How to programatically make selections

[#1]

Hi,

In a mashup scenario, I'm aware that you can use code such as this to get the current selections:

app.getList("CurrentSelections", function(reply){

});

What I want to do is set (or make) some selections programatically.

Let's say I have a simple app with a dimension of 'Country' and measure 'Population'.  I wish to automatically set the selections on a bar chart to 'China' and 'India' when the app opens.

Can this be done?  I've spent a long time examining the API(s), but haven't found anything.

Many thanks for any guidance on this!

Shane.

[#2]

The first country in my list is Afghanistan, and it's ID is 71.  If I pass this value into the .select method, it gets selected.

When I say 'ID', I mean a qElemNumber value of 71.  I can't access this from the 'app.getList' call for current selections. I can see it in a visualisation I've created, but for this situation, I need to get it from the mashup API.

[#3]

Here's a fuller code sample where I tackled a similar problem:

            $.each(yearList, function (key, value)

            {

                dummy = parseInt(value[0].qText);

                yearMin = yearMin < dummy ? yearMin : dummy;

                yearMax = yearMax > dummy ? yearMax : dummy;

                temp[value[0].qElemNumber] = parseInt(value[0].qText);

            });

            $("#country-comparison-chart-slider").slider({

                range: true,

                min: yearMin,

                max: yearMax,

                step: 1,

                values: [yearMin, yearMax],

                slide: function (event, ui)

                {

                    $("#country-comparison-years").html(ui.values[0] + " to " + ui.values[1]);

                },

                stop: function (event, ui)

                {

                    $("#country-comparison-years").html(ui.values[0] + " to " + ui.values[1]);

                    var selection = [];

                    for (i = 0; i < temp.length; ++i)

                    {

                        if (temp >= ui.values[0] && temp <= ui.values[1])

                        {

                            selection.push(i);

                        }

                    }

                    app.field("Year").select(selection, false,false);

                }

            });

[#4]

That makes sense, but when I do the equivalent of

app.field("My country name").selectMatch("India", false);

app.field("My country name").selectMatch("China", false);

the resulting state is that only 'China' is selected.  The state isn't accumulated, rather set as an exclusive state for each call.