prefill admin forms

David S. wrote:

> Is there a mechanism to pre-populate fields in an admin
add page?
>
> I can imagine a javascript hack or trying to use the
admin template
> from my own view somehow, but I am hoping for something
really simple
> that I missed in the docs.

default?  e.g.

    field = meta.CharField("Caption",
default="some default text", ...)

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