I just spent 2 hours in finding a solution. In case anybody else needs this:
I want to filter a list. Not all the time, but conditional. In my case only if a checkbox is checked. If experimented with if and various custom filter solutions.
This is the very simple solution using unique from the ui.utils package:
HTML
<html> <head> <script src="ui-utils/ui-utils.min.js"></script> </head> <body> <input type="checkbox" ng-model='variable_with_field' ng-true-value="field_to_be_filtered" > <tr data-ng-repeat="release in filtered = (releases | unique:variable_with_field )" > <td>do some outputs</td> </tr> </body> </html>
JS:
var clientApp = angular.module('clientApp', [ 'ui.utils' ]); $scope.variable_with_field = false;
Initially the list is not filtered. If the checkbox is checked all duplicates are removed. If the duplicates should be removed already on load set $scope.variable_with_field on the field_name.