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

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.