Django Forms, set an initial value to request.user

Question

Is there some way to make the following possible, or should it be done elsewhere?

class JobRecordForm(forms.ModelForm):
    supervisor = forms.ModelChoiceField(
         


        

Answer 1

You might want to handle this in your view function. Since your view function must create the initial form, and your view function knows the user.

form = JobRecordForm( {'supervisor':request.user} )

This will trigger validation of this input, BTW, so you can't provide hint values this way.