self.children returns empty list

[gitkwarteng]

I have three components, i.e, receive-inventory, receive-search and receive-table. receive-search and receive-table are loaded as children of receive-inventory. calling a method from receive-search with parent.do_something() works. but looping through receive-inventory.children returns empty list. receive-inventory is loaded into a normal Django view. is there something am not doing right ?

what am actually trying to achieve is that, when an item is search with receive-search, the item is passed to the parent receive-inventory component and then, the item is passed to receive-table component to add to table list. is it possible for receive-search and receive-table to communicate directly without the parent or there's a better way to achieve this. thanks