Django ForeignKey(User), autocomplete

Question

When some user create an object in the admin panel, I want that the author field of that object to be the user's name (The user that created it). How can I do it ?

I have something like this :

author = models.ForeignKey(User)

I want to know what user created each object.

Answer 1

Sounds like you want to do what James Bennett (one of the Django core contributors) describes how to do here.