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

I was stuck in a similar way and found that the Template.parentData() approach suggested in other answers currently doesn't work within event handlers (see https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/5491). User Lirbank posted this simple workaround:

Pass the data from the outer context to an html element in the inner context, in the same template:

{{#each companies}}
  {{#each employees}}
    Do something
  {{/each}}
{{/each}}

Now the company ID can be accessed from the event handler with something like

$(event.currentTarget).attr('companyId')