Django Admin prepopulate user's email - django-admin

Question

I need some help to prepopulate user's email in my models. There has to be an easy way, but i think i am too tired to see the trick. Basically what i need, after the user has been logged in to admin, i need those fields like user, email and name from the User model to be already populated with the info of the current user.
Your help will be much appreciated!
Currently my models are like this:
class ParcareManager(models.Manager):
def active(self, *args, **kwargs):
return super(ParcareManager, self).filter(draft=False).filter(parking_on__lte=timezone.now())
class Parcare(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, blank=True, null=True, default=1, on_delete=True)
email=models.EmailField(blank=True, null=True)
# email = models.EmailField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
parking_on = models.DateField(auto_now=False, auto_now_add=False,blank=True, null=True)
parking_off = models.DateField(
auto_now=False, auto_now_add=False, blank=True, null=True) #plecarea din parcare
location =models.CharField(max_length=120, default="P1", blank=True, null=True)
updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True, auto_now_add=False,blank=True, null=True)
timestamp=models.DateTimeField(auto_now=False, auto_now_add=True,blank=True, null=True)
venire = models.TimeField(default=datetime.time(9, 00),auto_now=False, auto_now_add=False )
plecare = models.TimeField(default=datetime.time(
18, 00), auto_now=False, auto_now_add=False)
objects = ParcareManager()
def __str__(self):
return self.email + " | " + self.location + " | " + str(self.parking_on) + " | " + str(self.parking_off)
class Meta:
verbose_name_plural = "parcare"
class Meta:
ordering = ["-timestamp", "-updated"]
My admin is like this:
from django.contrib import admin
# Register your models here.
from .models import Parcare
class ParcareModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = [ "email","user", "location",
"parking_on", "parking_off", "venire", "plecare"]
list_display_links = ["email", "user" ]
list_editable = [ "parking_off", "parking_on","venire", "plecare"]
list_filter = ["parking_on", "parking_off", "venire", "plecare"]
search_fields = ["location", "name"]
class Meta:
model = Parcare
def email(self, obj):
return obj.user.email
admin.site.register(Parcare, ParcareModelAdmin)

Answer 1

If this is the case, then you may try this:
def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
form = super().get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)
if not obj:
user = request.user
form.base_fields['user'].initial = user
form.base_fields['email'].initial = user.email
return form
Here you are fetching the logged in user object from request and then initializing the values from that user.