Directing the user to a child state when they are transitioning to its parent state using UI-Router

Question

Consider the following:

.state(\'manager.staffList\', {url:\'^/staff?alpha\', templateUrl: \'views/staff.list.html\', data:{activeMenu: \'staff\'}, controlle         


        

Answer 1

For setting default child view , check this example . On clicking Route 1 load default state route1.list

// For any unmatched url, send to /route1
$stateProvider
  .state('route1', {
      url: "/route1",
      abstract:true ,
      templateUrl: "route1.html"
  })
  .state('route1.list', {
      url: '',
      templateUrl: "route1.list.html",
      controller: function($scope){
        $scope.items = ["A", "List", "Of", "Items"];
      }
  })
  .state('route1.desc', {
      url: "/desc",
      templateUrl: "route1.desc.html",
      controller: function($scope){
        $scope.items = [];
      }
  })
  .state('route2', {
    url: "/route2",
    templateUrl: "route2.html"
  })
  .state('route2.list', {
    url: "/list",
    templateUrl: "route2.list.html",
    controller: function($scope){
      $scope.things = ["A", "Set", "Of", "Things"];
    }
  })