Why won't my ng-include's load template when called in a ui-view?

Issue

My routes file looks like:

.state('dashboard', {
  url: '/dashboard'
  views:
    appView:
      templateUrl: '/templates/main.html'
    dashboardView:
      templateUrl: '/templates/partialDashboard.html'
}).

main.html looks like:

<section class='main-page container'>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-3 lnHeaderArea">
      <ng-include src="'/templates/companyHeader.html'"></ng-include>
    </div>
    <div id="main-area" class="col-md-9">
      <div ui-view="dashboardView"></div>
      <ng-include src="'/templates/dashboardFooter.html'"></ng-include>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

and partialDashboard.html looks like:

<section ng-controller="DashboardController">
  <ng-include src="'/templates/dashboardInstitutionalDemand.html'"></ng-include>
  <ng-include src="'/templates/dashboardPriceVolume.html'"></ng-include>
  <ng-include src="'/templates/dashboardBlockExecutions.html'"></ng-include>
  <ng-include src="'/templates/dashboardAnalytics.html'"></ng-include>
</section>

But for some reason, those ng-include'd templates won't load. Any reason why?

Solution

ng-includes work fine inside the templateUrl.

Try this Plnkr or Plnkr with state: views which demonstrates just that

Explanation is below

Route using templateUrl

This is in the route1 which has templateUrl: route1.html

 $stateProvider
        .state('route1', {
          url: "/route1",
          templateUrl: "route1.html"
        })
        .state('route1.list', {
          url: "/list",
          templateUrl: "route1.list.html",
          controller: function($scope) {
            $scope.items = ["A", "List", "Of", "Items"];
          }
    })

or as per the state view like what you have

       .state('main', {
            url: '/main',
            views: {
                'route1': { 
                  templateUrl: "route1.html" 
                },
                'route2': { 
                  templateUrl: "route2.html" 
                },
            }
        })

The template that has ng-include in it -route1.html Notice myNgIncludeSample.html

  <h1>Route 1</h1>
   <hr/>
     <div ng-include="'myNgIncludeSample.html'">
      </div>
   <hr/>
   <a href="#/route1/list">Show List</a>
   <div ui-view></div>

I see that your .state('dashboard') looks different. You may want to fix your as below. Add those curly {} braces. UPDATED: The coffeescript syntax seems fine however my following pure JS code is working without any problem.

  .state('dashboard', {
      url: '/dashboard'
      views: {
        'appView': {
            templateUrl: '/templates/main.html'
         },
        'dashboardView': {
            templateUrl: '/templates/partialDashboard.html'
         }
   }).

Answered By - bhantol