Angular Material Dialog not closing after navigation

Question

I\'m working on an application that shows an overview of entities in a datatable. Every entity has linked entities that are shown as \'xxx linked entities\' in a column. When th

Answer 1

There were no errors or warnings but closeOnNavigation: true started working for me only after adding these providers to the module with the dialog:

import { Location, LocationStrategy, PathLocationStrategy, APP_BASE_HREF } from "@angular/common";

...
    providers: [
        Location,
        { provide: LocationStrategy, useClass: PathLocationStrategy },
        { provide: APP_BASE_HREF, useValue: '/' }
    ]
...

I suspect that in my case this was because of using UI-Router and never initializing the built in Angular router before.