UPDATE. Found this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41226122/url-hash-bang-prefix-instead-of-simple-hash-in-angular-1-6

What do you think a better solution is - apply the config or adjust the code to deal with ! ?

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Hi everybody,

My colleague recently upgraded our AngularJS libraries to this version

/**
 * @license AngularJS v1.6.4
 * (c) 2010-2017 Google, Inc. http://angularjs.org
 * License: MIT
 */

This was a huge undertaking as there were some breaking changes.

One of the problem, however, seems to be in the routing.

We used to have routes that resolved to this

http://localhost:9753/SiriuswareControl/Specials/SpecialGroups#/edit/2

and now they are resolving to this

http://localhost:9753/SiriuswareControl/Specials/SpecialGroups#!/edit/2

Please note the extra ! before edit in the second variation.

As a result this code doesn't work anymore:

scope.editDeepLink = function () {
                  
                    var linkUrl = scope.dropdownSettings.routePath;

                    // check if dropdown is to be linked to items
                    if (angular.isDefined(scope.dropdownModel.value)
                        && angular.isDefined(scope.dropdownModel.value.departmeId)
                        && angular.isDefined(scope.dropdownModel.value.categoryId)
                        && angular.isDefined(scope.dropdownModel.value.itemId)) {
                        linkUrl += scope.dropdownModel.value.departmeId;
                        linkUrl += '/' + scope.dropdownModel.value.categoryId;
                        linkUrl += '/' + scope.dropdownModel.value.itemId;
                        //scope.dropdownModel.value = null;
                    }
                    else {
                        linkUrl += scope.dropdownModel.key;
                    };

                    //scope.toggleShowButtons();
                    if (scope.showEdit) {
                        window.open(linkUrl, '_blank');
                    };
                };

when we have our routePath defined as

 routePath: urlProtocolAndPath + "Items/BlackoutTemplates#/edit/"

Of course, one solution could be to adjust our directive to replace # with #! and hopefully it should work. Also fix couple of places where we used similar approach to open a new window.

The question is - do we need to apply this solution or there is some setting that can alter the behavior and make it use paths without extra ! ?

Thanks a lot in advance.