Access service outside of controller

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I'm trying to hide and show menu items based on a value stored inside of a service. It's a qnd Session-Service that logs the user in, based on an accessToken stored in $cookies.accessToken:

app.service('Session', function ($cookies, $location) {
  var Session = {
    isLoggedIn: !! $cookies.accessToken,
    accessToken: $cookies.accessToken,

    login: function (token, redirectTo) {
      this.accessToken = token;
      this.isLoggedIn = true;

      if (redirectTo) {
        $location.path(redirectTo);
      }
    },
    logout: function () {
      this.accessToken = false;
      this.isLoggedIn = false;
    }
  };

  if (Session.accessToken) {
    Session.login(Session.accessToken)
  }

  return Session;
});

I currently have 3 controllers and use the ngView directive to show the appropriate partials. However, as you can imagine, I don't want either the "log out" or the "auth" link to show up:

  <div class="container">
    <nav>
      <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
        <li><a href="#/public">public</a></li>
        <li><a href="#/logout">log out</a></li>
        <li><a href="#/auth">auth</a></li>
      </ul>
    </nav>

    <div ng-view></div>
  </div>

I tried ng-hide="Session.isLoggedIn" but that didn't work out. So what's the right way to do what I'm trying to do?

If you store the isLoggedIn as a scope's property ngHide should work as expected. — F Lekschas, Mar 25 '13 at 21:16
Tried that… but as expected the scope per controller is inside the `
[…]
`. So I can't access scope-properties outside of it. — nocksock, Mar 25 '13 at 21:20
Okay maybe I don't get your problem. I would inject the service in the controller that handles the view (than you should be able to access it), store whether there the user is logged in or not and display the appropriate navigation options. :) — F Lekschas, Mar 25 '13 at 21:50
The Navigation is outside of the controller's scope, that's the problem :/ — nocksock, Mar 25 '13 at 22:30
Then put a controller on your navigation... See [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/14206567/259038). — Josh David Miller, Mar 25 '13 at 23:26
@JoshDavidMiller Head -> Table. Thanks! (Could you rephrase this as an answer so that I can mark it as such?) — nocksock, Mar 26 '13 at 08:48

Access service outside of controller

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