Get the context, angular, ui-router, nothing special, a root view built with 3 named ui-views.
so in index.html we have
You could use the following to go to a specific route without reloading the views:
$state.go('.', {parm1: 1}, {notify: false});
The last object literal represents the options which you can pass along to go. If you set notify to false, this will actually prevent the controllers from being reinitialized. The . at the beginning is the absolute state name or relative state path you wanna go to.
The important thing is the notify though.
I think that using "Dynamic params" is now a better solution:
When dynamic is true, changes to the parameter value will not cause the state to be entered/exited. The resolves will not be re-fetched, nor will views be reloaded.
$stateProvider.state('search', {
url: '/search?city&startDate&endDate',
templateUrl: 'some/url/template.html',
params: {
city: {
value: 'Boston',
dynamic: true
}
}
}
and then:
$state.go('.', {city: 'London'});
https://ui-router.github.io/ng1/docs/latest/interfaces/params.paramdeclaration.html#dynamic https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/issues/2709
Quoting @christopherthielen from https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/issues/1758#issuecomment-205060258:
using notify: false is almost never a good idea, and is now deprecated. Use reloadOnSearch if you must.
You can also try dynamic parameters in the 1.0 version (currently 1.0.0-alpha.3). In your state, configure a parameter as dynamic and implement the uiOnParamsChanged callback :
.state('foo', { url: '/:fooId', params: { fooId: { dynamic: true } }, controller: function() { this.uiOnParamsChanged = function(changedParams, $transition$) { // do something with the changed params // you can inspect $transition$ to see the what triggered the dynamic params change. } } });
For a demo, have a look at this plunker: http://plnkr.co/edit/T2scUAq0ljnZhPqkIshB?p=preview