Hey terri,
I tried the action you posted and yes it does set the focus while the state is active but how would I switch to another Button using the uGUi default navigation system from there? Since when I leave the state the Button becomes "unselected" again.
What I'm trying to achive is that I got several "Screens" within one GUI and therefore I want to set the focus on a default button each time I open one of those Screens using Mouse, Keyboard or Controller.
Maybe I doing it wrong?