md-select can't set selected value

Question

I have a md-select set up as follows:

<md-select placeholder="Category" ng-model="current.Category" flex >
    <md-option ng-repeat="item in categories" ng-value="{{item}}">{{item.Name}}</md-option>
</md-select>

@scope.categories value is

[  
{  
  "Name":"Commercial & Industrial",
  "ParentId":null,
  "Categories":[  
     {  
        "Name":"Deceptive Marketing",
        "ParentId":19,
        "Categories":[  

        ],
        "Id":24,
        "ModifiedDate":"2015-08-06T07:49:53.0489545",
        "CreatedDate":"2015-08-06T15:49:51.707"
     },
     {  
        "Name":"Aggressive Agents",
        "ParentId":19,
        "Categories":[  

        ],
        "Id":25,
        "ModifiedDate":"2015-08-06T07:50:10.0026497",
        "CreatedDate":"2015-08-06T15:50:08.63"
     }
  ],
  "Id":19,
  "ModifiedDate":"08/06/2015 @ 7:49AM",
  "CreatedDate":"08/06/2015 @ 3:49PM"
 },
 {  
  "Name":"Competitive Supply",
  "ParentId":null,
  "Categories":[  
     {  
        "Name":"Security Deposit",
        "ParentId":20,
        "Categories":[  

        ],
        "Id":21,
        "ModifiedDate":"2015-08-06T07:49:30.3966895",
        "CreatedDate":"2015-08-06T15:49:25.8"
     },
     {  
        "Name":"Meter",
        "ParentId":20,
        "Categories":[  

        ],
        "Id":22,
        "ModifiedDate":"2015-08-06T07:49:34.6571155",
        "CreatedDate":"2015-08-06T15:49:33.3"
     },
     {  
        "Name":"Bill",
        "ParentId":20,
        "Categories":[  

        ],
        "Id":23,
        "ModifiedDate":"2015-08-06T07:49:41.7268224",
        "CreatedDate":"2015-08-06T15:49:40.357"
     }
  ],
  "Id":20,
  "ModifiedDate":"08/06/2015 @ 7:49AM",
  "CreatedDate":"08/06/2015 @ 3:49PM"
   }
]

The md-select works fine. But what I can't figure out is how to set select value. When I try setting the model current.Category to one of the values from the $scope.categories it doesn't get set.

Answer 1

in order to set the default value of select you can use ng-selected and ng-model

    <md-select ng-model="vmIdPage.number">
             <md-option ng-value="mod" ng-repeat="mod in vmIdPage.initObject.listeModaliteMisePlace" ng-selected="{{ mod.id === vmIdPage.number.id ? 'true' : 'false' }}">
                {{mod.libelle}}
             </md-option>
    </md-select>