Django admin: Using ModelAdmin to default to currently logged in user

• 1 Import:
  from django import forms
  from django.contrib.auth import models
  
• 2 Add this into your admin class:
  def get_form(self, req, obj=None, **kwargs):
  # save the currently logged in user for later
  self.current_user = req.user
  return super(EventAdmin, self).get_form(req, obj, **kwargs)
  
• 3 Add this into the same admin class:
  def formfield_for_dbfield(self, field, **kwargs):
  if field.name == 'creator':
  queryset = models.User.objects.all()
  return forms.ModelChoiceField(
  queryset=queryset, initial=self.current_user.id)
  return super(EventAdmin, self).formfield_for_dbfield(field, **kwargs)
  

References

• http://www.vimtips.org/2009/04/28/django-using-modeladmin-default-currently-logged-u/