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Issue -Error editing image in email: “image URL does not exist” or “image URL cannot be found”   Environment -SSL not enabled on Marketo instance -Browser blocks unsecured content Solution Option 1 -Set up SSL for landing pages (Recommended!  SSL should be a baseline configuration for all landing pages and tracking domains). Add SSL to Your Landing Pages | Adobe Marketo Engage Option 2 (Not recommended!   Warning! This is a security risk.) -Allow browser to view unsecured content (can choose to turn this setting back off in the browser after viewing the content) This link below describes how to enable this content in Chrome. https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/target/using/experiences/vec/troubleshoot-composer/mixed-content.html This link below describes how to enable this content in Firefox. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mixed-content-blocking-firefox Option 3 -Try to use a different browser or try turning off all browser extensions. Root Cause This issue could be caused by SSL not being enabled. If the issue was sudden, and SSL is enabled, it is likely due to the browser needing an update. Check if there are any updates that need to be done.
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Issue When trying to edit an email you are receiving the error "Cannot Load Email" with out any other details. This is only when trying to edit the email, other functionalities like cloning still work.   Solution The reason you are receiving this error message is because the HTML of the email has been corrupted. Extract the HTML of the email by following the instructions here: https://docs.marketo.com/display/DOCS/Download+an+Email's+HTML Find the email and select it In the Email Actions Drop down click Download HTML Once the emails HTML is extracted you can check on the errors by pushing the HTML through a validator (https://validator.w3.org/) **If no Errors are evident please create a support ticket. If there are errors but you would still like to use the HTML in an email.   Create a new email, replace the HTML with the extracted content from the old email Append the HTML to resolve any errors that would corrupt the content Save and Approve Email for use in campaigns and programs   Root Cause Sometimes emails can become corrupted in Marketo. When this occurs unexpected behavior may occur. Typically emails become corrupted when a copy of a copy of a copy (etc.) occurs. With each clone of an asset there is a small chance that the asset could become corrupted, this becomes more and more likely as clones of clones are made. A solution to help prevent corruption would be to create a 'master' email that you can clone from each time instead of cloning from something else that was cloned. This same solution can be applied to other assets such as landing pages. 
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Issue You receive a page with the error "Cannot get email content" when visiting View as Webpage link in email. Solution The view as webpage link is tied to the original email asset when it was sent.   Occasionally customers will say they're receiving an error message when visiting the link like so: This is a article attached image   There are multiple reasons this can happen:   The email was a sample send of a draft of an email that no longer exists. It was discarded, or approved. The email asset was deleted You tried to use the view as webpage token from MSI. Root Cause This issue occurs when the visit webpage link is trying to refer to an email or email version that no longer exists either because it was deleted, replaced or approved.
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An email being filtered to a quarantine or bulk mail folder happens after the recipient mail server has accepted message.  Once an email has been accepted by a mail server, it is impossible to tell where it went or what happened to it.  Note that this is true of any mail sent by any system on the Internet.   Every mail server has configurable filters that determine how received mail will be handled.  The mail server administrator should be able to adjust those filters to ensure delivery of emails based on their business standards, or there may even be end-user-configurable controls that can accomplish the same thing.   If test mailings you are sending to yourself or your colleagues are being filtered to a quarantine or bulk mail folder, you should consider asking your email administrator to whitelist Marketo’s IP ranges.  They can be found here.   You can also improve your deliverability in general by setting up SPF and DKIM records, and branding your tracking links.
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Issue External tracked webpages are not showing up in "Visited Webpage" or "Filled Out Form" Smart List filter. Solution Munchkin tracked pages will not show up in Smart List filters until a known lead visits the webpage. To make sure the webpage shows up, do the following: Make sure that you have the Munchkin tracking code on those webpages. Use a test lead to visit the page and you may have to fill out a form or send an email to the lead to make sure that the lead is tracking on your machine. Check the test lead's activity history to make sure the visit is logged. Try entering the webpage in the filter again. Note :- Customizing Munchkin code can also be responsible for the same.
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Issue If your Smart Lists are processing slowly, you may be able to speed them up using Segmentations for exclusion lists.     Solution Many companies maintain email exclusion lists based on a number of criteria. In Marketo, these are often set up using Smart Lists that are then referenced in "Member of Smart List" filters. However, Smart Lists that reference other Smart Lists can be slow to resolve. Using a Segmentation for your exclusion lists instead of Smart Lists can help your campaigns and programs run more efficiently. Instructions for setting up Segmentations can be found here: Create a Segmentatio.  You can then use the Segmentation filters in your Smart List rather than the "Member of Smart List" filters: Use Segment Filters in a Smart List.
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Issue You are trying to identify your most active leads and set up a Smart List with an "Opened Email" or "Clicked Email" filter using "Email 'Is Any'" and a "Min number of Times" constraint, but are not sure if results are based on individual emails or 'all' emails in the 'Date of Activity' range.     Solution These filters read from the Activity log so the min number of times constraint is based on all emails for a given record For instance, consider a record that has received Email 1 twice and Email 2 once. To meet the minimum qualifying threshold of three, the record qualifies since it has a total of three email send activities (two from Email 1 and one from Email 2). The same criterion applies to click activities. Note: An open activity is recorded only once per email per record. For further details, you can read more here .    
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Issue You want to measure who clicks a specific link that uses a query string from a landing page, but when you try to use this logic in a smart campaign or smart list, it tells you the URL can’t be found, even though you can see the URL embedded on the landing page.   Solution If you are using the link "marketo.com/company/contact/?firstname=test", then you need to seperate the url into the link and the query string. The root domain (Link in the filter/trigger) will be marketo.com/company/contact/ and the query string (from Add Constraint dropdown) will be firstname=test. This will allow you to correctly track the links you are wanting. Make sure that you have the correct Web Page associated as a constraint as well. This is a article attached image This is a article attached image   For a better understanding of what query strings are, they are the parameters that are preceded by the "?" in the url. Detailed Doc :- on UTMs and Query string parameters :- Tracking Lead Sources Using UTM Parameters    
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Issue Issue Description Unable to create a subscription for static list.     Solution Issue Resolution While Subscriptions are not directly available for static lists and are only for Smart Lists and reports, you can create a Smart List that uses the filter 'Member of List' and then create the subscription on the Smart List instead.
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List imports can fail for a number of different reasons, so finding what that reason was is the first step to fixing what went wrong. When a list import fails to import leads, the Import Status dialog box will give you an error to tell you that some of the leads failed to import. The “Failed: X Leads” showing in the Import Status dialog box is a hyperlink.   This is a article attached image   When you click on the hyperlink, it will download an Excel file that carries the details of what caused the failure. The details for the import failure will change depending on the different types of issues, so watch for the explanations in the far right column for each lead on the list.   Invalid data for the field type: This is a article attached image   Invalid Email Address Warning: This is a article attached image   Lead belongs to a different Lead Partition: This is a article attached image
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Issue You added yourself to the Send Alert To portion of the List Import process and continue to receive unwanted Alert Emails every time a list is imported.         Solution During the next List Import process to the problem Static List in Marketo, you'll want to select the Edit Send Notification from the window that pops up in the top right section of your screen after the import process is started. Selecting the Edit Send Notification will cause a new window to open up that shows all of the email addresses who will be sent an Alert Email once the import completes.     If you no longer want to receive the Alert Emails for this static list going forward, deleteyour email address and click save.    
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My export is going to take a long time, do I have to stay logged in until it completes? Thankfully no, once you get your Import or Export started, you can log out, go grab some coffee or go home and the process will continue. Export: When you start the export process, you can close out of Marketo, later in the day or the following day you can log back into Marketo, find the same SmartList or StaticList you ran the export from, select it, click on List Actions and choose "Show Export Status". The Export dropdown will show up and assuming it is finished, the download link will be available. 1. Find and Click on the SmartLists or StaticList: 2. Click on List Actions then "Show Export Status": 3. The dropdown will pop open in the top right hand corner with the export status or the download link:   Import: Similarly, you can get an Import started, when you choose the CSV and begin the process the first step is for the file to get uploaded to our server where it will be further processed and imported into the database. Once the file is uploaded and the import process begins, you can close out of Marketo and come back to check on the status in the future instead of staying logged in the entire time. In a similar manner to checking export status, you can click the StaticList you are importing into as follows: 1. Find and Click the SmartList or StaticList you are Importing into: 2. Click on List Actions then "Show Import Status": 3. The dropdown will pop open in the top right hand corner.
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Issue Issue Description You have a record with a "Change Data Value" activity, but that field doesn't have a value on the current record. There's also an anonymous lead merge (which can be identified by looking for a Merge Leads activity and seeing if "Anonymous Source" is True) on the record.   Solution Issue Resolution Check the Change Data Value's "LeadId" field. If this matches the anonymous record's ID (identified from the Merge Leads activity in the "Merge Id" field), then the reason for the value not showing is because upon association of an anonymous lead to a known record, only the activities are merged -- not the values of any fields which may have been recorded as changed.  
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Issue You have been sending live emails (non-samples) to yourself or colleagues to test functionality of an upcoming email blast, and even though you may be opening the email, you are not seeing the open email activity on the Lead Activity Log.     Solution Note that there may be a slight delay between opening the email, and the activity displaying on the Log. Marketo considers an "open" to be when the images in the email are downloaded, specifically a single-pixel tracking image. The recipient may be receiving the emails and viewing them, but not downloading the images. This would not count as an "open."  Please note that since text-only emails have no images, so they will never log an Open activity. If the images are being downloaded, and you are still not seeing the activity after about 5 minutes, check to make sure there are no duplicate leads that are logging the activity instead.  If you need further assistance, please contact Marketo Support.    
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Issue When using Email Insights or other email tracking in Marketo, the device metrics do not always show the proper device that was used to open the email. Marketo tracks opens of emails through a single pixel on the email that when images are loaded it tracks it as an opened email. However your stats don't always show the proper information or client.     Solution Due to the way the pixel is tracked it pulls Email Client version data much in the same way as a web browser obtains what browser visited. The "User Agent" as it is called is a widely adopted standard that email clients use to ID themselves. These strings/ID's are determined by the developer of the Email client. Some email clients have the same string for different operating systems (Gmail for Example). Due to the user agent string, some situations may not always give accurate stats on the device or provider. Inaccurate data is less common with most major email apps and programs. The accuracy of data on some mobile platforms can be harder to differentiate due to the limited user agent data provided by the Email Application program.
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Issue You would like to have a list of leads who will get blocked from receiving emails when you send email via campaign or program due to Communication Limits. Your Communication Limit setup can be found in the Admin Panel and looks something like this.     This is a article attached image   Solution You can create a Smart List with the below setup and this list will show you the list of the people who will hit communication limit when you try to send an email.       This is a article attached image To learn more about Communication Limits and how they work, you can review this article.
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Issue You would like to pull a report of all the non-marketable records that you have in Marketo. Solution You can do this via a Smart List: Use the Any filter in the Smart List. Filters: Block Listed = true Unsubscribed = true Marketing Suspended = true Email Invalid = true Email Address is empty This Smart List will pull all the people that fall into the blocked leads list. You can also add a view in which you can add above mentioned columns to the smart list which will give a view if a record is block listed /unsubscribed etc.  Reference Doc :- Create and Change Views for Lists and Smart List    
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Issue There are several special characters that are rejected by the Marketo system on the backend and which can cause errors or strange behavior when attempting to use them in asset or field names. These characters are: [ ' " < > { } ; ] This is a article attached image     Solution These characters should not be used because they are often used in code and scripting languages. Generally, Marketo will give an error if this is attempted. However, in the event that the name is accepted there is a good chance that you will see some strange behavior when attempting to use the asset or field. There is a large range of different behaviors that can result and they are all very unpredictable, so the best choice of action is to not use these characters with asset or field names at all.    
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Issue Clearing cache and cookies in your browser will fix a number of different problems related to page display, browser errors, and login issues.     Solution Here are links to the support articles on how to clear cache and cookies for the most commonly used browsers. Chrome Clear cache and cookies - Computer - Google Account Help   FireFox How to clear the Firefox cache | Firefox Help   Internet Explorer https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer   Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge, browsing data, and privacy – Microsoft privacy    
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Issue Issue Description After several failed login attempts you are locked out of your Account. You get the message "Account locked due to too many failed login attempts. Reset password and login again."   This is a article attached image     Solution Issue Resolution Marketo Locks a user automatically after 5 failed login attempts. You can either reset the password or have Marketo Support unlock your user from the backend if you know your password.    
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