I am constructing a Zap that when a new record is created in Zoho Creator it will add that record to a table in Zoho Analytics. (If you want to replicate a table in Zoho Creator to Analytics internally, it only updates records once every three hours, and I need realtime). My Creator Form has 3 date-time fields (dd-MMM-yyyy HH
ss) and 1 date field (dd-MMM-yyyy). I set the Zoho date format type to dd-MMM-yyyy HHss in Zapier. When I test the Zap it returns this error message:
Failed to create a row in Zoho Analytics
Error from halted execution: Given date value '2024-05-24' is not compatible with the given date format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HHss'
This error occurs both when the date format in the receiving table (Zoho Analytics) is formatted as 'dd-MMM-yyyy HHss' and 'dd-MMM-yyyy'. The Sending table (Zoho Creator) should be allowed to have two different date formats, as 3 are timestamps (with seconds) and one is a calendar date (only 'dd-MMM-yyyy’). The issue appears to be with how Zapier interacts with Creator, not Analytics. Creator requires you to choose one or the other for a field (they are two distinct field types).
I do not wish to change the calendar date field to date-time in Creator because that would change the user interface to display the time, and I only want the user to input the date for that field (a meeting date).
Why does Zapier insist that there can only be one date format when Zoho Creator has two different field types - one for date and one for date-time. Feels like bad design to me. Is there a workaround? Thanks.
