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    copied!<p>I think the vagueness of the question is part of the problem, so my real first question is, what do you call, in Angular, the <em>thing</em>.</p> <p>The thing I'm trying to name is the view plus the controller, over the model of a single object. I don't even know what to call it. For things I know ahead of time I'm going to need, I've been creating <em>directives</em>, but what do you call one instance of the thing that a directive creates?</p> <p>I have several situations where all of a sudden (in response to some external event), I have a new object in the model and I want to show it on the screen. Angular seems to want me to list all the possible views <em>ab initio</em> in their parent view, but that isn't really reasonable in my case. How, for example, would I list all the pop-ups and tool-tips and other stuff.</p> <p>I'm down in some little edge case, deep in the controller code, and it needs to add something to the current view. What's the accepted practice.</p> <p>Incidentally, the $route/ng-view is one case of exactly this. The view containing the ng-view, and the ng-view DIV itself, have no idea what the $route module is going to put in the ng-view. I need the more general case of this strategy.</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>People keep asking for an example. How about this: I'm making an equipment-requisition app. When a user asks that one of the 1000 different type of equipment be sent to him, I need to display a pop-up that gathers addition information specific to that type. If he asks for a screwdriver, the pop-up will ask about blade size, neck length, and handle composition; if he asks for an airplane, it will be a wizard ask him about engine size, fuel tanks, seating arrangement. All the app knows on start-up is the list of all equipment types, and the name of the UI element that gathers all subsequent information about each particular type.</p>
 

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