Django AdminForm field default value

Question

I have a Django admin form. And now I want to fill it\'s initial field with data based on my model. So I tried this:

class OrderForm(forms.ModelForm):
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Answer 1

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