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

here is a very simple and transparent alternative by just modifying parent state in ui router:

  .state('parent_state', {
    url: '/something/:param1/:param2',
    templateUrl: 'partials/something/parent_view.html',  // <- important
    controller: function($state, $stateParams){
      var params = angular.copy($state.params);
      if (params['param3'] === undefined) {
        params['param3'] = 'default_param3';
      }
      $state.go('parent_state.child', params) 
    }
  })

  .state('parent_state.child', {
    url: '/something/:param1/:param2/:param3',
    templateUrl: '....',  
    controller: '....'
  })