It can and it does. Just look closer and think about it a little bit.

>How can this ever be true?
>IF TYPE('this.ControlSource') = "C" AND TYPE(this.ControlSource) = "T"
>
>>>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.