controller $scope about ocmodal HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi. It is not a bug (it's a feature!).
You can use the same controller for different parts of your application, but the $scope injected by angular won't be the same, you will have 2 distinct instances of the controller.

In this case, your first controller is using a local $scope, and the controller in the modal is using a new scope that is generated for the modal only (and isolated scope).

If you want to share variables from another scope, you will need to use the init parameter when you open the modal. All init variables will extend the modal scope (and be in the $init parameter of the controller as well), it should then work as you expect.

You could also use $rootScope that is unique everywhere in your application because it is the root of all scopes.

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Ah! I see; I was assuming that the purpose of referencing a ctrl was to connect to the scoped items within it, so I assumed it would not create a new instance of the controller. As for $init, that makes sense. I followed the outline in the ocModal documentation, but when I tried to inject the $init dependency into my controller I ran into an 'unknown provider' issue. For now I'm just relying on $rootScope, but thank you for the thorough explanation!

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