auto input value to a field

Hi, I have a user field that at the moment is populated via a dropdown that is a list of all users in the tabel. What I'd like to do is auto populate that field from theAuth.User.username value so that the user never has to enter their name in a record. How is this done? thanks! Check out the

Re: auto input value to a field

Use the default property: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1402/options-default Jeremy Burns Class Outfit jeremybu...@classoutfit.com http://www.classoutfit.com On 9 Aug 2010, at 16:00, james wrote: Hi, I have a user field that at the moment is populated via a dropdown that is a list of all