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Typing in exact URL to visit specific partial Angular using ui-router

Pretty new to Angular, I am sure I'm missing something obvious here. I am using ui-router.
I want to provide a link to my clients so that they can click the URL link and visit the web app with the appropriate partial. I also want to be able to pass in parameters. Here's how I approached this (kind of hokey). This is in my main controller:
var pNumber = $location.search().number;
if (!(pNumber == null || pNumber == "")){
$state.go('view-ticket');
}
Here is my app.js:
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
url: "/",
templateUrl: 'partials/welcome-screen.html',
controller: 'mainPageController'
})
.state('submit-ticket', {
url: "/submit-ticket",
templateUrl: 'partials/ticket-submit.html',
controller: 'TicketSystemTestCtrl'
})
.state('view-ticket', {
url: "/view",
templateUrl: "partials/ticket-central.html",
controller: 'TicketCentralCtrl'
})
The logic is this: If the URL contains a param 'number' inject ticket-central.html partial.
However, when I run this in the debugger, it seems the first part of the code got executed before it loads the welcome-screen.html partial. How to solve this?
EDIT: I am trying to type this into the URL: http://localhost/techsupport/view and I want it to load the ticket-central.html partial into the main view. However, it won't work.

if i understand correctly all you want to do is to provide a possibility to 'deep-link' to the 'view-ticket' state.
for this search params are not the ideal solution as they are optional, just use path variables:
.state('view-ticket', {
url: '/view/:ticketNumber,
template: 'partials/ticket-central.html',
controler: 'TicketCentralCtrl'
})
also don't use the $location service if you don't really have to, have a look at $stateParams
here is a small plunkr with a welcome and a ticket state
launch the preview in a separate window to see how the url changes - you can also refresh on each page and the correct state will be loaded
https://plnkr.co/edit/r3UcYbfwET0OVwkd77Rv

JavaScript | AngularJS | UI-Router: $urlRouterProvider Redirect With Parameters

The Problem...
The Implementer should have the ability to write simple redirects using $urlRouterProvider.when to invoke another state with the same, expected URL-parameters:
$urlRouterProvider.when('/hook/route', '/that/other/route');
This should provide the correct $sateParams needed for the target state. For example, if the URI /hook/route?token=X is called, the target state should have $stateParams.token === 'X' -- given that this parameter is configured within the $stateProvider ({... url: '/that/other/route?token' ...});
The conventional way [in Stackoverflow-land] looks like the following:
$urlRouterProvider
.when('/hook/route', redirect)
.otherwise('/');
function redirect($state, $stateParams) {
$state.go('app.otherState', { token: $stateParams.token });
}
This seems very overkill for a simple redirect-with-parameters action -- especially if many redirects are needed.
The answer I'll provide below shows a very-low-overhead approach, which unfortunately, has not been spot-lighted in other StackOverflow threads regarding this topic...

... Solution
Match your URI's parameters against those expected by your target state:
$urlRouterProvider
.when('/hook/route?token', '/route?token')
.otherwise('/');
Cheers!

AngularJS: Dynamic URL Prefix

I have a large angular app that lives at a URL like so:
http://myangularapp.com/app/index.html#/
The URL I intend on giving out will need a name injected into the URL as this one site will support multiple users.
So, without modifying any directory structure, I'd like to do:
http://myangularapp.com/app/bob/index.html#/
and also:
http://myangularapp.com/app/harry/index.html#/
All my controllers and functionality would ideally stay the same.
Super stumped on this one!

Use the $routeProvider service. You can define where urls go, like so.
$routeProvider.
when('/app/foo/bar/what/about/bob', {
templateUrl: 'app/bob/index.html', <---directory and url don't have to match
controller: 'bobController'
}).
when('/app/harry', { ...
})

AngularJS Router invoke function when certain URL is loaded initially

I am using angular router` to track the state of my web app like this:
when('/', {
controller: "AController",
templateUrl: "APanel.html"
}).
when('/subpage/:id', {
controller: "BController",
templateUrl: "BPanel.html"
}).
And I am using Angular Service to track some shared values:
app.service('stateService', function() {
this.someSwitch = false;
this.someLongDataArray = [x, y, z];
});
Currently, before changing path to \subpage\:id url from AController, I will assign new values to members of the service, so they can be referenced in subpages.
Now the question is, if user directly launching the subpage url \subpage\:id, or hit the refresh button on browser on subpage, BController will be invoked, and I will lost the values in the service which are supposed to be prepared by AController.
I am wondering what I should do in this case. is there any way I can get called when user launch the subpage directly, so I have a chance to prepare the data? (Maybe I can watch for html onload event, but not sure that's the best answer).
Thanks

It appears, BController is dependent on AController.
Ideally, Controller should not contain any data/dom manipulaton, state maintenance. It is simply a glue between view and the $scope model.
Being said so, you need not create any such dependency between controllers. The service can be invoked from both controllers.
OR
If indeed there is a requirement that APanel.html must be loaded/initialized before BPanel.html is loaded, then you must check for some flag in BContoller and redirect user to APanel.html.
like
if(<check some flag>){
$location.path('/');
}
But then you have to find the way to redirect the user again to BPanel.html. I guess this is not a recommended approach.

I am not sure I get your question completely. But if there is a possibility that the user might hit BPanel.html directly then you should do something like this.
if(serviceExists()){
//Do your usual Bcontroller stuff here if the services was initialized
}
else{
//Show a warning/error like "Oops, something is wrong go back to '/'" OR
// Initialize services in BController
}
This should be in your BController if initializing your service before BController is that important. You basically force people to stay on AController.

Pass URL to as $routeParam in AngularJS app

How can I pass actual URL (with slashes, commas, etc.) as a $routeParam to AngularJS App?
this will work:
http://paprikka.github.io/le-bat/#/preview/asdadasda
this won't:
http://paprikka.github.io/le-bat/#/preview/http://page.com
neither will this:
http://paprikka.github.io/le-bat/#/preview/http%3A%2F%2Fpage.com
or this:
http://paprikka.github.io/le-bat/#/preview/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpage.com
Details
AngularJS routing mechanism by its design does not allow to pass strings with slashes as query parameters. I can understand the reasoning behind this decision - we don't want to create a stateless server here.
However, there are still cases when using different separators or regular expressions in routes might be necessary.
I wanted to create an app that takes a url hash string parameter and loads its content to an iframe (link here). Routes are set up in pretty standard way (I'm using Coffeescript, but this snippet does not differ from pure js):
$routeProvider
.when('/preview/:src', {templateUrl: 'partials/preview.html',
controller: 'PreviewCtrl'})
.when('/preview', {templateUrl: 'partials/preview.html',
controller: 'PreviewCtrl'})
Of course, I can load url from hash before AngularJS gets bootstrapped and then pass it to the library, but it would be nice if I could also update current route parameter when changing data in scope - that's why I think it's much better not to avoid AngularJS API.

Using $routeProvider in Angular 1.2, you can pass in a url if it's at the end of the path by adding an asterik to the pattern. The following should work whether or not you URLComponentEncode the url.
The route:
angular.module('angularApp', ['ngRoute'])
.when('/frame/:picture_url*', {
templateUrl: 'views/frame.html',
controller: 'PictureFrame'
});
The controller:
.controller('PictureFrame', function($scope, $routeParams, $sce){
//whitelist the URL
$scope.picture_url = $sce.trustAsResourceUrl($routeParams.picture_url);
});
Then in your template:
<iframe ng-src="{{picture_url}}"></iframe>

Ok, I've managed to find a solution working with current stable version (#1.0.7).
Current way of handling this problem will involve $route-related events, parsing angular-incompatible urls on the fly and handling them via an additional service working in a similar way as $http interception.
You can see working code examples here: http://embed.plnkr.co/fIA2xj/preview
Main steps
pass an angular-incompatible url as usual, eg. go to site.com/url/http://site.com
listen to a $routeChangeStart event and extract correct url parameter for paths beginning with /url/
encode the correct url parameter to an angular-compatible form (in this particular case, I use base64). Don't use encodeURIComponent, because angular will treat as any other url
redirect to another route with your business logic, eg. site.com/parsed-url/BASE64_GOES_HERE
decode the URL in the controller and use it as usual :)
Code
Create angular app module as usual
angular.module('routes',[]).config([
'$routeProvider',
function($routeProvider){
$routeProvider
.when('/test', {templateUrl: 'test.html'})
// This one is important:
// We define a route that will be used internally and handle
// parameters with urls parsed by us via the URLInterceptor service
.when('/parsed-url/:url', {templateUrl: 'url.html', controller:'URLCtrl'})
.when('/', {redirectTo: '/test'})
.otherwise({templateUrl: '404.html'});
}
])
URL Interceptor service (singleton)
.service('URLInterceptor', function($rootScope, $location){
// We listen to $routeChangeStart event and intercept it if
// the path matches our url scheme. In this case, every route
// beginning with /url/ will be caught
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeStart', function(e, next, current){
// $location.path does change BEFORE actual routing happens,
// so in this case we get parsed new location object
// for free.
// To be hones, a better way of handling this case might be using
// $locationChangeStart event instead, but it would require us to parse urls
// manually.
var path = $location.path();
// check if string begins with '/url/'
var matcher = path.slice(0,5);
var cleanPath = '';
if (matcher === '/url/'){
// Yes it does, yay!
// Remove leading '/url/' to extract the actual parameter
cleanPath = path.slice(5);
// Encode our url to a safe version. We know that encodeURIComponent won't
// work either, so a good choice might be base64.
// I'm using https://code.google.com/p/javascriptbase64/downloads
$location.path('/parsed-url/' + Base64.encode(cleanPath));
// Prevent default event execution. Note that, it won't cancel related $location Events
e.preventDefault();
}
});
return {
decode: Base64.decode,
encode: Base64.encode
}
})
Controllers
// Main application controller
// We instantiate our URLInterceptor service here
.controller('AppCtrl',function($scope, $location, URLInterceptor){
$scope.navigateTo = function (path) {
$location.path('/url/' + path);
}
})
.controller('URLCtrl', function($scope, $routeParams, URLInterceptor){
$scope.url = URLInterceptor.decode($routeParams.url);
});
Two things you should remember:
Although I tried to create a solution as clean as possible, usually passing the data this way to angular isn't considered a good practice, so try not to use it unless you really need to.
You can handle this issue with only one route. I just find it cleaner this way.

I have a solution but I don't know if it will help you. From Angular documention http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$location $location has a function search(search, paramValue)
To pass the parameter:
parameter = encodeURIComponent url
$location.search({ yourURLParameter: parameter }).path('/preview')
To read the parameter:
url = decodeURIComponent $location.search().yourURLParameter
Of course you need to inject $location dependency

I have mixed search params with routes. Your search needs to come before your routes.. specifically for older browsers. I think ie7 blows up if its not url/?search/#/hash
Try this format:
domain.com/?my=params&another=param/#/my/hashes