I've been clearing backbone history and reloading the page so it's handled by the Backbone router with the loading animation.  It's a stop gap measure until we get polling and "block" level updates implemented. It also resets window.MODEL_DATA by calling render_page().

https://github.com/ooici/ion-ux/blob/master/static/js/ux-views-actionmenu.js#L102-L104