Sitecore SPEAK UI set selected row of ListControl - sitecore

Question

I have a SPEAK UI dialog with a ListControl bound to a custom JSON datasource. This works and the ListControl is correctly populated. My JSON data looks something like this:
[
{
"itemId":"{BA26159A-194D-4A3C-9D1A-DA9472F11BE0}",
"selected":true
},
{
"itemId":"{E651D0CD-0E7E-4903-8E26-0D1D5A168E69}",
"selected":false
},
{
"itemId":"{E651D0CD-0E7E-4903-8E26-0D1D5A168E70}",
"selected":false
}
]
Is there a way to ensure the relevant row of the ListControl is selected ("selected":true) when the dialog loads?

Answer 1

You can set the ListControl's selected item ID like this: this.MediaResultsListControl.viewModel.set({selectedItemId:"ITEMID"})
(Sitecore.Speak.app instead of this during dubuging in the console)
If you call this.MediaResultsListControl.viewModel.selectedItemId() you can see the selected item has been set by the above method.
Wondering on page load, if you can set the ListControls selected item id, from the page code manually using this method?
Looking at the JS for the list control. It calls this on click of a row. Wonder if you can replace this to trigger selected row?
selectRow: function (row, rowModel) {
this.$el.find(".active").removeClass("active");
row.addClass("active");
this.model.set("selectedItem", rowModel);
this.model.set("selectedItemId", rowModel.get("itemId"));
},