id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 22135,Implement ModelAdmin.get_initial_data,Adam Avramov,Greg Chapple,"At the present moment, the admin's add view is hard-coded to get initial values from request.GET (see https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/options.py#L1363), which strikes me as quite inflexible. Would anyone be interested in seeing a `get_initial_data(self, request)` method added to `ModelAdmin`, which could then be overridden to specify arbitrary initial data for new objects?",New feature,closed,contrib.admin,dev,Normal,fixed,,,Accepted,1,0,0,0,0,0