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Answer : ng-true-value only accepts strings so you'll need to use a workaround. This has been a feature request for some time. In the meantime, you can do this: Create an ids object in the controller like: $scope.ids = {}; and change ng-model to reference a key in that object. You can use the default true/false checkbox values: <td><input type="checkbox" ng-model="ids[doc.provider.Id]"></td> Then you can loop over the keys in ids checking for true . Here is a fiddle I found that this directive provided the functionality I was looking for. The main problem I ran into with the more common solutions is that I have two arrays which I needed to store data compatible with a multi select list. The checklistModel directive provides this very basic functionality and works with multiple models. I will start by saying that I really don't like the options for doing this in angular. I can't even say that this is better than th...

Answer : Since you register your o n l i s t e n e r o n on listener on o n l i s t e n ero n rootScope, it doesn't get destroyed with the controller and next time you init the controller it gets created again. You should create your listener on controller scope $scope.$on('menuActivateActionPublish', function(event) {}); Be careful you avoid two instances of the controller means two event listeners, which means the method gets executed twice !! ( example: using twice 'ng-controller' ) To complement que1326 answer, as an example, if you are using ui-router and have something like .state('app.yourpage', { url:'yourPage', views: { 'content@': { templateUrl : 'views/yourPage.html', controller : 'YourController' } } }) and in yourPage.html you have a ng-controller="YourController as Ctrl" , th...