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

[siddiqueMahsud]

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'." 

<script>

var firstname="{{ user.firstname }}";

var lastname="{{ user.lastname }}";

var birthdate="{{ user.birthdate | string }}"; //"{{ user.birthdate }}";

</script>

firstname and lastname works fine.

Any help?

[OOlashyn]

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 }}"; 

[siddiqueMahsud]

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:​

[Eduardo_Garcia]

I'm getting the same issue out of nowhere. Any ideas?

[hardikv]

Hi @siddiqueMahsud  & @Eduardo_Garcia 

Can you please try below code:

{% assign birthDate = user.birthdate %}
{{ birthDate }}

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[Eduardo_Garcia]

Thanks, but it doesn't work. It seems like the latest portal update broke parsing of boolean and datetime for the user object.