how to switch from one view to another without destroying the old one in non mobile app

Question

I am wondering how can i go for example from shell to form page and then go back to shell to its current status when i am done with the form. for example i have things inspector open in shell and i want to go back to the same thing inspector when i leave form page. without using mobile library. at the moment i do the following but i am wondering if there is a better way?

                var mainShellView = sap.ui.getCore().byId("Shell1");
                var formView = sap.ui.jsview("formView", "form");
                oTI.exit();
                mainShellView.destroy();
                formView.placeAt("content");
            }

Answer 1

Why not use the Shell itself to navigate between views / forms? That's the main purpose of the Shell control anyway ;-)

Just set

mainShellView.setContent(<your_view_reference>);

accordingly to switch between different views inside your shell