Could you explain what you are trying to do here ? Is this to determine if a user has already seen this tutorial? If the requirement is to Auto-Start the tutorial - did you try https://github.com/mendhak/angular-intro.js#autostart ? There are other callbacks that we can tap into to mark the intro as viewed - https://github.com/mendhak/angular-intro.js#exit-method

Sure, the goal was to have the IntroJS tutorial start automatically for dashboard, profile.about, and any profile subtrack page that is not copilot. The user should only see it once, and canceling the intro, clicking outside of it, or finishing the intro marks it was "seen". We need to keep track of all 3 intros per user and only show the intros if they are logged in and viewing their own profile.

As for ng-intro-autostart I couldn't get to work because either the elements on the page weren't ready yet or the stateParams weren't ready or both. I thought about using the exit callbacks, but we would have had to use both (because canceling and finishing should both trigger the intro as "seen") and I also realized that no matter what action they take, as long as the intro was initialized, we need to mark it as seen, so we can just mark that in the same place as starting it (lines 42, 49, 56).