Date field Invalid Input Value Field Key on Custom Action.

[FFochi]

Hello,
I’m using the custom workflow action API to trigger custom events on my analytics and messaging system.
The issue I’m facing is that if I declare it as date and dateTime it returns as invalid input value field key when I select a date time property in Hubspot (in the example it’s the meeting start time from a meeting object).
If I declare it as string, then it outputs only the date (DD/MM/YY) without the time.
Either a unix timestamp or a string with DD/MM/YY HH:MM works for me.
Can someone please help me out?

The field was declared as
“typeDefinition”: {
“name”: “Variable 11”,
“type”: “datetime”,
“fieldType”: “date”,
“options”: [],
“optionsUrl”: null,
“referencedObjectType”: null,
“externalOptions”: false,
“externalOptionsReferenceType”: null
},
“supportedValueTypes”: [
“STATIC_VALUE”

[KhushbooP11]

Hi @FFochi,

To fix the “Invalid Input Value Field Key” issue,

1. Declare the field as a string and convert the datetime to a Unix timestamp.

2. Alternatively, format the date as “DD/MM/YY HH:MM” and use it as a string.

These approaches should resolve the error and correctly capture the datetime.

I hope it helps, let me know if you need to talk!

Khushboo Pokhriyal

Growth & Operations

GroRapid Labs

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[FFochi]

Hi @KhushbooP11
Thank you for the answer.
When I declare the variable as

"type": "string","fieldType": "text"

Hubspot automatically sends it as a string containing only “MM/DD/YY”, without the the HH:MM information.

Variable 11 here was declared as dateTime, but set manually in the workflow, while Variable 1 is a string from a datetime property.