>Nadya
>
>Don't you just want to set the DateFormat prop of your field to whichever you want (i.e. any of the formats + more)? You don't need the inputmask.
>
Do you see, why it doesn't take the InputMask:

IF TYPE('this.ControlSource') = "C" AND TYPE(this.ControlSource) = "T"
   this.Format = "" && we can not use D format, because it doesn't allow to edit time portion
   LOCAL lcInputMask
   lcInputMask = CHRTRAN(TRANSFORM(DATETIME()),"1234567890","9999999999")
   *this.InputMask = ALLTRIM(STRTRAN(STRTRAN(m.lcInputMask,"M","A"),"P","A"))
   this.InputMask = "99/99/9999 99:99:99 AA"
   =MESSAGEBOX(this.InputMask)
ENDIF

It does take it from the property sheet.