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What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

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Nate_Oosterhous
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What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

Question:

What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

Background:

I am going through renaming old programs to abide by our new naming structure, however, I just noticed when I now run an email performance report on the old programs emails the emails still have the old program name.  This has me worried.  Doesn't his complicate things??

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Josh_Hill13
Level 10 - Champion Alumni

Re: What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

Naming is supposed to be instant and non-impactful across the instance. It's only a variable. The ID# in the URL is the real asset id and Marketo sees the Name as a pointer variable.

Perhaps your report did not refresh?

Now, I have been somewhat careful with our instance on renaming old and important programs even though I know there should be ZERO impact.

I have seen issues with MOVING large numbers of programs at once. The move just fails, no breaking. But moving folders and programs could break your inherited tokens.

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Josh_Hill13
Level 10 - Champion Alumni

Re: What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

Naming is supposed to be instant and non-impactful across the instance. It's only a variable. The ID# in the URL is the real asset id and Marketo sees the Name as a pointer variable.

Perhaps your report did not refresh?

Now, I have been somewhat careful with our instance on renaming old and important programs even though I know there should be ZERO impact.

I have seen issues with MOVING large numbers of programs at once. The move just fails, no breaking. But moving folders and programs could break your inherited tokens.

Josh_Hill13
Level 10 - Champion Alumni

Re: What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

And unless it's needed, I rarely do a mass re-name on older programs.

Nate_Oosterhous
Level 7

Re: What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

Hi Josh,

That was it.  My report wasn't refreshing for whatever reason.  It had me worried of a minute!  Thanks!