I am new to MongoDB.
I downloaded a copy of MongoDb Compass and has been trying to create a new Connection for the last couple of hours without avail.
The error it gives me is pasword must be a string.
I have since altered my password to contains 8 characters (no special characters, just alphabets) but still it gives me the same errro.
I hope some once can advise me how to resolve this error in order to proceed to create a database.
Windows 0S.
Mongodb Compass 1.12.
Tks
Are you using a connection string or filling the fields manually?
I’m going to give you both examples with my working connection in case it’s useful to you.
mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@cluster0.km5a0.mongodb.net/<database>?authSource=admin&replicaSet=atlas-uhbw1d-shard-0&w=majority&readPreference=primary&appname=MongoDB%20Compass&retryWrites=true&ssl=true
Thank you so much Kelvin. The 2nd method works for me. The copy and paste still gives me the same error, for some strange reason. I am happy at least now I can create a database from here.
Thank you once again. 
You’re welcome, I’m glad that the alternative worked.
