AngularJS: multiple edit forms routing? - angularjs

Question

I have a listing of Requests each with a Request_Type_Id which maps to a feeder list (which could grow as the application evolves). For example, we might have (id, request_type) 1 - Sales Information, 2 - Technical Support, 3 - Order Information and, of course, each one has unique fields so the edit forms are very different.
By clicking the name, I want to open the correct of these different edit forms.
For routing, I have this:
$routeProvider
.when('/editrequest/:req_id/:id', {
controller: 'EditRequestController',
templateUrl: '/App/Views/editRequest.html'
}).otherwise( { redirectTo: '/' } );
because I set the edit link to
{{req.title}}
I am still trying to learn AngularJS and am wondering if the best way to proceed from here would be to choose the correct edit form on /App/Views/editRequest.html by using ng-show. This would mean there would be at least 3 forms on that template (not nested, though) which might be problems in some browsers.
Is there a more AngularJS way to do this that I haven't learned yet?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

templateUrl can be a string or a function, which accepts route parameters and return a string.
In your case, you can doing so:
$routeProvider
.when('/editrequest/:req_id/:id', {
controller: 'EditRequestController',
templateUrl: function(params) {
// use params.req_id to generate a url
return '/App/Views/editRequest'+params.req_id+'.html';
}
}).otherwise( { redirectTo: '/' } );
Another important thing worth mention here is, be careful when use interpolate in href or src. Use ng-href or ng-src instead.