Should it? I wasn't sure about that. I thought it should be used by the parent 
as well as the children, but are you saying I should try and set it up 
differently?

I could set up a parentReportCtrl and then have the children share reportCtrl 
but I'm not sure if that's the way I should set it up or not.

On Nov 27, 2014, at 6:45 PM, Michael Cranston 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Why is reportCtrl being used by new-report and new-report.first? Shouldn't it 
> only be used by one?  
> 
> On Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:42:39 UTC-5, Ben Nelson wrote:
> The reportCtrl should be shared between all seven, though I don't know if I 
> set it up correctly. I'm kind of new to ui-router so some of this is still 
> magic to me. From what I can tell I just define the controller option in the 
> object I pass to the state as the same and it should be sharing the 
> variables. Though when I update part of the form and then move to another 
> state and try to display that ng-model that was updated I don't see anything, 
> and if I go back to the original state it just defaults to the default state 
> for the ng-model in question.
> 
> Hope that makes sense.
> 
> On Thursday, November 27, 2014 6:39:58 PM UTC-8, Michael Cranston wrote:
> Do you have a parent controller of these 7 states that can remember the data 
> along the way? Or is that a shared service between the controllers?
> 
> On Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:31:36 UTC-5, Ben Nelson wrote:
> So I have a route setup like the following:
> 'use strict';
> 
> module.exports = function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
>   // For any unmatched url, redirect to /state1
>   $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');
> 
>   // Now set up the states
>   $stateProvider
>     .state('index', {
>       url: '/',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/index.html'
>     })
>     .state('new-report', {
>       url: '/new',
>       abstract:true,
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.html',
>       deepStateRedirect: true,
>       sticky: true,
>       controller: 'reportCtrl'
>     })
>     .state('new-report.first', {
>       url: '',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.first.html',
>       controller: 'reportCtrl'
>     })
>     .state('new-report.second', {
>       url: '',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.second.html'
>     })
>     .state('new-report.third', {
>       url: '',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.third.html'
>     })
>     .state('new-report.fourth', {
>       url: '',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.fourth.html'
>     })
>     .state('new-report.fifth', {
>       url: '',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.fifth.html'
>     })
>     .state('new-report.sixth', {
>       url: '',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.sixth.html'
>     })
>     .state('new-report.seventh', {
>       url: '',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.seventh.html'
>     })
>     .state('new-report.complete', {
>       url: '',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/new-report.complete.html'
>     })
>     .state('my-reports', {
>       url: '/reports',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/my-reports.html'
>     })
>     .state('my-settings', {
>       url: '/settings',
>       templateUrl: 'scripts/partials/my-settings.html'
>     });
> };
> 
> With a controller of:
> 'use strict';
> 
> module.exports = function($scope) {
>   $scope.report = {
>     incident_type: ''
>   };
>   
> };
> 
> 
> And a set of views like:
> <div ui-view='new-report'>
> 
>   <div class='side-panel'>
>     <h3> Incident Report </h3>
>     <div class='divisor text-lowercase white twentyonepx'>
>       <hr class='left' /> # <hr class='right' />
>     </div>
> 
>     <h3> 12&#8209;123456 </h3>
> 
>     <ol>
>       <hr />
>       <li><img ui-sref-active="active-first" class='first' /><a 
> ui-sref='new-report.first'>Type of Fire</a></li>
>       <li><img ui-sref-active="active-second" class='second' /><a 
> ui-sref='new-report.second'>Structure</a></li>
>       <li><img ui-sref-active="active-third" class='third' /><a 
> ui-sref='new-report.third'>Exposure</a></li>
>       <li><img ui-sref-active="active-fourth" class='fourth' /><a 
> ui-sref='new-report.fourth'>Symptoms</a></li>
>       <li><img ui-sref-active="active-fifth" class='fifth' /><a 
> ui-sref='new-report.fifth'>Chemicals</a></li>
>       <li><img ui-sref-active="active-sixth" class='sixth' /><a 
> ui-sref='new-report.sixth'>Medical Attention</a></li>
>       <li><img ui-sref-active="active-seventh" class='seventh' /><a 
> ui-sref='new-report.seventh'>E.M.S</a></li>
>     </ol>
> 
>     <div class='progress-section'>
>       <h3> Progress </h3>
>       <br/>
>       <div class="progress">
>         <div class="progress-bar progress-bar-striped active" 
> role="progressbar" aria-valuenow="60"
>               aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100" style="width: 60%;">
> 
>         </div>
>       </div>
>     </div>
> 
>     <div class='submit'>
>       <a href='#' class='submit-report'> Submit Report </a>
>     </div>
>   </div>
> 
>   <ng-include src="'scripts/partials/user-info.html'"> </ng-include>
> 
>   <div class='report'>
>     <ui-view></ui-view>
>   </div>
> </div>
> 
> 
> <div class='report-section first'>
>   <div class='header'>
>     <hr class='left left-rule'/> Part 1 - Type of Fire <hr class='right' />
>   </div>
> 
>   <div class='form-group'>
>     <div class='left-side'>
>     <div class='form-element'>
>       <label for='incident-date'>Date of Incident</label>
>       <datepicker></datepicker>
>     </div>
> 
>     <div class='form-element'>
>       <label for='incident-type'> Type of Fire </label>
>       <select class='form-control' name='incident-type' 
> ng-model='report.incident_type'>
>         <option> Chemical </option>
>         <option> Option 2 </option>
>       </select>
>     </div>
>   </div>
> 
>   <div class='right-side'>
>     <div class='form-element'>
>       <div class='form-group'>
>           <label for='incident-location'>Incident Location</label>
>           <input class='form-control' type='text' placeholder='Street' /><br/>
>           <input class='form-control' type='text' placeholder='City' /><br/>
>           <input class='form-control small' type='text' placeholder='County' 
> />
>           <input class='form-control small' type='text' placeholder='Zip' />
>         </div>
>       </div>
>     </div>
> 
>     <div class='bottom-btns'>
>       <a  ui-sref='new-report.second'>Next</a>
>     </div>
>   </div>
> </div>
> 
> My main app load point is set up like the following (I'm using gulp and 
> browserify to help with loading stuff):
> 'use strict';
> 
> //lib dependencies listed out
> var $ = require('jquery');
> var jQuery = $;
> var bootstrap = require('bootstrap');
> 
> //controllers
> var rootCtrl = require('./controllers/rootCtrl');
> var reportCtrl = require('./controllers/reportCtrl');
> 
> var ui_router = require('angular-ui-router');
> var ui_router_extras = require('ui-router-extras');
> 
> var routes = require('./routes');
> 
> var namespace = 'main';
> 
> var angular = require('angular');
> 
> var app = angular.module(namespace, [
>     // inject:modules start
>     'ui.router',
>     'ct.ui.router.extras'
>     // inject:modules end
> ])
> .controller('rootCtrl', ['$scope', rootCtrl])
> .controller('reportCtrl', ['$scope', reportCtrl])
> .config(routes);
> 
> 
> module.exports = app;
> 
> 
> I want to be able to go between different views of my multipart form using 
> ui-router since it is so SLICK. Only problem is that I can't get my variables 
> on the controller to persist between states. I've tried the ui-router-extras 
> but it hasn't helped, either I'm using it wrong or something else is going 
> wrong. Anyone have experience with this? Basically I want to be able to have 
> a form in 7 parts, each part represented as a state within ui-router with the 
> same controller for each. I want to be able to go back and forth throughout 
> the report process to each state. Each will update a scope variable 
> representing the overall report and at the end I'm going to use $http to post 
> it to my database.
> 
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