>Bit rusty on directives so may be missing something but I don't see what your problem is. Can you explain a bit more.
>Also don't know why transclude is true since there's no ng-transclude directive in the template ?

Right now this directive is a button (single input control). In run-time it's value becomes either 'Select Layout' or name of the selected layout.

I want to add to it a button to clear that selected layout and also there needs to be some sort of the control to launch the form to edit that selected layout (may be right click - not sure).

But I don't see a way of adding that extra control of clearing the layout as the template is currently a single button those value (text) is replaced in run-time.

Do you see my problem?