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Liquid error: Object of type 'System.DateTime' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'.

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Posted on by Siddique mahsud

I'm trying to get birthDate (and other date fields) of the portal user(contact) in liquid in a content snippet, it give me the error "Liquid error: Object of type 'System.DateTime' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'."

var firstname="{{ user.firstname }}";
var lastname="{{ user.lastname }}";
var birthdate="{{ user.birthdate | string }}"; //"{{ user.birthdate }}";
</script>

firstname and lastname works fine.

Any help?

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Eduardo_Garcia 5 on at

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Re: Liquid error: Object of type 'System.DateTime' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'.

Thanks, but it doesn't work. It seems like the latest portal update broke parsing of boolean and datetime for the user object.
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Re: Liquid error: Object of type 'System.DateTime' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'.

Hi @siddiqueMahsud & @Eduardo_Garcia

Can you please try below code:
{% assign birthDate = user.birthdate %} {{ birthDate }}

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Eduardo_Garcia 5 on at

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Re: Liquid error: Object of type 'System.DateTime' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'.

I'm getting the same issue out of nowhere. Any ideas?
Siddique mahsud 11 on at

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Re: Liquid error: Object of type 'System.DateTime' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'.

thank you OOlashyn for your response, seems like there is some issue with my portal, as I'm used the same as you mentioned but not working.

I just simply need the birthdate, no matter what is the format.

My sample code:

Output:

Also, I used like below:

var birthdate="{{ user.birthdate }}"; alert(birthdate);

and got below in alert:
OOlashyn 3,496 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Liquid error: Object of type 'System.DateTime' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'.

Hi @siddiqueMahsud,

If you would like to convert datetime to a specific format check this official doc regarding available datetime filters.

var date = "{{ now | date: 'MMM dd, yyyy' }}"; // output Sep 09, 2021

If you just want to print that value to use as a string you don't need any additional filter and this code will work just fine:

// this will be a string var birthdate="{{ user.birthdate }}";