I have done this many time in pure angular.js with ng-router but dont know whats wrong with it here in ionic using ui-router
I want to have some $scope properties/objects on parent scope that i can read and modify from child scopes and they can reflect every where (without factory), so that refreshing between states doent loose data and i have common place to keep it
What i have tried:
I first tried whole app routes to be wrapped inside a div
<div ng-controller="appCtrl">
     <div ui-view></div>
 </div>
This doesn't helped so i made app state as an abstract state and controller and now all states inherit from it
.state('app', {
    url: "/app",
    abstract: true,
    controller : 'appCtrl',
    templateUrl: "templates/app.html"
  })
     .state('app.login', {
    url: "/login",
    parent:"app",
    //abstract: true,
    controller : 'loginCtrl',
    templateUrl: "templates/login.html"
  })
      .state('app.form', {
    url: "/form/:selectedForm",
    //abstract: true,
    //reload:true,
    parent:"app",
    controller : 'formCtrl',
    templateUrl: "templates/selected-form.html"
  })
Problem while trying:
Problem is that lets say i have a property $scope.selectedForm=21; on appCtrl , i can access it correctly(shows 21 in all states) but cant modify it ($scope.selectedForm=22;) it doesnt reflects back
Dummy cotrollers
appctrl(parent):
 .controller('appCtrl', function ($scope) {
        $scope.InspectedForms = [];
        $scope.currentForm= {}
        $scope.selectedForm=21;
    })
formCtrl(child):
 .controller('formCtrl', function ($scope, $stateParams, authService) {
             $scope.selectedForm=22;
});
