Angular ui-grid set filter field programatically and refresh. Value not showing up

Question

I have a ui-grid with a bunch of columns using the built in filtering. One of the columns is "owner". There is a button you can click that says "My Items". When clicked that button should populate the Owner Filter field with the users name and filter the items. I am setting the filter as follows as specified in the ui-grid documentation:

$scope.gridApi.grid.columns[3].filters[0] = "somename";

However "somename" never shows up in the column filter header, and the data never refreshes. I've tried calling refresh() as well as notifyDataChange but nothing seems to work.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is the correct way of doing it. By the way, there is no need to call refresh() function.

  $scope.gridApi.grid.columns[3].filters[0] = {
    term: somename
  };