>Looks as if you're using angular-ui. If that's the case wouldn't a nested state/view be a good solution.

No, the grids are not identical.

>P.S. Don't like the $parent.$parent part. If's inheritantly (no pun intended) fragile since it depends on a known/fixed scope hierarchy....

I don't like it either, but it was not my code, so I left it as is. I did figure out a solution. I declared the function at the top of the file and had to pass $scope, $rootScope and $state to it and then I was just calling this function 3 times (which I don't like either, but can live with it).