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Issue You have two SFDC picklist fields mapped to one Marketo field but it isn't showing all picklist values for both SFDC fields. Solution When two SFDC picklist fields are mapped to one field in Marketo, the only values that will show in Marketo will be the values that exist in both picklists.  Review the picklist values in Salesforce and add any missing values to the picklists so that they match exactly. This could happen in situations where the field in Marketo is mapped to a SFDC picklist field on leads as well as a SFDC field on contact/account.
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Issue You send yourself an email and when you click the link, it goes to your fallback landing page instead of the intended URL. Solution This can be caused by an extra space being added to the end of the URL in the email The URL should show a %20 where the space is, so simply deleting the space will fix the problem    
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Issue You need to know if Salesforce Group Edition is compatible with Marketo. Solution Having a look at the comparison between the Group Edition and Professional Edition: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.packagingGuide.meta/packagingGuide/dev_package_features_pe_ge.htm We can see that a lot of features from the Professional Edition have been stripped in the Group Edition, mainly the removal of Workflows, Campaigns and Custom profiles. These will most likely hinder how the Marketo CRM Connector operates. The minimum would to be to have the Professional edition when syncing a native Salesforce CRM as per our Documentation on Sync Setup. https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Setup      
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Issue You have recently added a new field to a SFDC Custom Object which is synced to Marketo, but you do not see that new field available on the object in Marketo. Solution To have the new fields pulled over to Marketo, disable your SFDC global sync within Marketo and then refresh schema for custom objects. This should pull over the new fields on that custom object to Marketo. Once the schema is refreshed, please make sure that the global sync is turned back on. We would also suggest that you refer the below document which will guide you on the above steps. However, the below document is meant for first custom object sync. The same steps need to follow up for the existing object sync as well. SFDC Sync: Custom Object Sync  
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Issue Is it possible to download the most recent report from the Smart List subscription email report? Solution If you click the Download Report button, it will be a static link containing the Smart List data at the time the subscription was sent. If you want real-time data, click the Smart List URL in the report email and then export the list.  
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Issue You have been utilizing the default tracking links to send Emails to leads in Marketo and decide to change the default tracking link to your own branding tracking. When you do so, this breaks the links in emails you have already sent. Solution The branding tracking link should be one of the first steps that the customer(s) need to do when they obtain their instances. If you decided to change the default tracking link to a branded tracking link after utilizing them in emails, you should be prepared in advance that any email sent prior to the change will generate the 404 Error. We recommend not sending any emails within a week or two of the change so that an email sent on Monday is then broken on Tuesday.  
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Issue What happens if you log off (close) Marketo when importing a large amount of data through list import? Will it be processed or resume when you log back in? Solution It will keep running if you log off.  Next time when you have a large list to import, we would recommend sending a notification to yourself.  There is a little box you can put your email address in right when you start the import, it will email you when the import is done.        
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Issue What is the typical sync interval timing? Is there a timing difference between updates and inserts? If the change originates in SFDC vs MKTO? Solution By default the sync interval in Marketo is set to 5 minutes. This can be set to be greater than 5 minutes on request. Now this doesn't mean that Marketo will sync updates every 5 minutes, it means that there will be approximately a 5 minute wait after one sync cycle finishes and and the next sync cycle begins. The duration that an individual sync cycle will take depends on how many records for each object need to be updated/created. Remember flow actions in smart campaigns are immediate, so if you ever don't want to wait for the background sync for a specific lead or set of leads then you could always run an intimidate flow action, just bear in mind that flow actions use 1 API call per lead record whereas the background sync is much more efficient and can handle 200 records with just one API call.    
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Issue Sometimes, you may receive an auto response from an email that has been sent through a batch campaign. The auto response email will not show the lead's email address instead it does contain the HTML of the email along with the Marketo decorated link. Is there a way to decipher this to determine which lead record this corresponds to?   Solution You could try opening a new browser window and either clear your cookies first or use the browser's private browsing feature (makes a cookie sandbox) so you don't confuse Marketo and tie that person's lead to you by accident. Anyways, in your cookie-free browser, click the link and then go to a form that Marketo prefills for you and you may see the email address that was originally targeted.    
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Issue Leads with the same first and last name are not showing up in the Possible Duplicates list. Solution For leads to be in Possible Duplicates, they need to have the same email address which is the unique identifier in Marketo.  This is the only matching that Marketo does. If the first and last name are the same and one is missing the email address or has a different email address, Marketo will not recognize this as a duplicate.
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Issue Visit Web Page activity is tracked and showing up for one subdomain on your site, example.marketo.co, on a record but it is not recording activities for a different subdomain, pages.marketo.co.     Solution The reason that this behavior is taking place is because the domain that is being utilized has a two letter top level domain "example.co". For domains that end with a two letter suffix, “example.co”, the Munchkin script is setting the tracking cookie to the third domain level by default. This is to take into account two letter country codes such as “.jp”, “.us”, “.cn”, and “.uk”. This means that when someone visits “info.example.co”, the Munchkin script will assign a new cookie to “info.example.co” instead of “example.co”. When someone visits or is referred to a different subdomain, such as "pages.example.co” it will create a new cookie for this domain “pages.example.co”. To prevent this from taking place you will need to add the Munchkin Initialization Parameter setting the “domainLevel” to “2”. This will cause the cookie to be set to the second domain level “example.co” when visiting either the Marketo or non-Marketo hosted landing pages. Details about the Munchkin Initialization Parameters can be found in this Developers Doc: http://developers.marketo.com/javascript-api/lead-tracking/configuration/#domainlevel_property Since the Marketo hosted landing pages will, by default, use the same 3 third level domain behavior, you will need to disable tracking at your template level using the steps at the end of this article: http://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Create+a+Free-form+Landing+Page+Template   This will disable the default tracking that all landing pages get in Marketo. Then, similar to external landing pages, your team will need to add the Munchkin tracking code to your Marketo templates, where you would have control to set the domain level to 2 (instead of 3). Once this has been updated on both the external landing pages and Marketo hosted landing pages, the tracking cookies will be set at the second domain level and work across the various sub-domains.   Who This Solution Applies To Customers with two letter domains    
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Issue When editing a form, a field called 'x' is visible. However, when previewing the form, the field is not visible. Solution The reason why the field 'x' in the form edit mode was not visible when previewing the form because the form that was being previewed was the approved version which did not contain the field 'x'. The field 'x' was in the draft version of the form, which needed to be approved in order to see it in the preview of the approved version of the form.  
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Issue You have developed a Marketo landing page and enabled Personalized URLs (PURLs) for your records but when people visit the PURL, form pre-fill does not take place.   Solution When a person visits a PURL landing page, the form pre-fill checks their Munchkin tracking cookie to identify what values to populate for the form fields. If that person has a Munchkin tracking cookie associated to a known record in the database, it will pull and populate the information from that record. However, if this is the first time this person has visited a Munchkin tracked page or their browser is tied to an anonymous record, the pre-fill will not populate any information into the form. The customer/prospect will need to fill out a form or click on a tracked link in an email sent from Marketo. This will allow future PURLs that people visit going forward will have pre-fill populate as their cookie will be tied to a known record in the database. The web page visit will be associated back to the know record for the PURL. Additionally, you can also use Person related tokens on the landing page and those will resolve. For examples having the token in the text that states {{lead.First Name:default=Default}} within the body of the landing page will populate with the expected persons first name for the PURL they visited. This is because the token generation goes through a different path on the back end for PURLs.    
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1. Navigate to https://status.adobe.com    2. Click Manage Subscriptions      3. Sign in using your Adobe credentials or click Create an Account to log in                                     4. Click Create Subscriptions       5. Under Experience Cloud, click on Adobe Marketo Engage to expand:   6. Select Product Offerings or Services and click Continue                                         Prior to selecting a regional location(s), you will want to identify what data center and pod/server your instance is located in. You can access this information from the Adobe Marketo Engage Admin tab. After clicking on this tab from the menu at the top of the page, select My Account on the left rail:            Scroll down to the Support Information section to see the data center and pod in which your instance is located:  The example above indicates that this instance is in our Ashburn data center on pod 38. This user would select the regional location Marketo Ashburn, and then pod AB38, as shown below.    The abbreviations for all of our data centers are as follows:  ab = Ashburn  sj = San Jose  sn = Sydney  lon = London  nld = Amsterdam   NOTE: This method can also be used to identify what Real Time Personalization (RTP) pod/server your instance is in.      7. Select regional location(s) and event type(s): Major Service Issues indicate service unavailability or severe performance degradation for multiple users on production systems. Minor Service Issues indicate partial service unavailability or moderate performance degradation for multiple users on production systems.     8. Select the environment(s) you would like to subscribe to and click Continue       9. Review your subscription preferences and click Confirm preferences 
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Issue General recommendations for managing and improving deliverability to China.     Solution If you are looking for general recommendations around delivering to China, here are some resources both from our Community and external sources. Navigating email delivery into China Golden Shield Project overview Sampi China Email Marketing and Chinese Anti-Spam Laws Summary English language version of the Measures for Administration of Email Service on Internet Lehman, Lee & Xu English language version of the Measures for the Administration of Internet E-mail Services 2006
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Issue You are using choices within flow steps with parameters such as "Member of Program" and the lead is qualifying for the choice when they are not part of the program. Solution When using a flow step for a campaign, you have the option of adding "choices" to the flow step so different leads can have different interactions. When using a choice parameter such as "Member of Engagement Program" or "Program Status". If the lead has been part of ANY engagement program, or has EVER had a program status equal to the parameter (i.e program status is email > sent), then the lead will qualify for that step. To prevent outside leads from being pulled in, use the "Member of Program" filter in your campaign Smart List to make sure content is delivered to your intended audience.  
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Issue Attempting to push a custom audience to Facebook results in a Facebook Authorization Error visible in Notifications. Some custom audiences can be pushed and it appears to be only affecting a certain Ad account.     Solution Issue Resolution 1.) Check if the Custom Audience Terms (facebook.com/legal/terms/customaudienc) have been accepted 2.) Log in as the user used in the Facebook Custom Audience service in Marketo and check in Audience Manager to see if there are any custom audiences that have the "Accept Terms" button pop-up similar to this screenshot.   3.) As per our recent release notes at docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Release+Notes%3A+Winter+%2719: "Facebook now requires a Business Manager account in order to leverage your Custom Audience integration. Your Facebook LaunchPoint service must be associated with a Business Manager account or your integration will no longer work after January 14, 2019. To set up a Business Manager account, please refer to Facebook Help." 4.) Check if the user used in the Facebook Custom Audience service in Marketo is a Business Manager account 5.) After completing the checks above, try to push a custom audience again to the affected ad account. If unsuccessful, recreate the Facebook service and test to push a custom audience from there.
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Issue You are trying to configure Marketo and Okta for SSO, but encounter errors. Solution 1. Log in to Okta and go to the admin section. 2. Click "add applications" then "create new app" (Do not use the community sourced Marketo app) 3. For platform select "web" and for signon method select "SAML 2.0" 4. Name the app "Marketo" (or any name you prefer) and upload the Marketo logo you would like to see displayed on the login tile, then click next 5. In "SAML Setttings" for the Single sign on URL you will want: login.marketo.com/saml/assertion/<YOURMUNCHKINHERE> . For the Audience URI you will want: saml.marketo.com/sp Default Relay State can be left blank. For Name ID format select "email" or "emailAddress" and for application username you will want to select email (Be sure that your Okta user email matches what is in the login field for your Marketo user within Admin > Users & Roles). Leave attribute statements unused. 6. Select finish and you should be brought to a page where you can select either "view setup instructions or identity provider metadata". 7. One of those links mentioned in the last step will take you to a page where you can retrieve the issuer ID which will be put in the Marketo settings (under both Issuer ID and Entity ID) as well as the certificate you will need to download and then upload into your Marketo SSO configuration. 8. Once you have set the issuer id, entity id, and certificate as described above, confirm that your Marketo User ID Location is set to Subject and then enable SSO. When you hit "save" in the SAML settings window in Marketo, the popup may not close, but your settings are retained and the window can be closed (if you would like to confirm it was saved, you can reload the page and will see the new saved settings) 9. When you first setup SSO it is preferable to have all the SSO users available to confirm there are no issues with a particular user in an otherwise operational SSO configuration. However, if SSO works for one user, then the overall configuration is set correctly. Disclaimer: Marketo Support does not support 3rd party products, and cannot configure an SSO Identity Provider on your behalf. This document exists to aid users in configuring SSO, however, no guarantees are made that these setup steps will work.     Who This Solution Applies To Okta Users, SSO users
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Issue Description When sending an email through the ToutApp Panel within Salesforce, what email server is used? Issue Resolution The Salesforce plugin will utilize the settings for your ToutApp.com sends. In ToutApp.com you can choose to send via the ToutApp Servers or via your company's outgoing email server.
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Issue Issue Description Occasionally, one leads information may be shown when the form has pre-fill enabled. There are specific circumstances where this is possible, and it is most common during testing. These articles outline the scenarios: Why am I seeing someone else's information pre-filled in my form? Troubleshooting Pre-Fill Forms   However, what if the information in the form is submitting to the original lead whose information was shown on the form?     Solution Issue Resolution Since the information originally shown in the form was from a cookie, Marketo assumes this is a known record. If no email address is included on the form (this is a bad idea), the data entered into the form will be submitted to the original record shown because there is not an email address to deduplicate against. The solution is to ensure there is an email address on the form. This also prevents leads who are unknown from filling out the form and creating a record in your database with no email address.        
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