external-scopes no longer works in ui-grid

Question

I am upgrading the ui-grid from v3.0.0-RC.18 to v3.0.0-rc.20-76029e7 and suddenly the external-scopes attribute stops working. What is the alternative to it?

Answer 1

externalScopes was removed in RC 19. You can read the notes here: https://github.com/angular-ui/ng-grid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#breaking-changes

Instead, you can use appScope, which has been docoumented here: http://ui-grid.info/docs/#/tutorial/305_appScope

The grid gets a property called appScope added to it that simply references its parent scope, so you don't have to pass the grid any options. If you have a function named click() on your controller's scope you can access it in your cell templates and whatnot via grid.appScope.click().