Setting selection on multi-select

[kevinwwilson]

When I try to set the selection on a multi-select, the only way that I can find to get the checkboxes to be correctly checked as well as the preselected items to show up in the box when the form renders is to set both the selection as well as meta information in the data. Is there a better way?

areas.controller("areaAddTypeController", ['$scope', '$state', function($scope, $state) {
....
    $scope.selection = [{id: 1, name: "Country"}];
    $scope.areaTypes = [{id: 1, name: "Country",_hsmeta: {selected:true}}, {id: 2, name: "Province"}, {id: 3, name: "Cluster"}];
....
}]);

tag:

<hierarchical-selector multi-select="true" data="areaTypes" on-selection-changed="updateItems(items)" selection="selection" />

[randdusing]

I'm facing this issue as well. I thought I'd be able just set the selection object.