How to auto insert the current user when creating an object in django admin?

Question

I have a database of articles with a

submitter = models.ForeignKey(User, editable=False) 

Where User is imported as follows:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User.  

I would like to auto insert the current active user to the submitter field when a particular user submits the article.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Just in case anyone is looking for an answer, here is the solution i've found here: http://demongin.org/blog/806/

To summarize: He had an Essay table as follows:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User  class Essay(models.Model):     title = models.CharField(max_length=666)     body = models.TextField()     author = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, blank=True) 

where multiuser can create essays, so he created a admin.ModelAdmin class as follows:

from myapplication.essay.models import Essay from django.contrib import admin  class EssayAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):     list_display = ('title', 'author')     fieldsets = [         (None, { 'fields': [('title','body')] } ),     ]      def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change):         if getattr(obj, 'author', None) is None:             obj.author = request.user         obj.save()