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Issue You are utilizing Forms on Marketo Landing Pages, and want to run reporting on these forms.     Solution Currently Marketo has reporting for Email assets and Landing Pages. We do not have the ability to report on Forms specifically. One option would be to use Web Page reporting  -  this reported information would be limited to Marketo Pages with numbers of records who filled out the form, listed under "conversions." You could then create a Smart List to identify leads who have filled out these forms.        
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Issue You want to customize the error message shown if a form field is left blank or the wrong type of data is entered. Solution Open the form in Design Studio and select the field you want to update the validation message for. Select "Validation Message" on the right hand side of the screen. In the dropdown menu, select "Custom instead of the default "Standard" and enter your custom error message.        
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Issue You have a Marketo form embedded on a non-Marketo page.  When you open developer tools in your browser you see: "Error loading form: Object error: true errorCode: 400 message: "Subscriber <Your Munchkin ID> is not valid" "   Solution The form embed code you are using is looking for your instance in the wrong place. Check the URL when you first log in to Marketo, make sure the sub domain in that URL matches what is in your embed code. For example: If you see https://app-sjst.marketo.com/ then make sure you have that same "app-sjst" in your embed code. Please note: This may vary between your sandbox and production instances.        
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Issue Is there a way to prevent opening a new browser window when a mailto/email address link in an email is clicked? Solution The reason why the link clicked in an email redirects to a new browser window occurs is because the link is a tracked link. As per design of Marketo tracked links, they are required to be loaded in a browser first which is why the mailtolink/email address clicked is loading in the browser first. If you wish to load the link clicked in the same window and not redirect to a new browser window, you will need to disable tracking on the link. https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Disable+Tracking+for+an+Email+Link    
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Issue You may notice this permission error "You do not have sufficient privileges to perform this action" when previewing an email even though the user role has permission to access the emails. Solution This can happen when the user role didn't have any access to the lead database as shown in the picture. The user role needs the top-level access to the Lead Database(1 of 15). This is because the email previewer allows one to view the asset as if you were a specific lead, but if you can't see the leads, then the error will trigger. To fix this issue, you would need to provide the user role with top-level access to the lead database.        
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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 You click on a link in a sample email to test form pre-fill, but when you do, the form is not pre-filled. Solution When sending sample emails, the send sample feature does not generate links which are captured by the web browser, so the form pre-fill information is not passed. The test needs to be performed by sending an email using one the features below:   Single Flow Action "Send Email" in a Smart List A Smart Campaign An Email Program Once a live email has been sent and not a sample email, the tracked link which contains the mkt_tok passes the lead info and the form will now pre-fill with that lead's information until the cookies are cleared, a new browser is used or an incognito browser is used.
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Issue Are Marketo forms responsive? Will they auto adjust their layout to the size of the screen depending on if they are mobile or desktop? Solution The form layout can work responsively on mobile and desktop depending on how you have it setup. If your form in whole is never wider than your intended screen size (like a mobile at 480pixels), then the form will not differ on mobile devices from its desktop view. If your form is too wide, you can alter the layout using custom CSS on the form code to make the form fit within the mobile browser screen size bounds. How to edit CSS of a Form is covered here: https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Edit+the+CSS+of+a+Form+Theme    
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Issue Is it possible to remove the .html from landing page URLs?     Solution Yes, the URLs will work without the ".html" suffix.  
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Issue Is it possible to remove the .html from landing page URLs?     Solution Yes, the URLs will work without the ".html" suffix.  
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