This question seems so obvious I almost feel silly asking, but after searching everywhere I just can't seem to find it.

In CK there is a clear parent/child relationship between a Location and the Cells it contains.

How can I programmatically get a list of cells for a given location?

(GetParentCell and GetCurrentLocation seem to be of limited use. And there doesn't even seem to be a function to get the Location of a given Cell.)

I'm certain I'm missing something simple and obvious. Thanks in advance for your help.

Find something inside the celly of the wanted location and use...

http://www.creationkit.com/HasRefType_-_Location on them? Or maybe this, if loaded area equals to location http://www.creationkit.com/IsAttached_-_Cell

I've tried ALL NIGHT working out how to do this.

And HasRefType is used for aliases that have a LocationRefType assigned to them. IsAttached wont return the location attached, but the cell.

Basically what we need is a bool CellHasLocation() or GetLocationOfCell()

Looking inside the locations there's a cell tab. Can't you just adress them somehow?

That's the thing and what the OP has pointed out. The link between the two is certainly there, but that same link isn't in papyrus.

You can't do GetParentCell().IsInLocation() either.

There's probably a way, but not a very obvious and friendly way.

GetParentCell tells me it's fired on ObjectReference, did you tried...

GetParentCell().GetBaseObject().IsInLocation()

...or similar. Also found this...

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SkyrimCKPublic/discussions/0/882962698531824096/?l=german

https://coderwall.com/p/kfs8ka

Just figured...cells are forms so you can define them as property... so probably as array[] as well

Cell Property xxx_cell Auto

...then use http://www.creationkit.com/GetCurrentLocation_-_ObjectReference on the property?

GetCurrentLocation only works on specific object references, so you can't use it on a cell. I haven't been able to find any useful functions to figure out this relationship either. However, if the cells are listed in the Creation Kit, that data is probably stored somewhere, it just hasn't been exposed to papyrus yet by SKSE.