Accessing parent context in Meteor templates and template helpers

Question

I\'m running into a template context situation that I\'m having a hard time finding a way around.

Here\'s the template in question:

Answer 1

It's not particularly pretty, but I've done something like this:

// and in the js:
Template.forLoop.helpers({
    augmentedParticipants: function() {
        var self = this;
        return _.map(self.participants,function(p) {
            p.parent = self;
            return p;
        });
    }
});

It's similar to the approach that AVGP suggested, but augments the data at the helper level instead of the db level, which I think is a little lighter-weight.

If you get fancy, you could try to write a Handlebars block helper eachWithParent that would abstract this functionality. Meteor's extensions to handlebars are documented here: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Handlebars