Yeah, you want to assign that user_id value in the view, when you're saving the instance:
mydocument.author_id = request.user.id mydocument.save() Are you trying to solve for a case where you want the current *admin* user to be the author_id for the record? You can also add a save method to your admin class, something like this: class DocumentAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change): obj.user = request.user if not obj.author_id: obj.author_id = obj.user_id obj.save() One other thing ... if you're going to populate 'author' with user_id, you might want to change the model thusly: author = models.ForeignKey(User) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---