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In my project I am using ngx-bootstrap's dialog component which takes your ng-template and displays it as your modal.

Using ng-template is advantageous for many reasons and most importantly, there is no communication barrier (between modal and origin component) if ng-template live in same component. This way I can call my component method without any problems. For example, in following code selectNextRow() will change row in my table and hence selectedRow_Session and thus data of next row will be displayed on modal.

app.component.ts

/** display selectedRow_Session on modal */

<ng-template #sessionDetailTemplate>



      <app-session-detail-model

        [session]="selectedRow_Session"

        [bot]="bot"

        (selectNextRow)="selectNextRow()"

        (closeModel$)="modalRef.hide()"

        (selectPrevRow)="selectPrevRow()"

        [pageNumberOfCurrentRowSelected]="pageNumberOfCurrentRowSelected"

        [indexOfCurrentRowSelected]="indexOfCurrentRowSelected"

        [finalDfState]="selectedRow_Session.df_state"

        [sessionDataStore]="selectedRow_Session.data_store">

      </app-session-detail-model>



</ng-template>

In Angular Material Dialogs, I could only find API to that can create modals with only Component and not with ng-template.

Is there a way to do this, with or without dialogs, using Angular Material?

As mentioned in comments, you can use a TemplateRef with @angular/material MatDialog. You can find the API reference here : Angular Material MatDialog.

Here is a minimal example showing how to do it :

import { Component, ViewChild, TemplateRef } from '@angular/core';

import { MatDialog } from '@angular/material';



@Component({

 selector: 'dialog-overview-example',

 template: `

  <div [style.margin.px]="10">

    <button mat-raised-button (click)="openDialog()">Open Modal via Component Controller</button>

  </div>

  <div [style.margin.px]="10">

    <button mat-raised-button (click)="dialog.open(myTemplate)">Open Modal directly in template</button>

  </div>



<ng-template #myTemplate>

  <div>

    <h1>This is a template</h1>

  </div>

</ng-template>

`

})

export class DialogOverviewExample {

  @ViewChild('myTemplate') customTemplate: TemplateRef<any>;



  constructor(public dialog: MatDialog) {}



  openDialog(): void {

     const dialogRef = this.dialog.open(this.customTemplate, {

        width: '250px'

     });



     dialogRef.afterClosed().subscribe(() => {

       console.log('The dialog was closed');

     });

   }

 }

And here is a live example using Angular v6 : Stackblitz Live Example.

Hope it helps!