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

If you do this in your view.py instead:

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

Then you won't trigger the validation.

See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/api/#dynamic-initial-values