You have a lot of big questions and you'll need to do some more learning of and practice Django to answer them all. But, I will try to answer some and point you in the right direction.
First, you linked a snippet of what seems to be your "models.py" file, but much of what you wish to do will probably have to be accomplished at the view layer in the "view.py" file. At the view layer, you handle requests and the user model for the current/requesting user is accessible there. (See here, for detailed information: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/auth/#users .) Code that might allow you to get the user's name and email information might look like this: if request.user.is_authenticated() : contextdict['email'] = request.user.email contextdict['fn'] = request.user.first_name contextdict['ln'] = request.user.last_name if request.user.is_staff : contextdict['sho_alnk'] = True return render_to_response('template.html', contextdict ) Then you could access those var.s in the contextdict from your web template and use them to pre-populate your form, or display them statically perhaps. The link above also has information about groups and permissions, which should help with your second question. Another technique that might help in getting a list of usernames into a model (and hence a drop-down selection on the admin page) would be to add a field like this to the model: approver = models.ForeignKey(User , limit_choices_to = {'is_staff':True} ) That's not exactly what you've described, but there ought to be a way to modify it to get "limit_choices_to" to use the group you create rather than the boolean field User.is_staff . Good luck. K.C. On Feb 3, 4:40 am, Krondaj <c.d.smi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a model for a web form (of sorts) I'm making that > people can fill in from the admin site. I have set permissions from > the admin end so they can only write or change new posts of the form > (seehttp://dpaste.org/BZ5Nm/). it's still work in progress but I > have two problems. > > First instead of using a CharField to take their name, i'd like it to > auto populate, there full name and email address as they will be > logged in and authenticated at the admin login site. > > Secondly instead of having a set of name choices for the approver i'd > like to make a group in the admin called approver, and have it let you > select from a list (so if we have a new approver i can just add them > to the group). I know how to make the group, i just don't know how to > get the model to display these in the admin site as a drop-down list. > > I'd also like the database to link the first form and the second > form... and make it so only the person who has been requested to do > the work can fill in the required fields. > > Can anyone give me some clues/ell me how to do this.... My coding > skillz are somewhat lacking!!??!! so i'd really appreciate any help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
