Issue with Django Inline form

Question

I have attached TestInline in the FoobarAdmin, this thing works well but i want logged in user to be pre-populated for the added_by field

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class Test(models.Model):

    description = models.TextField()
    added_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    added_by = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='added_by',)

class TestInline(admin.TabularInline):
        model = Test
        extra = 1

class FoobarAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    inlines = [TestInline,]

admin.site.register(Foobar, FoobarAdmin)

Please let me know if its possible to have user prepopulated for the added_by field

Answer 1

See prepopulated_fields in the admin docs.

If I understand what you need correctly, I think this article by James Bennett tackles the issue pretty well.

Finally (in case you haven't seen them), there are two other informative posts on prepopulating admin fields.