ng-grid/ui-grid celltemplate on click causes row to be selected. - ng-grid

Question

When I use celltemplate for ahref link, once the link is clicked the row highlights because i have RowSelection enabled...but i dont want the row to highlight when the link is clicked..only if the row is clicked anywhere but the link.
Also in my below example picture, how do I remove the little arrow so no Menuitems can be displayed for that column?
Code:
$scope.gridOptions = {
showFooter: true,
enableFiltering: true,
enableRowSelection: true,
enableRowHeaderSelection: false,
enableSelectAll: true,
multiSelect: true,
enableColumnResizing: true,
columnDefs: [
{ field:'date', displayName: 'Date', width: 200, aggregationType: uiGridConstants.aggregationTypes.count },
{ field:'notes', displayName: 'Notes', width: 65, enableFiltering: false, enableSorting: false, enableHiding: false, cellTemplate:'View' }
],
data: data
}
Pic:

Answer 1

Here is a possible answer to ui-grid (which is not ng-grid anymore!).
The cell template for a button that does not select the row is:
cellTemplate: '<button class="btn primary" ng-click="$event.stopPropagation();getExternalScopes().showMe(row)">Click Me</button>'
Note the $event.stopPropagation() in the ng-click directive. This will hinder the click to reach the underlying functions of the rowTemplate.
(Note also that I didn't found another way to pass a click event to the controller than by using externalScopes. I'm sure there is a better way but ui-grid is still beta and I'm also pretty new to it)
Second part of your question: Use this headCellTemplate
var headCelltpl = '<div ng-class="{ \'sortable\': sortable }">' +
'<div class="ui-grid-vertical-bar"> </div>' +
'<div class="ui-grid-cell-contents" col-index="renderIndex">' +
'{{ col.displayName CUSTOM_FILTERS }}' +
'</div>' +
'</div>';
and add it to the respective columns in your columnDefs.
headerCellTemplate: headCelltpl
Here is a Plunker with everything included.
Please don't tell me you meant ng-grid:-)

Answer 2

The simple solution is change the row.setSelected to false
cellTemplate: '<button class="btn primary" ng-click="grid.appScope.deSelectRow(row)">Click Me</button>'
$scope.deSelectRow = function(row) {
row.setSelected(false);
};