How do i get an option from a parent widget into an embedded widget?

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I have a widget that has an option, called "message".   In one place, I have embedded this widget in another widget. I have created an option called "message" on the parent widget.

How do i link the parent widget's option to the embedded widget?

The solution is this:

function(spUtil) { /* widget controller */   
   var c = this;   
   spUtil.get("custom-search-page", {message: c.options.message}).then(function(response) {   
   c.data.parentMessage = response.options.incident_message;   
   c.data.parentMessageFlag = 'true';   
   });   
} 

I'm not positive i understand exactly what is happening, but it's behaving the way i want it to.

The widget im using is embedded sometimes, and not at other times. The widget is a button with a string of text above it. I set the value of that string with instance options. I wanted to be able to set that text even when it's embedded in this widget.

from what i understand, the SPutil gets the message i ask for from the widget i specify, and returns a promise. When the promise comes back, i set a data paramenter to equal the response field, and set a flag to true.

in my server script i check to see if the flag is true. if it is, I display the parent message. otherwise i use the one local to the widget.

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Andrew,

I'm no AngularJS expert, but have you tried using a $rootScope property?

You might also be able to use $on and $broadcast to communicate between the two widgets. I did something like that here:

Live Coding Happy Hour Recap 2017-03-03: Inter widget communications

[Community Alums]

There's a way to use spUtil to do this, but I don't know what it is. That's what i'm looking for.

[Chuck Tomasi]

Perhaps nathanfirth knows the spUtil method...

[Community Alums]

You know, I was going to tag him, but I do so often...