UI-Router - Change $state without rerender/reload of the page - angularjs

Question

I've been looking at these pages (1, 2, 3). I basically want to change my $state, but I don't want the page to reload.
I am currently in the page /schedules/2/4/2014, and I want to go into edit mode when I click a button and have the URL become /schedules/2/4/2014/edit.
My edit state is simply $scope.isEdit = true, so there is no point of reloading the whole page. However, I do want the $state and/or url to change so that if the user refreshses the page, it starts in the edit mode.
What can I do?

Answer 1

For this problem, you can just create a child state that has neither templateUrl nor controller, and advance between states normally:
// UPDATED
$stateProvider
.state('schedules', {
url: "/schedules/:day/:month/:year",
templateUrl: 'schedules.html',
abstract: true, // make this abstract
controller: function($scope, $state, $stateParams) {
$scope.schedDate = moment($stateParams.year + '-' +
$stateParams.month + '-' +
$stateParams.day);
$scope.isEdit = false;
$scope.gotoEdit = function() {
$scope.isEdit = true;
$state.go('schedules.edit');
};
$scope.gotoView = function() {
$scope.isEdit = false;
$state.go('schedules.view');
};
},
resolve: {...}
})
.state('schedules.view', { // added view mode
url: "/view"
})
.state('schedules.edit', { // both children share controller above
url: "/edit"
});
An important concept here is that, in ui-router, when the application is in a particular state—when a state is "active"—all of its ancestor states are implicitly active as well.
So, in this case,
when your application advances from view mode to edit mode, its parent state schedules (along with its templateUrl, controller and even resolve) will still be retained.
since ancestor states are implicitly activated, even if the child state is being refreshed (or loaded directly from a bookmark), the page will still render correctly.

Answer 2

REF: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/Quick-Reference#statetransitiontoto-toparams--options
$state.transitionTo('yourState', params, {notify: false});

Answer 3

Adding my answer because I think it's different enough from the accepted answer and may be useful to others:
I had two states, begin and view, with a bunch of optional parameters being synced with the URL for view, like so:
$stateProvider
.state('begin',
{
url: '/',
template: '<app-element></app-element>'
})
.state('view',
{
url: '/View?param1&param2&...&paramN',
template: '<app-element></app-element>'
params: {
param1: {
value: null,
squash: true
},
...
}
});
The link function for <app-element> would run any time I tried to sync the parameters using $state.go. Using {notify: false, reload: false} did not work for me. The link function still ran each time. I'm on 0.2 so dynamic isn't an available param option, either. I followed #b0nyb0y's suggestion and turned it into a parent/child relationship, which worked:
$stateProvider
.state('app',
{
url: '/',
template: '<app-element></app-element>'
})
.state('app.view',
{
url: 'View?param1&param2&...&paramN',
params: {
param1: {
value: null,
squash: true
},
...
}
});