Services are your friend. Any state that needs to be maintained between views and controllers can be done in services. Worst-case you can use $rootScope. Do not post.
Also, simplify. If you are just learning Angular, then why make it so complicated to begin? On Monday, March 31, 2014 4:25:36 PM UTC-6, Ian Durkan wrote: > > to clarify - I need to convey the info from the quick search form to the > controller governing an advanced query page's partial. > > On Monday, March 31, 2014 6:24:25 PM UTC-4, Ian Durkan wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I'm very new to Angular and trying to use it to put together the frontend >> for a fairly complicated new application. The application features a >> navbar w/ dropdowns powered by Angular UI Bootstrap - most navbar buttons >> and dropdown items lead to separate Angular routes, each handled by its own >> controller and partials. The partials are displayed in a view between the >> navbar and a header, etc etc. One dropdown is the Search dropdown, with >> several items linking to three advanced search pages, each for searching on >> one of three business entity types - "Widgets", "Widget Sets", and "Widget >> Users"... Each advanced search page has a number of filters and options >> for narrowing down a query so the user can find what they need within the >> entity type for that page. >> >> The navbar also includes a "quick search" popover - it has a text string >> field, radio buttons for selecting which business entity type to search, >> and a big green "Search" button. Making this quick search thing work is >> where I'm having trouble. So user types a string, picks the "Widgets" >> entity radio button and clicks "Search". >> >> After clicking the Send button I want to send the browser to the >> "Widgets" Advanced Search page and filter based on the text string from the >> popover. >> >> How do I make Angular programatically switch to the proper Advanced >> Search page *while conveying the information from the quick search >> popover form?* I can't figure out how to do this. Thanks for your help. >> >> Or do I just need to give up and do an old-fashioned form POST -> >> redirect to results page?? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
