Polymer update route from custom element - polymer

Question

Complete Polyer noob here trying to write a simple little Polymer app.
What I'm trying to do is drive navigation of my iron-pages from a custom element (client-table) but can not figure out how to do this.
I've tried various permutations of using attr-for-selected and selected attributes within the table, but that doesn't seem to work. I've also tried setting up an anchor tag around the paper-button, and almost got that working, but it would trigger a full page refresh and not display my #clientInfo section when the page loaded.
Any suggestions on how to accomplish this, links to documentation that better explain routing/navigation in Polymer (esp. in cases of using custom elements), any default Polymer elements I should inspect the source of, etc?
<!-- snippet from index.html -->
<iron-pages attr-for-selected="data-route" selected="{{route}}">
<section data-route="home">
<paper-material elevation="1">
<h2>Clients</h2>
<client-table></client-table>
<a data-route="clientInfo" href="/">test</a>
</paper-material>
</section>
<section data-route="clientInfo">
<paper-material elevation="1">
<h2></h2>
<p>This is the users section</p>
Rob
</paper-material>
</section>
</iron-pages>
<!-- snipped from client-table.html -->
buildTable: function() {
var domTable = this.$.table;
var tableData = this.parseTableJson(this.buildTableJson());
var tableMarkup = this.buildTable_initTable() + "<tbody>";
for (var index in tableData) {
row = tableData[index];
var rowMarkup = "<tr>";
rowMarkup += "<td>" + row.clientFirstName + "</td>";
rowMarkup += "<td>" + row.clientLastName + "</td>";
rowMarkup += "<td>" + row.clientEmail + "</td>";
rowMarkup += "<td>" + row.clientPhone + "</td>";
rowMarkup += "<td>" + row.clientZipCode + "</td>";
rowMarkup += "<td><paper-button><iron-icon icon='card-membership'></iron-icon></paper-button></td>";
rowMarkup += "</tr>";
tableMarkup += rowMarkup;
}
tableMarkup += "</tbody>";
$(domTable).append(tableMarkup);
}

Answer 1

And then I found routing.html.