Hi All,
Probably something really simple, but for some reason my dates are being formatted. The input date and out put formats are exactly the same, so not sure of the reason.
(date is in field 4, all inputs are dummy data)
Its literally a one step atomisation, so no where it should be going wrong.
Any ideas what could be the problem/how to stop this?
@Jennah_F
Hi, I don’t know the cause, but would using the formatDate function solve the problem?
Reference:
https://www.make.com/en/help/functions/tokens-for-date-time-formatting
Welcome to the Make community!
It’s possible that the DOB field has been defined as a date field, so Make will attempt to convert the string into a date type.
For more information, see the Type coercion page in the Make Help Centre, which covers the following:
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
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For some reason, that comes out with no result. This is what I’ve done:
And its not being listed as an output at all. Input format remains the same
This is why I’m confused, according to that, shouldn’t it keep the same format? 
Unless it’s adding time because its not included in the entries… but either case, I need the time to not be included 
In that case try using the parseDate function first:
e.g.: (paste this into the field)
{{ formatDate(parseDate(1.date; "YYYY-MM-DD 00:00:00"); "YYYY-MM-DD") }}
or, you can simply split by a space character (assuming it’s possibly a string)?
e.g.: (paste this into the field)
{{ first(split(1.date; space)) }}
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.
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Thanks for your help so far Sam!
Unfortunately, I couldnt get the above to work either. I copied and pasted, and got an error as 1.Date wasn’t found anywhere. I replaced that with the raw data, and, as before, nothing happened. This was for both solutions. I tried replacing “Space” with “TimeStamp”, but also no results.
This is from the ParseDate trial:
Input:
[
{
"fields": {
"DOB": "2025-03-07T00:00:00.000Z",
"Country": "Brazil",
"SunSign": "Unknown",
"LastName": "uhjn",
"MoonSign": "Unknown",
"FirstName": "uhj",
"RisingSign": "Unknown",
"ReferredFrom": "Search Engine (Google, Bing, etc.)"
},
"listId": "f3c19de6-d12b-11ef-80b1-2731619ca0c3",
"status": "SUBSCRIBED",
"email_address": "yiun@yuj.co"
}
]
Output:
[
{
"id": "c954f466-04ef-11f0-9923-15af9dd07d0d",
"email_address": "yiun@yuj.co",
"fields": {
"FirstName": "uhj",
"LastName": "uhjn",
"SunSign": "Unknown",
"MoonSign": "Unknown",
"RisingSign": "Unknown",
"ReferredFrom": "Search Engine (Google, Bing, etc.)",
"Country": "Brazil"
},
"status": "SUBSCRIBED",
"created_at": "2025-03-19T18:27:17.000Z"
}
]
Split Trial:
Input
[
{
"fields": {
"DOB": "2025-03-08T00:00:00.000Z",
"Country": "Argentina",
"SunSign": "Aquarius",
"LastName": "uyhn",
"MoonSign": "Unknown",
"FirstName": "ygu",
"RisingSign": "Unknown",
"ReferredFrom": "Social Media"
},
"listId": "f3c19de6-d12b-11ef-80b1-2731619ca0c3",
"status": "SUBSCRIBED",
"email_address": "uyh@uhnj.co"
}
]
Output:
[
{
"id": "8b9e7d1c-04f0-11f0-a66c-9f71043b2a56",
"email_address": "uyh@uhnj.co",
"fields": {
"FirstName": "ygu",
"LastName": "uyhn",
"SunSign": "Aquarius",
"MoonSign": "Unknown",
"RisingSign": "Unknown",
"ReferredFrom": "Social Media",
"Country": "Argentina"
},
"status": "SUBSCRIBED",
"created_at": "2025-03-19T18:32:42.000Z"
}
]
Im sure its something super simple that I’m missing!
Perhaps you should simply try to “Redetermine the Data Structure” of the webhook. This is because the DOB field is not being recognised, and “Field 4” may be an outdated variable.
For more information, see the Webhooks page in the Make Help Centre, which covers the following:
and also,
Then, send a new request to your webhook, and provide the updated output bundle of your trigger module [3].
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.