Patrick,
There's actually a very nice method you can overwrite in your ModelAdmin class for that model. It's called save_model. If I could copy and paste on this iPhone I'd get ya a link to the docs but you should be able to track it down. Essentially, that method has access to the request so you can auto select the currently logged in user by setting your foreign key to request.user.

If you know that it's always going to be the currently logged in user then you can just hide the field on the form end. Simply override the save_model method and you can set whatever defaults ya want.

Hope that helps :)

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On Apr 8, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Patrick Curtain <[email protected]> wrote:

Hey!

There's a few of us here who work on Django.  If you have specific
questions, you could probably get several responses. Some might even be
helpful.  :-)

I'll start here then, for now.  :)  Thanks!  Anyone else, feel free to
tell me it's too specific for the pdxpython list.

I've got a 'Recipe' model that needs to store the author.  From what I
could learn in other examples, this got added to my model:

   member = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name="added_recipes",
blank=True, null=True)

When I view the form in the admin interface, it works, but that field
shows up as a select box of all users in the system.

My goal is to let some bulk data entry happen in advance of the full
app being completed.  Hence the push to make it work in admin and get
going.

Question:

How do I tell the admin interface form (via the internal 'class Admin'
magic ideally) that it should get the user from the 'request.user'
currently using the app?

Responses of "dumb idea, do this instead" -just- as welcome.  :)

And thanks, everyone!
--p
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