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Issue You try to approve a segmentation and get the error message of "No possible draft" even when there is a draft in place. Solution This error message can be a little misleading, as there usually is a draft in place. Check to make sure that segments in the draft have Smart List filters in place and that there are no empty values in the smart lists. An example of an empty value would be "First Name is ____" instead of "First Name is Joe."
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Issue If you create a Landing Page Domain Alias within Marketo Admin > Landing Pages > Rules, you are given the option to set up a Default Page for that Alias. What happens if an end-user navigates to an invalid page on the Domain Alias?     Solution Let's say that your Branded Domain Name is pages.domain.com, and the Fallback Page set to domain.com.You have also set up a Domain Alias: pages.otherdomain.com. The Default Page for that Alias is: otherdomain.com. When you navigate to an invalid page on the primary domain (pages.domain.com/invalid-page.html,) you will be redirected to the Fallback Page: www.domain.com. If you were to navigate to an invalid page on the Alias (such as pages.otherdomain.com/invalid-page.html), you will be still be redirected to the Admin Settings Fallback Page: www.domain.com. The Domain Alias Settings are particular in the sense that the exact setting is for the "default page". You will only be redirected to the Domain Alias Default Page if you were to navigate to pages.otherdomain.com.
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Issue You have a lead that is marked as Email Suspended and you are not sure whether they can receive Marketo emails or not. Solution When emails bounce as spam, the lead that bounced is set to "Email Suspended." "Email Suspended" is a historical field.  A more accurate name for this field would probably be "This email was suspended at some point in its history."  The actual suspension only lasts 24 hours. To see if the lead is currently suspended, check the timestamp on the 'Email Suspended' field.  If it is more than 24 hours ago, the lead is not currently suspended and can receive email from your Marketo instance.  However, the "Email Suspended" flag will remain on the lead record for the purposes of future troubleshooting.  It is not possible to set "Email Suspended" to "false" once it has been set to "true."  The "Email Suspended Cause" field will provide the bounce message associated with the most recent spam bounce.    
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Issue You created a batch A/B test with a sample size of 100%.  Even though all the leads should have been sent the test email, some leads still receive the winner.     Solution Email Batch Programs are built in such a way that the test is sent with an background 'exploration' Smart Campaign, and the winner is sent with a background 'exploitation' campaign.  The exploitation campaign will send the "winner" email to the following Smart List: Member of Program Not Sent Test Email There are two situation where the exploration campaign may not send to all the leads in the program, even when the sample size for the test is 100%. If there are duplicate leads in the program, the program will not send the email to the same address twice.  It will send the test email to the first lead and skip all following leads with the same email address.  Those skipped leads will then qualify for the "winner"/exploitation campaign and will receive the winner. If there are leads in the program who hit their Communication Limits while the "test"/exploration is running, they will be skipped.  When the "winner"/exploitation campaign runs, if those leads are not at their Communication Limits at that time, they will be sent the winner email because they were not sent the test email.  
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Issue Can the {{system.unsubscribeLink}} be customized to point to a different page, such as a preference center?     Solution Issue Resolution The system token unsubscribe link will always behave the same way, and it cannot be customized. The {{system.unsubscribeLink}} will always bring you to: sub.domain/UnsubscribePage.html. If your Landing Pages are not branded, this system token will still behave the same way and take the lead to your out-of-the-box Marketo Unsubscribe Page (ending in /UnsubscribePage.html). If you want the link to go to a different page, the easiest workaround is to create a redirect rule that sends visitors to UnsubscribePage.html to your custom page instead.
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Issue What will happen to leads currently in flow steps if you deactivate a trigger campaign?     Solution If you deactivate a trigger campaign, all leads that are currently in the flow will still be processed. Deactivating a trigger campaign will only prevent any new leads from qualifying for the campaign and going through the flow steps.   To stop people from continuing through the campaign flow steps, you have 2 options: Remove people from flow steps. (Recommended option) Note: You may want to add that flow step after every flow step, to target all areas where people may still be in and processing. Delete all flow steps. As people complete any flow step, they will no longer have a next option.
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Issue You have a Smart List that should exclude a group of leads from a campaign, but they still show up in the Qualified Leads list     Solution Check the filter logic for your Smart Lampaign. "Or" logic allows leads that only qualify for some but not all of the filters to be included in the membership.  For example, you could have a Smart List with the following filters. SFDC Type = Contacts Unsubscribed = False (You are trying to exclude unsubscribed leads) Visited Webpage - company.com/products   If you use the following Advanced logic - "(1 or 2) and 3" - you will still have unsubscribed leads showing up in the list because they are Contacts, and the logic says they can be either Contacts or Unsubscribed = False.  They only need to satisfy one of the two filters to qualify, and an unsubscribed Contact would go through. There is a blog post that goes into more detail on this.  Smart List Logic - How many people do you want in your club?    
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Issue You want to delete an Email Template but that template was used to create existing emails in your instance.     Solution It is not possible to delete an Email Template that is in use by emails in your Marketo instance, even if those emails are not approved.  If you wish to delete the template, you will need to first delete the emails that use it.  You can find these in the Used By tab in the template's information.  Alternately, you can break the connection between the email and the template, which would allow you to keep the email but delete the template.
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Issue A lot of people suddenly synced from Salesforce to Marketo. They have been in SFDC for a long time, so you're wondering why they suddenly synced.     Solution People sync from Salesforce for a number of reasons. If they aren't new leads, then they probably met some criteria that caused them to be visible to the Marketo Sync User and sync down. One thing to keep in mind is that if the visibility rules change, Marketo won't actually see those people until a field that Marketo can see changes. Marketo looks at the "sysmodtime" stamp on a record. This indicates the last time a record was modified. If the record was changed since the last time the sync ran, then Marketo updates the record on the Marketo and SFDC side with the newest information. There have been cases where the visibility rules changed, but the new records that Marketo could see weren't updated for a considerable period of time. (This could be as long as years.) However, if something eventually changed and updated the sysmodtime, these leads would all sync to Marketo. The change can be anything, but if it's a large number of people, it's frequently a change on the Account object, which then filters down to the Contacts and Leads. If you're still unsure why a large number of people have synced to Marketo, the first thing to look at is what information changed, since Marketo only syncs people when they are updated with new information.
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Issue A newly created Program is not showing up in Program Cost Analysis Report.     Solution The Program Cost Analysis Report takes a little time to show new Programs that have just been created. It doesn't do much good to show a success metric before a program has had a chance to succeed so it needs time in order for data to be collected.   If you don't see the program in the report within 48 hours, check these things: If there is a view filter in place The program is active and approved   If all that looks good contact Support for additional troubleshooting.
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Issue List Import shows other lists Pending Import import even though you are only importing one list.     Solution The List Import function can be accessed via API as well as through the Marketo user interface.  By default, the list import function can process two list imports at a time and can queue up to ten more.  If the API has a large number of list imports queued up, this may interfere with your ability to import lists in your Marketo instance.  If this occurs regularly, you may want to work with your IT department to schedule the API calls to run outside of business hours.
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Issue Will custom settings, such as Launchpoint integrations, API configurations and SFDC sync settings, remain in place when doing an instance copy, or will they be overwritten?     Environment Non-Microsoft Dynamics integrated Instance Solution All permanent configuration settings which can be done to a Marketo instance are reset to the default values or settings in the destination instance. Everything is copied except for the below list: Lead Database and activity history are not copied CRM configuration is reset on the destination instance. Users are not copied. CRM Field Mappings are removed in the destination instance except for standard mappings, and must be set during the Field Mapping Stage of CRM sync initialization. RCA information is not copied. Program subscriptions are not copied. Campaign History is not Copied. CNAMES for Email links and LPs are not copied. All Account-string based properties are modified accordingly. Munchkin ID of the destination instance is preserved. Sales Insight Admin Configuration is Reset. Outlook licenses are not copied. All pre-existing data on the destination instance will be destroyed. Asset IDs for emails, landing pages, and programs will match Launchpoint and API integrations are not copied   If data may exist on the destination instance prior to the copy process, this may require that you work with your Success Manager to obtain a replacement instance for the copy to be completed. NOTE* This process is not applicable to customers utilizing the native Microsoft Dynamics integration.
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Issue You want to know if it's possible to have the same folder name in both the Default workspace and another workspace.     Solution You cannot have the same folder name in different worksapces. For example, if you have a folder in your Default workspace named "Test" and then you try to create another folder called "Test" in a different workspace, this will not work. The same thing will happen if you try to clone a program to a different workspace and you use the exact same file name. When you are creating new folders or cloning programs, you must use a unique name.
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Issue Your Salesforce sync cycle is taking longer than usual.  How long is too long?     Solution By default, Marketo starts each Salesforce sync cycle five minutes after the previous cycle completes.  Each sync cycle may take a couple of minutes or a couple of hours, depending on how much data needs to be written across.  If you notice your sync cycles seem to be taking longer than usual, here are some things to check. Have you done a large update recently?  This can create a backlog that can take time to work through. Have you added new fields to any of your synced Salesforce objects?  The more fields on the object, the more data needs to be written across, extending the sync cycle. If you would like to streamline your Salesforce sync, do an audit in Salesforce of fields visible to the Marketo Sync User.  If there are any fields that are not used in Marketo, remove visibility to them so Marketo does not waste time syncing them.  
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Issue You have a CNAME for your Branded Tracking Links in email but want to restore the settings to the system default (example: mkto-ab01234.com).     Solution Once you have set up a Branded Tracking Link domain, it is not possible to restore it to the Marketo default.  You can change it to a different CNAME domain, but it is not possible to revert to the original.
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Issue You want to find the day that a piece of predictive content was discovered.     Solution There isn't a direct way to see the exact date a piece of content was discovered. What you can do is filter the results to content discovered during a specific time frame. Go to the "All Content" tab. Select the Calendar on the upper right side Choose the time frame and click Apply. Result: You will see only the content that was discovered during that time frame.   Who This Solution Applies To Customers with Real-Time Personalization (RTP) or Predictive Content.    
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Issue How deleting or archiving programs will affect the Lead field: Acquisition Program.     Solution If you delete a Marketo Program, the field will append a "deleted" at the end of the Program Name. For example, if the Program Name was "July 2016 newsletter" for Acquisition Program, after deleting the Program, the field value would change to: "July 2016 newsletter  -  deleted (####)". The numbers represent an activity ID on the backend. Note: Archiving Programs does not affect the Acquisition Program.    
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Issue You are considering archiving or deleting old programs, and you are wondering how that will affect reporting on membership of leads.     Solution If you delete a Marketo Program, the membership data will be lost. Technically, in the Lead record Activity Log, there will not be an activity for "no longer in program," but any and all reporting will not be able to report from deleted programs.  Keep in mind that Marketo Support cannot restore deleted programs. Archiving Programs keeps program membership data. This means that Analytics reporting, including Revenue Explorer, will be able to see archived programs and the related data. However, smart lists will no longer be able to reference the archived program. For example, say the smart list was: "Member of Program, program is [name]". In this situation, the smart list wouldn't be able to locate the program.    
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Issue Leads are not syncing from SFDC to Marketo after the sync user has gained access to them.     Solution Make a change to the lead records to queue them to sync. SFDC has permissions that allow specific users to access some leads but not others. Your Marketo SFDC sync user is a user that can have this setting applied. The sync user can also have that restriction removed to allow access to those leads. When Marketo checks Salesforce for people to update, it is looking for leads who have had record updates since the last sync. Changing visibility rules in SFDC to allow the sync user access to those leads does not update the records themselves, only the accessibility to those leads by the sync user. This means that if the sync user couldn't access the leads before but now can, they still won't sync to Marketo until they have a field update. You can change a field value, but another option is to run the Data Loader in SFDC for those affected leads. That will create a new modification indicator, which will trigger Marketo to sync those records down.    
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Issue "Added to List" trigger is not firing when a lead is imported to a list when the List Import Mode "Skip new people and updates" is selected.     Solution Campaign triggers fire when the triggering activity is written to the lead's activity log. "Skip new people and updates" mode specifically skips activity logging. Since the "Added to List" activity is not written to the lead record when a lead is imported, the campaign will not be triggered.
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