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I'd like to find a way to raise a backbone.js "event" without something having changed in the model or in the dom. For instance, I'm loading the Facebook SDK asynchronously. I'm subscribed to the auth.login event, and would like to send a message to my view that the user has logged in so it can re-render itself appropriately. My view looks similar to this: window.CreateItemView = Backbone.View.extend({ el: $('#content'), initialize: function() { this.render(); }, render: function() { // do something return this; }, setSignedRequest: function(signedRequest) { //do something with signedRequest } }); In my facebook code, I do this: FB.Event.subscribe('auth.login', function(response){ if (response.status === 'connected') { var uid = response.authResponse.userID; var accessToken = response.authResponse.accessToken; window.signedRequest = response.authResponse.signedRequest; if (window.view && window.view.setSignedRequest) { window.view.setSignedRequest(window.signedRequest); } } }); However, while window.view exists, it cannot see the setSignedRequest method. I've ensured that my scripts are loading in the correct order. Strangely I have this same code on a different page albeit a different View object and it works fine. I haven't seen any difference that would account for this. A better solution would be to raise some sort of event and have the view listen for it. However, I don't want to utilize the change event on the model as the signedRequest shouldn't be a property of the model. Is there a better way of accomplishing this?

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