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(
        queryset    = User.objects.filter(groups__name='Supervisors'), 
        widget      = forms.RadioSelect,
        initial     = request.user # is there some way to make this possible?
    )    
    class Meta:
        model = JobRecord

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

Answer 2

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.