Pipeline Jinja For Duration in Seconds

I am mad that worked. Lol. I didn't use the loop to save a step because I knew there would only be one record resulting from the search. I started to leave it at first since it is automatically added when you insert a search step, but again, I was thinking save a step. Lesson learned. Thank you and thank everyone who was trying to help. 

I need quickbase to fix that. There is nothing about that error that suggests that might have been the issue. 

In pipelines you're getting/viewing/working with the raw datetime value in utc time from your datetime field. You should be able to just compare your datetime field to less than 30 seconds ago in an expression, if you're using a conditional, or even a filter. 

In this example, if the start datetime value from the record is within 30 seconds, then follow the true path. This is within a conditional step using expression - evaluates to true:

{% if a.start_date_time >= time.now - time.delta(seconds=30) %}
true
{% endif %}

Hope this helps. 

I tried something very similar to this. I just now tried to do precisely what you have and it is still giving me that error message. 

Interesting. Can you share a screenshot? 

And, I just thought of this... you could actually just perform subtraction directly against the datetime field from time.now. With this, if you extract the seconds from the datetime object from subtracting the two values and it's less than 30, true is used, otherwise, you can print the seconds property from the subtraction; which most likely will still result in true unless the pipeline triggers and the subtraction results in zero. 

{% if (time.now - a.start_date_time).seconds <= 30 %}
true
{% else %}
{{ (time.now - a.start_date_time).seconds }}
{% endif %}

Simply just trying to populate the value in my email sent date field into this text field using an update record step generates this error:

Validation error: Incorrect template "{{b.email_sent_date}}". ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'email_sent_date'

I am assuming it just has to be converted since this is a text field I am trying to update. Even with the attempt to use the condition step, I am assuming it has to be converted. I have made attempts to do that as well, with no success.