Angular.js programmatically setting a form field to dirty

Question

I am programmatically updating some of the fields on my form with a value and I would like to set the field state to $dirty. Doing something like:

Answer 1

If you have access to the NgModelController (you can only get access to it from a directive) then you can call

ngModel.$setViewValue("your new view value");
// or to keep the view value the same and just change it to dirty
ngModel.$setViewValue(ngModel.$viewValue);