I currently have a problem where I have a application that has 4 ion tabs of which they each have their own history stack. I am now having a problem where i navigate from say tab A => B, tab B is moved to inner page of tab B, but there is no way of navigating back and resetting the history on tab B so that when I go back to tab A I can reset tab B's history to the root of tab B.
If you get you right you want to clear the navigation stack within a tab when changing tabs? So have a look at the following approach:
<ion tab> has a callback when deselecting. You can use this to call a function in your controller which clears the history. So your html page looks for example like this:
<ion-tab title="xyz" href="#/tab/whatever" on-deselect="clearHistory()">
...
</ion-tab>
And in your controller define the following coresponding function:
.controller('TestCtrl', function($scope, $ionicHistory) {
$scope.clearHistory = function() {
$ionicHistory.clearHistory();
}
})
This clears this navigation stack of the current tab before leaving. I tested it with the ionic tabs starter templates and it worked for me.
I hope this was your issue. If not, leave me a comment and I will look again into it.