Two views in one AngularUI Router state sharing scope

Question

I am pretty new to the AngularUI Router and would like the use it for the following scenario:

The layout common to all pages includes a top navbar c

Answer 1

$scope is not the model, its a reference to a model, glue in between the data & the view. If $scopes in two, or more, controllers need to share one model/state/data use a singleton object instance by registering a angular service. That one service/factory can be injected into as many controllers as you like, and then everything can work off that one source of truth.

Heres a demo of 1 factory linking $scopes in navbar & body with ui-router http://plnkr.co/edit/P2UudS?p=preview (left tab only)

ui-router (viewC is navbar):

$stateProvider
.state('left', {
  url: "/",
  views: {
    "viewA": {
      controller: 'LeftTabACtrl',
      template: 'Left Tab, index.viewA 
' +
                '' +
                '
selected2.data: {{selected2.data}}
'
    },
    {...},
    "viewC": {
      controller: 'NavbarCtrl',
      template: 'Left Tab, index.viewC 
' +
                '' +
                '
selected.data: {{selected.data}}'
    }
  }
})

Factory & Controllers:

app.factory('uiFieldState', function () {
    return {uiObject: {data: null}}
});

app.controller('NavbarCtrl', ['$scope', 'uiFieldState', '$stateParams', '$state',
    function($scope, uiFieldState, $stateParams, $state) {
        $scope.selected = uiFieldState.uiObject;
    }
]);

app.controller('LeftTabACtrl', ['$scope', 'uiFieldState', '$stateParams', '$state',
    function($scope, uiFieldState, $stateParams, $state) {
        $scope.selected2 = uiFieldState.uiObject;
    }
]);

As you can see, the factory object {uiObject: {data: null}} is injected into the controller with uiFieldState & then its simply $scope.selected = uiFieldState.uiObject; for connecting the factory to the scope ng-model="selected.data" .`