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user3541631
user3541631

Reputation: 4008

Django request.user is model, for admin and normal user

I want to autocomplete 2 fields:

created_by = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name='created_by')
updated_by = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name='updated_by')

for normal users and for django admin.

If for normal users I can use get request.user from my view(found some solutions here on the site),but this is not the case for admin/staff because I don't control the views, so I'm searching for a solution at the Model level by overwriting the save function.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1625

Answers (3)

user8060120
user8060120

Reputation:

May be the solution with default user by Middleware help you.

django-populate-user-id-when-saving-a-model

Upvotes: 1

user6089877
user6089877

Reputation: 

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

created_by = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='created_by')

updated_by = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='updated_by')

Then in your view, you can do this :

form.created_by = request.user
form.updated_by = request.user

It's going to autocomplete by the current user who made the action.

May be I didn't understant your question, so may be this is what you're looking for : How to auto insert the current user when creating an object in django admin?

Upvotes: 1

user6511855
user6511855

Reputation:

is pretty simple, just add to your field: editable=False Like this:

created_by = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, editable=False, related_name='created_by')

Upvotes: 0

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