Django Admin Model Field Set To Current User

I have a model with field: class MyModel(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) created_by = models.ForeignKeyField(User) In my admin: class MyModelAdmin(ad

Solution 1:

You have already set fields so that created_by does not appear in form in the Django admin.

Now you need to override save_model, and set the user before saving new objects.

classMyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fields = ("name",)

    defsave_model(self, request, obj, form, change):
        ifnotchange:# the object is being created, so set the user
            obj.created_by = request.user
        obj.save()

Solution 2:

To do that override the save_model method and set the created_by field to the current user.

classMyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display= ("name",)
    fields = ("name",)

    defsave_model(self, request, obj, form, change):             
        ifnotchange:# can use this condition also to set 'created_by'    # if not getattr(obj, 'created_by', None):            
            obj.created_by = request.user
        obj.save()