viewer: directly call ermrest in updateDefaultZIndex
viewer: directly call ermrest in updateDefaultZIndex

Reference.update only works if we're trying to modify visible columns.
in this case the default_z is not visible anymore and even the
code shouldn't have assumed it is visible. So the function wasn't
actually sending any request to the database.

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