Blueprint: How to set the default to the person logged in

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With http://getkirby.com/forum/panel/20150121/default-author-field-to-user-who-is-logged-in:

I have added the author field to my blog pages in the blueprint, but I want to set the default to the person, who is writing the blog article. That should come from the login.

How can I do that in the blueprint like „default: today“ in http://getkirby.com/forum/panel/20141108/get-current-date-in-panel/#20141121100749 for a date field?

Thanks for your help.

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I am not aware of any built-in solution. What I am thinking could be a way is:

  1. Create a new custom form field: http://getkirby.com/docs/panel/custom-form-fields
  2. Could be based on the select field: https://github.com/getkirby/panel/blob/master/app/fields/select/select.php
  3. Add all users as select options by looping through $users: http://getkirby.com/docs/cheatsheet/#users
  4. Make the current user the pre-selected/default one by using $user->isCurrent(): http://getkirby.com/docs/cheatsheet/user/is-current
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Thanks for your topic, but I want to know, what I can add at my blueprint as an “built-in solution” like “default: today” at http://getkirby.com/forum/panel/20141108/get-current-date-in-panel/#20141121100749 …

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And as I said, I don’t think that there is any built-in way to achieve this. That’s why I suggested a way to realize it without the needs to fill in an empty author text field.

But I agree, would be nice to have such a thing as a default option.

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Something like this should work (at least it did in a quick test): https://gist.github.com/distantnative/f3918ca69173dd38fbd8
I only quickly threw it together, but it should be it more or less – still not ‘built-in’, but as a custom form field it’s as clean as it gets, if you actually need it.

Just put it as author.php in site/fields/author/ and use in your blueprint type: author

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@distantnative:

Many thanks for your very nice work. It looks best.

I have tested it.

It works exactly the way I wanted it.

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@bastianallgeier:
Do you include this in the next Kirby version?

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With the last http://download.getkirby.com/nightly this field prevents the input from to be saved.

Something is wrong. :disappointed_relieved: