Smart-table - Setting page from code - angularjs

Question

I'm using the very good table library Smart-table to display my data.
I am using a custom pagination template. I would however like to be able to set page 1 from the code. I have read up on the st-pipe directive it exposes, but it seems that I would need to re-write the whole filtering/pagination/sorting code myself if I implement that.
I'm after a simple way to programatically set a page from outside of the st-pagination directive that exists in my table's tfoot
<table st-table="displayedCollection" st-safe-src="tags" class="table table-hover">
<tbody>
<tr st-select-row="tag" st-select-mode="single" ng-repeat="tag in displayedCollection" ng-click="click(tag)">
<td>
<span editable-text="tag.name" e-placeholder="enter a display name..." e-name="name" e-form="editableForm" e-required>
{{tag.name}}</span>
</td>
<td>
<span editable-text="tag.path" e-placeholder="enter actual value to be used..." e-name="path" e-form="editableForm" e-required>
{{tag.path}}</span>
</td>
<td>
<form editable-form shown="newItem == tag" onshow="onShow()" name="editableForm" oncancel="oncancel(newItem)" onaftersave="saveForm(tag)">
<!-- EDIT -->
<button type="button" class="btn btn-sm btn-default" ng-click="editableForm.$show()" tooltip="Edit" tooltip-placement="left" ng-hide="editableForm.$visible">
<i class="fa fa-pencil-square-o fa-lg"></i>
</button>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td colspan="1" class="text-left">
<div st-template="app/partials/pagination.html" st-pagination="" st-items-by-page="pager.itemsOnPage"></div>
</td>
<td colspan="1">
<div class="btn-group btn-group-sm pull-right ng-scope">
<button type="button" ng-class="{'active':pager.itemsOnPage==5}" ng-click="pager.itemsOnPage=5" class="btn btn-default">5</button>
<button type="button" ng-class="{'active':pager.itemsOnPage==10}" ng-click="pager.itemsOnPage=10" class="btn btn-default">10</button>
<button type="button" ng-class="{'active':pager.itemsOnPage==20}" ng-click="pager.itemsOnPage=20" class="btn btn-default">20</button>
<button type="button" ng-class="{'active':pager.itemsOnPage==30}" ng-click="pager.itemsOnPage=30" class="btn btn-default">30</button>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>
I'd like to be able to set page on from the <form> sections onshow directive.
Does anyone know if this is possible? Many thanks.

Answer 1

To set the angular-smart-table page number from code use st-pagination's selectPage() function.
Where your HTML has a paginator element like this:
<div id="pagerId" st-pagination="" st-items-by- ...
You could use code like this in your directive
function setPage(pageNumber)
{
angular
.element( $('#pagerId') )
.isolateScope()
.selectPage(pageNumber);
}
You need to have jQuery installed to use $. I got the idea from the last example on: http://lorenzofox3.github.io/smart-table-website/