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When a user switches to another language in their preferences not everything in Marketo will get translated. Specifically, any object that has an editable name is not automatically translated.   Type of Text Example Translated? Editable Text Programs Seeded Channels Seeded Marketing Activities Folders Progression Statuses Custom Fields No Not Editable Text Standard Fields System Smart Lists General User Interface Yes   When a user views content in a workspace that is not the same as their preferred language, the above table describes what would be translated.
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Issue A landing page is taking a significant time to load. Solution The load time of a landing page is generally due to resources that have a large file size or due to third-party scripts. This can be identified by using tools like https://tools.pingdom.com/ that breaks down the loading time of individual resources and scripts within a landing page. Another way to inspect the loading time of resources and scripts within a landing page is using the network feature of the developer tools in Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari or any other web browser: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/network-performance/reference https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monitor https://developer.apple.com/safari/tools/    
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Issue In the activity log, you see that a lead has been added to a Marketo Custom Object, but in the Custom Object tab there is no data. Solution The reason why that it appears as the custom object data is missing for a lead is because the custom object data becomes disassociated to the lead and associated to another lead when the custom object data is pushed into Marketo. When the custom object data is pushed to Marketo intended for lead A with the same dedupe field value of an existing custom object record associated to lead B, it disassociates it from the lead B and associates it with lead A. Therefore, when looking at lead B that has had an 'Add to Custom Object' activity, but does not have the Custom Object data visible in the Custom Objects tab, it is because the custom object data was associated to another lead.   For example: On Lead A, custom object data is added on x time with the dedupe field value 'test' --> custom object data is associated to this lead and is visible in the Custom Object tab On Lead B, custom object data is added on y time with the same dedupe field value 'test' --> existing custom object data that was created in previous step is now associated to this lead, becomes visible in the Custom Object tab Since the custom object data is moved to this lead, it is no longer visible in the custom object tab for Lead A.
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Issue Issue Description Email Insights Sends page has a column in the list of assets for the Type of asset, but does not define the icon used.    Solution Issue Resolution The Type column in the Sends page in Email Insight is for Batch sends and Triggered sends. Batch email sends are represented by stacks of rectangles, and a Triggered email send is a lightning bolt. 
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Issue Issue Description You try to merge two records in Marketo and a System Error appears ‘Failed to merge leads [Lead ID]'       Solution Issue Resolution One of the reasons why the merge fails is the leads are part of a different account in SFDC. Even though it looks like they belong to the same account, you need to verify their account ID in SalesForce to see if they match. Another possible reason is due to lack of permissions on SFDC.    
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Here are a few helpful tips regarding assigning a record to a queue when using the Sync Person to SFDC flow step:     If the record flowing through the flow step is a Marketo only record a new SFDC lead will be created SFDC Lead any field updates will be synced from Marketo to SFDC and the owner will change to the Queue SFDC Contact a new SFDC lead will be created The value in Marketo for Lead Owner for any records assigned to a SFDC Queue will be empty   Additional resources for learning about the Marketo integration with SFDC.
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Issue Issue Description Outlook plugin gives an install error: "Registration code invalid."     Solution Issue Resolution This is normally caused by a faulty installation or problems with network connection to the Marketo validation servers.   1.    Check to see if you have the correct type. (i.e. if you have a 32-bit office then you have to get the 32-bit download or if you have the 64-bit then you need the 64-bit download.  NOTE: Your Office may not be the same version as your operating system, so be sure to check the Office version specifically.) 2.    The activation code should be used only once. 3.    It should be used with the same email address that the code was sent to. 4.    If the installation does not work, check the mopi.logs for errors. The mopi.logs should be in C:\Program Files\Marketo\Marketo Outlook Add-in. 5.    You may need to uninstall and reinstall the plugin. 6.     If you are behind a firewall or vpn, these can occasionally interfere with the communication between the plugin and the Marketo validation servers.  Retry the process on an alternate network such as a home network or a cellular hotspot.   If you are still unable to resolve the issue, please contact Marketo support.
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Issue Description Email filtering can prevent the delivery of the invitation email to the Sales Insight Outlook Plug-in, preventing end users from being able to activate the plug-in.   Issue Resolution This can be re-mediated by white-listing the trusted IP range from the following document:   docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Setup+Steps#SetupSteps-AskITtoConfigureProtocols   The email invitation return path is determined by the Marketo user who is inviting in the instance. So if there is a restriction on the domain that the email can be sent from you can adjust this by creating a dummy user with a username with the a domain that would qualify for IT restrictions.  Then log in as the dummy user and send the invitation. It will have the dummy address in the From line.   Who This Solution Applies To Outlook Plug-In users Is this article helpful ? YesNo
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Issue Issue Description Getting 'Communication Failure' error popup repeatedly when doing normal operations within the application.   Solution Issue Resolution:   - Disable all browser extensions especially any dealing with ad blockers as they seem to be the primary cause of this issue ("Ghostery" is an example of extension known for blocking multiple Marketo operations/ tasks). - Try to repeat same operations after you have cleaned cache and cookies - (If above option does not work) Try to repeat same operations while using a incognito browser window.  
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This document provides an overview of the recent lead Change Score issue that impacted a subset of customers across our data centers beginning on June 11, 2019. All customers that were impacted were emailed details of the incident on June 20, 2019. If you are unsure if your instance was impacted, please reach out to Marketo support at support.marketo.com.   Impacted Timeframe by Data Center: London data center, June 11, 2019, 4:00 PM PDT - 5:00 PM PDT Sydney data center, June 14, 2019, 3:30 PM PDT - 4:00 PM PDT San Jose & Ashburn data centers, June 14, 2019, 6:30 PM PDT - 7:00 PM PDT   How to identify what data center your instance is located in: You can deduce the server locations by looking at the URL of your instance. The CNAME=the pod or server your instance is on. The example above indicates that this instance is in our Ashburn data center.   The abbreviations for all our data centers are as follows. lon = London sn = Sydney sj = San Jose ab = Ashburn   Service affected: A subset of Marketo customers may have experienced lead score changes that were not being updated. Impacted customers would have received campaign failure notifications in their Marketo subscription. Change Score flow steps that were set to update lead scores would not have been triggered during the impacted time-frame, however, no other flow steps were affected and the remainder of the campaign would have executed as expected.   What happened: This issue originated from an internal logic error during a recent release. This error caused a delay between the database schema update and the code release, resulting in lead score change triggers to be missed.   Remediation: Once the cause was identified, our team immediately began to identify the root cause and potential fixes. Our team created this documentation to educate customers on how to replay the impacted flow steps to update the lead score as needed.    Campaigns that were not triggered during the impacted timeframe will not be automatically replayed. However, customers can create their own smart campaign to update the lead scores as shown below.   Replay Impacted Smart Campaign: 1. Navigate to the Notification center in your instance. 2. Once in the Notification center, look for any campaign failures during the timeframe that the data center your instance is in was impacted as listed above. 3. If the failed campaign contains score changes, then only the Change Score flow steps failed. Every other flow step in that campaign would have worked correctly. You will need to re-run the Change Score flow steps for the leads listed in the campaign failure notification. If you experience any issues with replaying the impacted smart campaigns, please contact Marketo support at support.marketo.com, or through any of the methods listed here.
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Issue You see that a program imported from another instance is missing email or landing page assets. Solution Emails and landing pages with dynamic content and snippets are skipped during the import, because the snippets and dynamic content are not imported with the program.
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Issue When you try to save a report in Revenue Explorer you experience  the following error: "Unable to save your file. Please try again or contact your system administrator for assistance."     Solution In order to save a file in Revenue Explorer you need to to save it in either "My Dashboard" or "My Report". RCE will not allow you to save files in the top-level folders.
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Issue After running a Smart Campaign to delete some records, you don't see any deletion activities in the Results tab.  It appears the campaign did not run. Solution If you ran a Smart Campaign to delete records and the only flow action is to 'Delete Person', you will not see any activities in the campaign results as these activities would be associated to the deleted records. This would lead to the impression that the campaign did not run, even when it did.   In order to check the status of the campaign or if the records were deleted, you can check the 'Run History' of the campaign to see if it has one of the following statuses: "Completed (number of people qualified)" "Running campaign - executing flow"   If the campaign is still running, you can also check the Campaign Queue to see if the campaign is still in the queue.
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Issue Description You want to know how long changing a segment takes. Issue Resolution Segment changes are treated like any other activity that is being queued up and processed to be run. Segment changes have an extremely low priority and can sit in the queue waiting for other activities to finish, so you should wait for some time after making the change before you reference the segment elsewhere.
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Issue When you navigate to Admin>Munchkin, you see option to select Workspace. Why is that? This is a article attached image   Solution People generally use workspsce either because of their companies geographical location or Business Unit. In each case, the separation is because the marketing assets are completely different.  With that said, If you're using Workspaces in your Marketo account, you probably also have separate web presences that correspond to your workspaces. In that case, you can use the Munchkin tracking Javascript to assign your anonymous people to the correct workspace and partition. This is used to differentiate appropriate leads within workspace with the help of appropriate tracking.   If you don't use the special workspace Munchkin code, the people will be assigned to the default partition that was created when your account was set up. It's named "Default" initially, but you might have changed that in your own Marketo account.  You can only use one Munchkin tracking script for a single partition and workspace on a page. Do not include tracking scripts for multiple partitions/workspaces on your website. I would also like to mention that Landing pages created in Marketo automatically contain tracking code, so you don’t need to put this code on them.    
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Issue When searching or grouping a list of leads based on email address filter ‘Contains’ @ sign, you may encountered the different numbers in the ‘People’ tab (result). Environment This behaviour is specific to the email filter as it uses two main indexes; we’ll call them Index 1 and Index 2 when using the contains/not contains operator. Index 1 searches for the entire email address value from beginning to end. This Index is used when the @ character is not included in the list of values. Index 2 searches only for the domain half of the address, which comes after the @ symbol. This Index is used when the @ character is included in the list of values. Solution A suggestion is to create a smart list with two Email Address filters wherein you will have all the ones that do not have the '@' symbol, and for the other, you will include the '@' symbol for the email address and use the logic as 'Any'. That would give you the preferred number of leads in your smart list. Root Cause Marketo database searches for email domains in a way that when using the 'contains' keyword in the 'Email Address' filter, you must make sure that if you are using the '@' symbol in your list of domains that all email domains contain this. If you want to filter for email domains that do not include the '@' symbol, you must make sure that no email domains in your list use the '@' symbol. This behaviour happens when the indexing of the database and the rules that apply to the contains operator.
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Issue You want to know the expected behavior if an email is sent to a lead from a Smart Campaign and then you add that exact same email (with the same email asset ID) to an Engagement Program nurture stream the lead is in. Solution The email will not be sent through the nurture stream, because an Engagement Program will not send the same exact same email to a lead twice, regardless of how it was originally sent. However, Marketo will send a cloned version of that email, since the email asset IDs are different.  
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Issue Advanced Filter for creating web segments is not selectable as an option. Only ALL or ANY filter logic can be selected. Why? Solution In order to select the advanced filter logic for creating a segment, there must be at least three filters in the segment. Otherwise, the option will be 'grayed out' or not selectable. This is similar to smart lists where: "Advanced filter logic is only available if there are three or more filters in your smart list." https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Using+Advanced+Smart+List+Rule+Logic  
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If your lead page layout is incorrectly formatted because the Original Referrer field is too wide or long, follow these steps to correct it. You'll need administrator rights in your Salesforce account.   The following solution will not work in SFDC Professional Edition because it involves removing a Marketo field from the SFDC page layout. In short, you'll create a new custom field in SFDC, then use a formula field to shorten the Original Referrer field instead of the original standard Marketo field. Click on Setup Under App Setup, click on Leads, click on Fields Click on New to create a new custom field Under Data Type: select Formula and click on Next Enter Field label and name (perhaps call it "Original_Referrer_c") Under Formula Return Type, select Text and click on Next Click on Advance Formula Tab Enter the following bold text into the large text box: HYPERLINK(mkto71__Original_Referrer__c,LEFT( mkto71__Original_Referrer__c , 140))   Note: The above formula takes the first 140 characters of the original field (mkto2__Original_Referrer__c) and display it to the 'new" field you're creating. Then, it takes the COMPLETE value from the original field and turns it into a hyper link.
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Article Text Using URL parameters are an important way to organize your web analytics and tracking.   With Marketo Web Personalization, when a web visitor clicks on a personalized Web Campaign we add a parameter to the URL. This parameter is "?iesrc=ctr". Having this parameter allows you to report on your web analytics to see and compare all the clicks on Web Personalization campaigns and overall performance of your personalization strategy.   The Marketo Predictive Content application also includes a URL parameter every time a visitor clicks on predictive content (from the bar, rich media or email). The URL parameter used here is "?iesrc=rcmd".   You can also add your own UTM parameters to the URL link you have in your Web Personalization Campaign or your Predictive Content piece.   The most common URL parameter tools we see customers using is the Google Analytics tool.   In their words "This tool allows you to easily add campaign parameters to URLs so you can track Custom Campaigns in Google Analytics. See: Campaign URL Builder — Google Analytics Demos & Tools". Make sure to follow the best practices: Best Practices for creating Custom Campaigns - Analytics Help    
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