Sorry for the developer portal going down. Turns out the servers couldn't handle the 🔥*HOT*🔥 new article I just uploaded. Using

contextData

and

contextDataRequest

in your view, you can easily access data models and collections of parent views when you use

addChildView()

. https://developers.suitecommerce.com/access-model-and-collection-data-in-a-child-view-with-contextdata.html