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

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.