Including resource directly on page do not open the dialog when edit or design mode touch UI

The dialog should be presented. Can you try to replace sly with div?

Thanks for replying!

I tried embedding it in div that earlier, tried it again , still doesn't work.

<div data-sly-resource="${'footer' @ resourceType='news-reporter/components/structure/footer'}"></div>

I'm just thinking of adding the component under a parsys (set it up for template so that when user create the page it creates automatically).

But i would really like to work the dialog in the embedding way (do not want another parsys is shown below the footer)

I read an article explain the similar issue : http://aempodcast.com/2015/sightly/aem-sightly-touch-ui-tips/#.WCLS5_l97IU

But i don't feel the solution mentioned in the article is the correct way of doing it.

Please let me know if there is anything i can try fixing it.

Forgot to mention, Here is the error i can see in the log

09.11.2016 16:22:14.119 *ERROR* [0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 [1478688734100] GET /content/news-reporter/en/news/top-stories.html HTTP/1.1] com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMDeveloperModeFilter Error during include of SlingRequestPathInfo: path='/content/news-reporter/en/news/top-stories/jcr:content/footer', selectorString='null', extension='html', suffix='null'
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.components.TouchEditContextImpl.getDesignDialogSrc(TouchEditContextImpl.java:436)
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.components.TouchEditContextImpl.drawEditing(TouchEditContextImpl.java:185)
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.components.TouchEditContextImpl.drawContentEpilog(TouchEditContextImpl.java:503)
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.components.EditContextImpl.includeEpilog(EditContextImpl.java:278)
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.components.ComponentContextImpl.includeEpilog(ComponentContextImpl.java:326)
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMComponentFilter.doFilter(WCMComponentFilter.java:266)
    at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:68)
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMDeveloperModeFilter.doFilterWithErrorHandling(WCMDeveloperModeFilter.java:159)
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMDeveloperModeFilter.doFilter(WCMDeveloperModeFilter.java:130)
    at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.filter.AbstractSlingFilterChain.doFilter(AbstractSlingFilterChain.java:68)
    at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.SlingRequestProcessorImpl.processComponent(SlingRequestProcessorImpl.java:282)
    at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.SlingRequestProcessorImpl.dispatchRequest(SlingRequestProcessorImpl.java:322)
    at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.request.SlingRequestDispatcher.dispatch(SlingRequestDispatcher.java:211)
    at org.apache.sling.engine.impl.request.SlingRequestDispatcher.include(SlingRequestDispatcher.java:104)
    at com.day.cq.wcm.core.impl.WCMComponentFilter$ForwardRequestDispatcher.include(WCMComponentFilter.java:503)
    at com.adobe.cq.sightly.WCMScriptHelper.includeResource(WCMScriptHelper.java:165)
    at com.adobe.cq.sightly.internal.extensions.ResourceExtension.call(ResourceExtension.java:128)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.sightly.impl.engine.runtime.RenderContextImpl.call(RenderContextImpl.java:66)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.sightly.apps.news_reporter.components.structure.basepage.SightlyJava_footer.render(SightlyJava_footer.java:40)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.sightly.impl.engine.runtime.RenderUnit.render(RenderUnit.java:54)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.sightly.impl.engine.SightlyScriptEngine.evaluateScript(SightlyScriptEngine.java:92)
    at org.apache.sling.scripting.sightly.impl.engine.SightlyScriptEngine.eval(SightlyScriptEngine.java:78)