Ionic: reloading current child state from side menu causes loss of header - ionic-framework

Question

I'm creating a simple Ionic menu app and I would like to reload the current state from the side menu.Here's a Plunkr to illustrate the problem.
In the 'Search' state, the current time is displayed. The desired behavior is the following: when I click 'Search' from the side menu, the time is refreshed, i.e. the controller is reloaded. This should happen even when I'm already on the Search page. In reality, the controller is of course much more complex, but this example is enough to illustrate the problem.
I started from the ionic 'menu' starter template. To be able to reload the state, I changed two things:
disabled view caching in app.js config function: $ionicConfigProvider.views.maxCache(0);
In menu.html, I'm passing ui-sref-opts to explicitly reload the state:
ui-sref="app.search" ui-sref-opts="{reload: true}"
The result is that the time is indeed updated, however, the header of the view is gone.
Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

try something like this in the routing:
.state('tab.home', {
url: '/home',
cache: false, //<-- FORCE TO CLEAR CACHE
views: {
'tab-home': {
templateUrl: 'templates/home/home.html',
controller: 'HomeController'
}
}
})

Answer 2

You can broadcast an event to achieve that. But if you want to keep it like that, you could use a parameter and it would be all right because basically the one in control of the date var is your menu and not your state.
So you could do this:
app.js
.state('app.search', {
url: "/search",
params:{
date: new Date()
},
views: {
'menuContent' :{
templateUrl: "search.html",
controller: 'SearchCtrl'
}
}
})
Menu item
<ion-item nav-clear menu-close ui-sref="app.search({date: updateDate()})">
Search
</ion-item>
controllers.js (App controller or specific menu controller)
.controller('AppCtrl', function($scope) {
$scope.updateDate = updateDate;
function updateDate(){
return new Date();
}
})
controllers.js
.controller('SearchCtrl', function($scope, $stateParams) {
$scope.now = $stateParams.date;
})