Assigning default value for field in admin

Hi there,

i'm currently writing my first Django application. I must
say that 
Django is really what i've been searchin for for years.

Right now I have a problem concerning the usage of the admin
interface. 
I have a model like this:

	from django.core import meta
	from django.models.auth import users

	class Series(meta.Model):
		name = meta.CharField(maxlength=255, primary_key=True)
		contributor = meta.ForeignKey(users.User)

		#...

When editing or creating a new object of class Series i
would like 
Django to automatically insert the current logged in user as
the 
"contributor".

I dont see any way to do this inside the class definition.
Hope you guys 
can help me here.

Thanks a lot in advance, Daniel

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If I read you right:
http://www.djangoproject.com/d
ocumentation/faq/#how-do-i-automatically-set-a-field-s-value
-to-the-user-who-last-edited-the-object-in-the-admin

I've solved almost this problem in an app, but that's
because I would
get the user from the session cookie and put it on the
request for the
form to be "auto-filled". It seems there's no
out of the box way to
achieve this.

-arthur


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Hmm, really seems to be a problem.

Does anybody know if the _post_save()-method is called
BEFORE or AFTER 
the data is written to the django_admin_log-table?

You could solve this issue by querying the
django_admin_log-table and 
receiving the newest entry for the newly created or updated
object. 
There, you'll find the user_id.

Not a nice solution, but for some it could work...

Regards, Daniel


arthur debert schrieb:
> If I read you right:
> http://www.djangoproject.com/d
ocumentation/faq/#how-do-i-automatically-set-a-field-s-value
-to-the-user-who-last-edited-the-object-in-the-admin
> 
> I've solved almost this problem in an app, but that's
because I would
> get the user from the session cookie and put it on the
request for the
> form to be "auto-filled". It seems there's
no out of the box way to
> achieve this.
> 
> -arthur
> 
> 
> 
> 

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This looks like it might help,
http://
lukeplant.me.uk/blog.php?id=1107301634 although it's
not exactly
what you're after...

Cheers,
Tone


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Hey that looks great! Thanks a lot, it will do for my
purposes!


2006/3/27, tonemcd <tony.mcdonaldgmail.com>:
>
> This looks like it might help,
> http://
lukeplant.me.uk/blog.php?id=1107301634 although it's
not exactly
> what you're after...
>
> Cheers,
> Tone
>
>
>
>

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