dates

code_slave · Post by **code_slave** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:32 pm

Hi guys,

can you 'fix' the dates, so any date fields in the references, can be made to conform to a pre-defined format.

At the moment you can type fairly much anything into a date field, which makes spelling mistakes common.

Then can you add a system to take the date field , and render it in a user defined format.
I.E
DD/MM/YY
DD/MMM/YY
DD/MMM/YYYY

or
YYYY/MM/DD

Post by **Jon** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:12 am

Not really. For many people reference information is imported, not entered from the keyboard, and there are far too many ways to represent dates for Bookends to enforce a few.

Jon
Sonny Software

nicka · Post by **nicka** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:56 pm

On more or less this subject, it would be nice to have a menu command that inserts the date in Bookends format (yyyy-mm-dd).
The current one (Refs>Insert Date) respects the system preference date setting, which is good, but not what is needed for filling in date fields in Bookends if you want to sort on them.

The new one could use the existing keyboard shortcut plus option: Command-Option-Shift-t.

Post by **Jon** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:54 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. Interesting idea.

Jon
Sonny Software