Issue 114200

Summary: impress provides only limited ways of specifying the date/time format in corresponding fields
Product: Impress Reporter: calestyo <calestyo>
Component: editingAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P3 CC: elish, issues
Version: OOo 3.2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.0
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contrasts the date/time formats in Impress and Writer none

Description calestyo 2010-08-30 11:32:59 UTC 
Hi.

When adding a date/time filed via Insert/Date and Time (or similar), one can
_only_ choose via the context menu between different formats and between
fixed/variable.

But even then the available formats are static and e.g. even ISO time format is
missing.

Please make this fully configurable, as in e.g. writer.

Cheers,
Chris.
Comment 1 wolframgarten 2010-08-30 11:58:06 UTC 
Changed to enhancement. Reassigned.
Comment 2 climbatizer 2010-09-11 17:58:03 UTC 
I'd like to second this motion. Just like the author of this bug report, I can 
see that Impress does not provide the same level of date/time format 
customization as Writer.

This is my setup (although this issue clearly pertains to the design of 
Impress):
OOo-dev 3.4.0 DEV300m87 (Build:9522)
Windows Vista Home Premium - SP2
AMD Turion Dual-Core RM-75 2.20 GHz 3GB RAM 32-bit

The way I see it, two related issues are being identified:
1. Impress does not support user-specified date/time formats (Writer does).
2. Impress does not provide ISO date/time format (YYYY-MM-DD) (Writer does)

Attached you will find screenshots comparing the functionalities in each 
program. In case you need them, these are the steps to follow in Impress:
1. Create a new document in Impress.
2. From the main menu, select Insert->Fields…->"Date(fixed)". Note: any 
date/time format will suffice.
3. Select the newly added textbox and select the date field. (An easy way to 
accomplish is to do a "Select All"). You'll see that the field, which normally 
is shown with a light gray color, now appears with a darker gray color, because 
it's selected.
4. Right click on the selected field and you'll see that the available formats 
don't include the ISO format.

Because Impress doesn’t support user-specified date/time formats, the only work-
around I see for the ISO issue is that the “fixed” option is used by using the 
date manually (Note that Impress won’t automatically update it when the document 
is opened on a different date). 

As a follow-up test, I looked up what type of custom date/time formats are 
supported by MS PowerPoint and found that it lacks the same functionality that 
Impress lacks. (used MS PowerPoint 2007 SP2)

I would venture to infer that this is the reason that Impress lacks this 
functionality, which is understandable. In my opinion though, this would be a 
good opportunity for Impress to add a unique feature that will help OpenOffice 
users and provide more customization than MS PowerPoint.
Comment 3 climbatizer 2010-09-11 18:05:12 UTC 
Created attachment 71646 [details]
contrasts the date/time formats in Impress and Writer
Comment 4 Edwin Sharp 2014-05-02 10:26:15 UTC 
Confirmed with
AOO410m18(Build:9764)  -  Rev. 1589052
2014-04-22 12:11 - Linux x86_64
Debian