394385 - System date in a custom field

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[Srinivas]

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i created a custom field ENTRY_DATE, i want to have system date default it to that field when i opened a new bug.

like if i opened a bug today, ENTRY_DATE field must have 08/30/2007(today's date).

As of now i created a custom field but manually entering the date.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

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Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bugs already have this information stored in the creation_ts field. I don't think it's useful to implement such fields which would have the exact same value anyway.

Comment 2

[Srinivas]

i know but our requirement is like this. We need a new field ENTRY_DATE and has the sysdate populated in that..please help

Comment 3

[timeless]

do you expect people to change the entry date forward/backward? if so, why?

or is this mostly to enable people importing from another system to specify the date that the problem was originally reported?

note that a field named entry_date really doesn't fit any of those use cases or meanings.

Comment 4

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

So you say it's not a WORKSFORME bug as per comment 1. (I agree with Frédéric that it's WORKSFORME if you're just looking for a field which contains the date of bug entry.)

So then I understand what you want to have is a custom field which initially contains the current date. That's very site-specific, so it's a WONTFIX, and something to be handled as a customization at your installation. If you need help with this, http://www.bugzilla.org/support/ is your place of choice to go.