[portland] django helper

[Rami Kassab]

Dylan, this is outdated info. The new Django does have access to the  
request via a method called save_model that can be overwritten on the  
ModalAdmin class for your model. It's a nice newforms admin feature :)

Rami Kassab
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On Apr 8, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Dylan Reinhardt  
<python at dylanreinhardt.com> wrote:

> This is a common question for Django.  The challenge here is that
> request.user is known to the view, but not to the model... so you  
> can't just
> make request.user the default value on the model.
>
> Take a look at this and browse down to "The Holy Grail":
> http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/nov/02/django-tips-auto-populated-fields/
>
> HTH,
>
> Dylan
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Patrick Curtain  
> <pcurtain at gmail.com> 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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