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	"key": "TIMOB-14795",
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			"name": "Fixed"
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		"created": "2013-07-21T18:42:40.000+0000",
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						"summary": "APIDoc: 'parent' property absent from Ti.UI.View",
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						"summary": "getParent() doesn't listed in the docs",
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			"name": "hknoechel",
			"key": "hansknoechel",
			"displayName": "Hans Knöchel",
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			"description": "The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are closed can be reopened.",
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		"description": "Only via Q&A I discovered I can use {{.parent}} and {{.getParent()}} to get the parent of any view. This is extremely useful in many cases.\r\n\r\nIs there are reason for not documenting these? Is it not stable or going to be deprecated soon for another reason?\r\n\r\nIf not, please document it :)",
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		"flagged": false,
		"summary": "TiAPI: Add \"parent\" property for all Ti.UI.View subclasses",
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			"name": "fokkezb",
			"key": "fokke",
			"displayName": "Fokke Zandbergen",
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			"name": "fokkezb",
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			"displayName": "Fokke Zandbergen",
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				{
					"id": "265614",
					"author": {
						"name": "bhatfield",
						"key": "bhatfield",
						"displayName": "Benjamin Hatfield",
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						"timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles"
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					"body": "Talked with development.  This property is not meant to be exposed as a public API.  Tested on iOS and Android and the behavior is different.",
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						"name": "bhatfield",
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					"created": "2013-08-08T19:42:48.000+0000",
					"updated": "2013-08-08T19:42:48.000+0000"
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						"name": "fokkezb",
						"key": "fokke",
						"displayName": "Fokke Zandbergen",
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					"body": "So, why not make it behave the same? Being able to get the parent of an element can be quite useful? Should I open another ticket to request the feature to be made solid and public?",
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					"created": "2013-08-09T06:49:09.000+0000",
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					"id": "265716",
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						"name": "bhatfield",
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						"displayName": "Benjamin Hatfield",
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					"body": "Hi [~fokke],\n\nI moved the ticket over to TIMOB as a new feature request.\n\nCould you please provide an explanation of why you want this feature and the expected behavior for the development team?\n\nThanks.",
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					"created": "2013-08-09T16:20:13.000+0000",
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					"body": "The expected behavior is for {{view.parent}} and {{view.getParent()}} to return the parent view.\r\n\r\n{code}\r\nvar viewOne = Ti.UI.createView();\r\nvar viewTwo = Ti.UI.createView();\r\n\r\nviewOne.add(viewTwo);\r\n\r\nassert(viewOne.parent === viewTwo);\r\n{code}\r\n\r\nAn example use case is removing a view in an Alloy controller. Without {{.parent}} I need to assign an {{id}} to the parent view. With, I can just do {{$.myView.parent.remove($.myView);}}\r\n\r\nWhich makes me think another method that might make sense would be: {{removeFromParent()}}, basically doing the above? \r\n",
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					"created": "2013-08-14T11:46:35.000+0000",
					"updated": "2017-03-29T13:58:12.000+0000"
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				{
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					"author": {
						"name": "cbarber",
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						"displayName": "Chris Barber",
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					"body": "We should add this. It makes tons of sense. Mobile Web had this.",
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					"created": "2016-08-30T19:37:41.000+0000",
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						"key": "uzbbert",
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					"body": "+1 this is basic functionality",
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					"created": "2017-03-09T15:45:00.000+0000",
					"updated": "2017-03-09T15:45:00.000+0000"
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					"id": "416132",
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						"name": "icecandy",
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						"displayName": "Simon Buckingham",
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					"body": "+1 This should be a fundamental option.  Like a lot of other things in Ti, basic UI often seems neglected.\r\nAs Fokke comments it can be useful, because otherwise one has to always pass references to the parent view into the controller in question.",
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					"body": "We will do it. And if there are parity-gaps, we should discuss them in this ticket. I tested it with iOS and it works just as expected, going directly from the managed view-proxy. I am wondering how Android could behave different here (maybe [~gmathews] has some input here). Also, does Windows support this, [~kiguchi]? Making this for 7.0.0 should be doable, let me know your thoughts! :-)\r\n\r\n*EDIT*: Tested with Android and it works just fine as well. Let's do this!\r\n\r\n*EDIT 2*: [This branch|https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/compare/master...hansemannn:TIMOB-14795?expand=1] is waiting to be PR'd once we have a decision.",
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					"body": "Yes!",
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						"name": "kiguchi",
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					"body": "[~hknoechel] {{View.parent}} property and {{get/setParent}} functions are already supported on Windows. We also have unit tests: [ti.ui.view.test.js#L452|https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile_windows/blob/master/Examples/NMocha/src/Assets/ti.ui.view.test.js#L452]",
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					"created": "2017-07-26T14:52:12.000+0000",
					"updated": "2017-07-26T14:52:12.000+0000"
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					"id": "424791",
					"author": {
						"name": "hknoechel",
						"key": "hansknoechel",
						"displayName": "Hans Knöchel",
						"active": true,
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					"body": "Great! Than we should add more unit-tests to the PR and merge it in I guess.",
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					"body": "Assigning to Gary to clarify how Android handles this. As iOS and Windows do handle it already, we may close this if Android passes as well.",
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					"body": "Android also has this implemented, here's a quick test case. The one above is incorrect:\r\n\r\n{code:js}\r\nvar a = Ti.UI.createView(),\r\n    b = Ti.UI.createView();\r\n\r\na.add(b);\r\n\r\nalert(b.parent === a); // true\r\n{code}\r\n\r\nWe only need to add {{parent}} to our docs",
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						"displayName": "Abir Mukherjee",
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					"body": "I verified the test case on Android; per comments, I'll close the ticket.",
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