Is there a way to know if side-menu expose aside is open

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I want to perform different actions if the side menu is expose aside (tablet) or not (smarphone).
Indeed I have a list of items; when I’m on smartphone the click on an item change the page, but when I’m on tablet I just want to display informations on aside menu.

Is there a programmatically way to know if the aside menu is open ?

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Using the $ionicSideMenuDelegate you can get if the sidemenu is open or not
http://ionicframework.com/docs/api/service/$ionicSideMenuDelegate/

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I know but the problem is the function $ionicSideMenuDelegate.$getByHandle(‘my-handle’).isOpen() always respond false even if the side menu is open with expose aside directive…

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Isn’t using isOpen() easier?

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What do you mean by isOpen() easier ?
I already use this function

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Ow sorry, I didn’t see that.

Do you have 1 or 2 sidemenus in your app?
If 1: try it without $getByHandle

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I have 2 sidemenus in the app.
One for the navigation the other for list details.

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Well, I’m out of ideas.
Hopefully somebody else can help you with that.
Calling somebody of the Ionic team might help. This could possibly be a bug

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Ok, thanks for all :blush:

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You could pass $exposeAside.active to a function that determines which action to take:

<a ng-click="clickedItem($exposeAside.active)" class="item" menu-close>Check-in</a>

See this codepen

I’m not sure if it is a bug or not, but I feel like using $ionicSideMenuDelegate.isOpen() should return true when exposeAside is active. You could submit an issue for it and the Ionic team can determine if it is.

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Hey brandyshea,

Your solution with $exposeAside.active works like a charm :smiley: !

I’m agree with you, the $ionicSideMenuDelegate.isOpen() shoud return true when expose aside is active. But maybe Ionic want to differenciate an open state and expose aside state… don’t know.

Thank’s a lot

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