*ngIf/else not working Angular4

Question

I'm having trouble getting using *ngIf/else statements to work. Here is the setup:

<div *ngFor="let sub of day">
   <p>{{ sub.subject }}</p>
   <button type="button" *ngIf="sub.subject; else showElse" routerLink="/day" (click)="viewIndividual(day)" class="btn btn-{{colors[i]}}">View {{ daysBetween[i] | date:'EEEE' }}'s Plan</button>
   <ng-template #showElse>
      <a type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Add a Lesson</a>
   </ng-template>
</div>

The issue is my truthy statement is rendering (the button with View {{ daysBetween[i] | date:'EEEE' }}'s Plan ) on it, but my falsy value (the ng-template ) is not. I've looked at a couple tutorials and I thought I am doing it right, but I've only been studying Angular4 for a few days now. Please help!

Answer 1

You could either use a ngSwitch or, as you only have two cases, go directly for two ngIf :

<div *ngFor="let sub of day">
   <p>{{ sub.subject }}</p>
   <button *ngIf="sub.subject" type="button" routerLink="/day" (click)="viewIndividual(day)" class="btn btn-{{colors[i]}}">View {{ daysBetween[i] | date:'EEEE' }}'s Plan</button>
   <a *ngIf="!sub.subject" type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Add a Lesson</a>
</div>

Answer 2

I think you should check your *ngIf condition once again. I have tried same in my code it is working.

TestObj = [
            {
                category : 'Test'
            }, {
                category : 'Test1'
            }
        ]

HTML Code :

<div *ngFor="let key of TestObj">
    <p *ngIf="key.subcategory; else newText">** {{key.category}}</p>
       <ng-template #newText>No category found</ng-template>
</div>

This is showing No category found two times because of the condition.

Note : If you want to simplify condition you can do by checking subject condition in component and set flag true or false according to that. And use that flag in *ngIf .