Sure, you can do it, with two (at least) ways, one is to put this into your model so it automatically happens, search the documentation or users group for threadlocals middleware. The other way is to simply put it into your view as all views get the request, request.user will provide you with what you need.
On Feb 4, 2:48 pm, nikosk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need the default value of a field in a model to be the id of the > user creating the new instance of the object the model is modeling > ( am I making sense at all?) > > i.e. : > class Article(models.Model): > category = models.ForeignKey(Category) > title = models.CharField(max_length=200) > sub_title = models.CharField(max_length=200) > intro_text = models.TextField(blank=True) > main_text = models.TextField() > pub_date = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now) > author = models.ForeignKey(User) > > When someone is creating a new Article in the admin app I want the new > Article's author field to be the user's id. > > Is that possible ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
