Summary
This article explains why certain Company fields show up on the Person/Lead Object when you do a describe API call to Marketo.
Issue
When making the Describe call on the Lead object in Marketo (/rest/v1/leads/describe.json),
several Company object fields are returned along with the Lead object fields.
Environment
Marketo REST API
Solution
This is expected behavior. Users can utilize the
Describe Leads call to retrieve a
full list of the fields available for interaction via the REST API.
Several areas within Marketo treat custom Company fields as though they were on the Person/Lead object. For example if you were doing a Bulk Import, you can target the Company and Person/Lead fields and you have the ability to update Company field values as if you were changing it manually on a Person record in the UI.
Root Cause
This is expected behavior, due to how the Describe call retrieves all
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