First, thank you for writing this library.

We have an ng-repeater with (n) columns wide and a few rows. Each column has an input element that can be updated, thus it needs validation. When we navigate to a new route and then either click the browsers back button and or ng-click back to the route the validation occurs but the div below does not show.

We have tried to use the validation-error-to directive and explicitly added a div in hopes that this would be a work around but it was not a successful attempt.

Below I have made a plunker that begins on the "Home" view then navigates to "People" with a repeater and then on to an "Away" route. If you run the plunker and you click to the Away route and then go back you will notice when you clear out the input field that the validation message does not show. However the validation message will show before you $state.go to another route.

https://plnkr.co/edit/AvazGJNmbjR1x2T4RMfS

While making the plunker and simply using window.location.href = 'http://www.google.com'; I was able to navigate back and I believe the validation message fired.

This leads me to wonder if the combination of angular-ui-router with the ghiscoding-validation is the issue?