[Django]-Django AdminForm field default value

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I’m not too sure what you need to set email to, but You can set the initial values in lots of different places.

Your function def init() isn’t indented correctly which i guess is a typo? Also, why are you specifically giving the email form field a TextInput? It already renders this widget by default

You can set the email’s initial value in your form’s initialized (def __ init __(self))

(self.fields['email'].widget).initial_value = "something"

or in the model.py

email = models.CharField(default="something")

or as you have in forms.py

email = models.CharField(initial="something")
👤Timmy O'Mahony

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Assuming the value is based on ‘request’ you should use this:

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
        form = super(MyModelAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)
        form.base_fields['my_field_name'].initial = 'abcd'
        return form
👤Paul Kenjora

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Since Django 1.7 there is a function get_changeform_initial_data in ModelAdmin that sets initial form values:

def get_changeform_initial_data(self, request):
    return {'name': 'custom_initial_value'}

EDIT: Apart from that, @Paul Kenjora’s answer applies anyway, which might be useful if you already override get_form.

In case of inline (InlineModelAdmin) there is no get_changeform_initial_data. You can override get_formset and set formset.form.base_fields['my_field_name'].initial.

👤Wtower

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I needed the first solution of pastylegs since the other ones overwrite the whole Widget including, for example, the help text. However, it didn’t work for me as he posted it. Instead, I had to do this:

self.fields['email'].initial = 'something'

In my case, I was trying to do a personalized auto-increment(based on current data and not a simple default) in a field of a django admin form.

👤toto_tico

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This code is worked for me (Django 1.11):

from django import forms

class MyAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.initial['field_name'] = 'initial_value'
👤valex

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