how to use ng-option to set default value of select element

Question

I\'ve seen the documentation of the Angular select directive here: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:select. I can\'t figure how to set the default value. This is

Answer 1

If your array of objects are complex like:

$scope.friends = [{ name: John , uuid: 1234}, {name: Joe, uuid, 5678}];

And your current model was set to something like:

$scope.user.friend = {name:John, uuid: 1234};

It helped to use the track by function on uuid (or any unique field), as long as the ng-model="user.friend" also has a uuid: