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I have an $routeProvider in my AngularJS which provides a templateUrl and controller,

I was wondering if it is possible to make the temlateUrl within the controller instead.

Reason for this is my code is partially async and this would easen the complexity.

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You need to have a template defined for a route (AFAIK), but you could have the template be:

<div ng-include="actualTemplateUrl"></div>

And in the controller set the URL:

$scope.actualTemplateUrl = "/path/to/actual/template.html";
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can I not use the ng-view instead? – Scratch. Dec 19 '14 at 4:18
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ng-view populates it with the template defined at config-time with $routeProvider. Btw, you can have the templateUrl be a function, but if your requirement is that the controller decides on the template - then ng-include seems like the right way for me. EDIT: just to clarify - this would be done in addition to ng-view – New Dev Dec 19 '14 at 4:20
    
Sadly its not working for me.. when I try to change the $scope.templateUrl = "test.html"; inside the .then() field, it won't work, but outside it does. Async such a pain.. – Scratch. Dec 19 '14 at 4:41
    
works fine for me: plunker – New Dev Dec 19 '14 at 5:19
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$timeout is async and returns a .then-able promise. Go to plunker again to see the change - it works. Post your code to plunker if you're having other issues. For example, is your async code happens outside of the Angular digest loop? if you added $scope.$apply(), would that work? – New Dev Dec 19 '14 at 5:35

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