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Issue When using the [mktorest.com/rest/asset/v1/emailTemplates.json] end-point to pull all Email templates, the COUNT is much less than what is shown in Marketo's Design Studio Global Search.   Solution This is the expected behavior. When viewing the total count of Email templates in the Design Studio UI, it will count EACH shared template that is shared across other workspaces, counting the same template multiple times depending on how many workspaces it's shared to. However, when retrieving the Email Templates from the REST API, it will only return DISTINCT Email Template ID's from the originating shared workspace where the template resides. It will not return the templates from the shared workspaces. Root Cause REST API Expected Behavior
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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. This is a article attached image 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 Issue Description "${button-link}" appears on the Email Link Performance report in place of the URL the buttons point to.     Solution Issue Resolution To stop this "${button-link}" from appearing on the reports, edit the text version of the emails to replace the "${button-link}" with the URL the button points to. This occurs because the text version of the email didn't get edited to provide a valid button link. The "${button-link}" value is part of HTML templates and if the setting 'Copy HTML to Text version of email' is checked then those values get copied across. From there, if the text version doesn't get edited or reviewed after that copy over happens, tracked links for "http://${button-link}?mkt_tok=..." will be sent out for those leads that get the text version of the email in place of the URL the button points to. The next question after hearing this solution is often, "If this is just for the text version, who is reading the text version of emails?", and the answer is that it's probably automated link scanners or security software visiting the link and triggering the click to show on reports. 
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If you sent an email from the Lead Database (as a Single Flow Action), as part of a campaign, or as a test email but didn't receive it, here are some tips.   Check the "From:" address   When sending a test message, make sure to check the "From:" address setting on your message. To do this, go to the Email Settings tab of the email editor. In the "From:" field, make sure that you either have a single valid email address, or a valid email address as the default, if you are using a token.   Many people want to send their messages from the lead owner. When you use the send test feature, the email address you are sending to doesn't have a full lead record, and so it doesn't have a lead owner. Since Marketo cannot send an email with no "From:" address, test messages without a valid email address in the "From:" field will not send.   Send as a Lead   If you have verified that the email had a valid From: address and you still aren't getting it, make sure to create yourself as a lead and send using a flow action.   See if the mail was sent   If you sent the email as part of a campaign or Single Flow Action, check the campaign's Results tab or your lead detail page to see if that mail was already sent to you. If it hasn't been sent yet, try waiting a little while longer.   Check your Junk Mail   In your email client, check your Junk Mail or Spam folder to see if the mail landed there. If it did, you should change the content of your email.   Check your corporate spam filter   Your corporate mail server may have blocked emails from Marketo; you should contact your IT department to see if this is the case. Please see our instructions for whitelisting Marketo's email servers: Add Marketo to Your Corporate Email Whitelist   Try sending to a different recipient   If you sent the original mail to your corporate account, try sending to a personal account on Yahoo or Gmail. If you sent it to a personal account, try your corporate mail account.    Use Marketo's Email Deliverability product   The Email Deliverability PowerPack, with Design Informant and Inbox Informant, can warn you when your mail is being rejected because of its content and help you identify junk mail pitfalls. Also, using Domain Keys and SPF improve the chances of your email landing in your leads' inboxes.   Contact Marketo   If you still can't figure out what happened contact Marketo to see if we can help.
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Issue You have multiple domains for your landing page CNAMES and want to choose which one is used for a landing page. Solution First, you will need to make sure your secondary domains are set up with a CNAME and a domain alias. You don't choose a domain when creating the page.  All pages are created under the default/original landing page domain, but they're all available from all domain aliases as well. Swapping out the default domain with the domain alias in the URL will take you to the same page.  You find more detail on this here - Multiple Domains (CNAMEs) in a Single Marketo Instance  
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Issue You created a picklist field in SFDC and want to know if that field will sync down to Marketo with the field type of picklist.     Solution Marketo has a picklist option in form fields, but not in Lead Database fields. When you sync a field from SFDC that has the type of picklist, this field will show in Marketo with a type of String. However, when you create a form, the field type for your field will show as "select," which is a picklist.  
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Issue There are multiple forms on a Marketo landing page. No custom code on any of the assets. Form Pre-fill is enabled on all fields, but only the first form on the landing page is being pre-filled. Solution Marketo does not support using multiple Marketo forms on a Marketo landing page. Pre-fill gets messy with multiple forms is because we only pull pre-fill for the first form that we load.
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Issue Issue Description Landing Page is not selectable as a Web Page constraint value for a Fills Out Form trigger.   Solution Issue Resolution Check if Landing Page is Approved Check if Landing Page is within the same workspace as the Smart Campaign with the Fills Out Form trigger [Note: this condition is only applicable if there are workspaces within the instance] Check if Landing Page is NOT within an archived folder Check if Landing Page has a form associated with it. If not, then it will not appear as a selectable option as Web Page constraint. While it is possible that a form can be inserted directly into the HTML of the landing page template, the landing page will not be associated with the form in this way.   This is a article attached image For a Landing Page to be a selectable option as a Web Page constraint it must be associated with a form by inserting the form to the landing page via the UI as illustrated in our docs below: http://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Add+a+New+Form+to+a+Free-Form+Landing+Page http://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Add+a+Form+to+a+Guided+Landing+Page This is a article attached image
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Issue After adding an IFrame to an email in the Marketo email editor, the IFrame seems to disappear when you view the email in an email client (such as Outlook, Apple Mail, or Gmail).     Solution The reason why you can see the IFrame in Marketo but not in your email client is because not all email clients support IFrames. If yours does not support them, the IFrame will be blocked and will not appear in the email. You can try viewing the email in another email client to see the IFrame.
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Issue Marketo Forms embedded on non-Marketo web page do not show up when using Firefox private browsing.   Solution Marketo forms and Munchkin tracking are inserted into non-Marketo pages via Javascript. If the browser privacy settings block the script from executing, Marketo forms and tracking will not work.  Marketo is not able to override a customer's browser security settings. The alternatives are as follows: Create a non-Marketo form on the web page Use a backend form submission to push the info in the form into Marketo. Instructions for doing so can be found here: http://developers.marketo.com/blog/make-a-marketo-form-submission-in-the-background/  
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Issue How to move Design Studio assets when migrating to a new instance. Solution Clone the assets into a Program, then import the Program into the new instance. For Forms, make sure the fields also exist in the destination instance. Same for Lead tokens in Emails/LPs. Dynamic Content & snippets are not supported in Program Import.
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Issue Using a browser with JavaScript disabled causes display and validation problems with Marketo forms.     Solution When JavaScript is disabled in a browser, it can cause a couple of different behaviors. For embedded forms, the form will not load on the page because it is loaded by JavaScript. For non-embedded forms on a Marketo landing page, the form will load but it will be a bare bones version of the form that does not validate field input, because validation is handled by JavaScript. If you want to display a message to users with JavaScript disabled, you can use the “noscript” tag to display a message that prompts users to enable it in order to render the page correctly: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_noscript.asp Here’s an example using that with an embedded form: <script src="//app-sjst.marketo.com/js/forms2/js/forms2.min.js"></script> <form id="mktoForm_1001"></form> <script>MktoForms2.loadForm("//app-sjst.marketo.com", "507-ILX-247", 1001);</script> <noscript>You have JavaScript disabled! Please enable JavaScript for the best experience on this site.</noscript>   For a Marketo landing page, I added an HTML Element with just the last line from the example above: <noscript>You have JavaScript disabled! Please enable JavaScript for the best experience on this site.</noscript>   Alternatively, you can use a redirect solution like this, which will send users with JavaScript disabled to another page: <html> <head> <noscript> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.marketo.com"> </noscript> </head> <body> <p>Fancy redirect page if JavaScript is not detected.</p> </body> </html>  
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Issue After setting up visibility rules on a form, you are not seeing the dynamic values for the field when you are testing the form. Solution The most likely reason that the dynamic values are not displaying is because of a discrepancy between the visibility rules and the field values. The value for the visibility rule must match the field values.   Example: A common example of this is Country/State dynamic visibility. Based on the Country selected, the State field will show with dynamic values. So say that on the form, there are 50 values for the State field and there are also specific values under the visibility rules that are associated with the Country selection. It is likely that the values in the visibility rules do not match up with these 50 field values. If you select US and the dynamic values are the full State names, such as California, but the value in the State field is CA, the visibility rules will be attempting to display a value that does not exist.   The solution is to either change the visibility rules' values, or change the field values, so that the values match.    
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Issue The "View In Browser" link gives an error "Customer does not belong to any POD" when clicked in the Email Preview.     Solution When you Preview an Email you are viewing the layout of the email, but system tokens will not function. When you send a Sample Email, you can test everything as if you are the customer including the system tokens {{system.viewAsWebpageLink}} .
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Issue You want to break the link between an email and the template originally used to create it.   Solution If you need to delete an email template, or if you need to break the relationship between a template and an email to prevent template changes from affecting the email, you can do the following.   Open the email in the Email Editor If you have Email 2.0, click Edit Code.  If you have the legacy Email Editor, click Email Actions > HTML Tools > Replace HTML.  This will allow you to directly edit the HTML for the email. Make a small edit to the email's HTML outside of the mkteditable sections. Save your changes.  If you are concerned that the edit you made will affect the email, you can save the change, re-edit to undo the change, then save again. When you go back to the summary page for the email, the Template: line should now say "None". PLEASE NOTE: It is not possible to reverse this change.  They link between the email and the template cannot be re-established once it is broken.      
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Issue Issue Description Google is changing production of their robots.txt parser to an open source format and removing support for some widely used but unsupported  code:   In the interest of maintaining a healthy ecosystem and preparing for potential future open source releases, we're retiring all code that handles unsupported and unpublished rules (such as noindex) on September 1, 2019. For those of you who relied on the noindex indexing directive in the robots.txt file, which controls crawling, there are a number of alternative options:   -Link to Blog Post from Google: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/07/a-note-on-unsupported-rules-in-robotstxt.html?m=1     Solution Issue Resolution This should not affect any Marketo Landing pages if the Noindex, NoFollow code has been put in the Robots meta tags as per the documentation: https://developers.marketo.com/blog/block-crawling-and-search-indexing-of-a-marketo-landing-page/ This will only affect your landing pages if NoIndex, NoFollow are in the robots.txt file and not in the header meta tags.
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Issue Issue Description Get the error 'Cannot get email content- Customer does not belong to any POD' when the URL from the 'view as webpage' link is forwarded for review     Solution Issue Resolution This is expected behavior as of the 2019Q1 release. After clicking on the view as webpage link, the mkt_tok value will be removed. Attempts at sharing the URL after this point will fail. The mkt_tok value should not be shared. It uniquely identifies the recipient.  This is a security enhancement.  The preferred method is to use Send Sample to send the email to teammates, or forward the email.
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Issue An embedded Marketo form on your company website showed up in the past, but is now not showing on the page.     Solution Embedded forms may not show if you have mixed content on your website (meaning that your website is using HTTPS, but the embedded form from Marketo is using HTTP). To resolve this, you need to ensure the content from Marketo is also using a secure connection. You can purchase an SSL certificate to use for your Marketo forms by contacting your Customer Success Manager/Sales Account Manager.    
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Issue Updating an Email Template is creating a draft for existing emails without the desired changes     Solution When changes are made to an Email Template in the Design Studio that is already in use and those changes are approved, it will create a Draft for any existing Email that was created from that Template. If the draft is not reflecting changes you would like to see made, you may have included the changes within a mktEditable or Editable class <div> tag. The content within a mktEditable class element within an email template are ignored from any changes as they are considered to be "default content". Any content within these elements will not see any changes made to them based on changes to the template, and will only be seen when creating a new Email asset. You can update an editable section to remove it's editable status, however this will remove any changes to the content done in any email. You can see which elements can be classified as Editable here: https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Email+Template+Syntax    
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Issue When forwarding email that was received via Marketo to other people, the email does not render the same in the recipient's email client. Solution This can happen when forwarding emails, as the email rendering capabilities depend upon the email client that recipient uses. HTML and CSS can be interpreted differently by different email clients. As noted in the comment below Some clients' HTML parsers don't understand all types of markup, for example an HTML4-level client will not recognize HTML5 elements. Some HTML elements and CSS rules are deliberately ignored, even if the underlying parser and (in the case of webmail) browser supports them completely The HTML markup is can be changed, sometimes drastically, from the original markup before being displayed for security reasons   With that said, you can code against some of these anomalies by adding extra code in CSS to account for the differences. Marketo Support is not set up to assist with troubleshooting custom code as we are not web developers. We would suggest that you consult with an HTML/CSS designer to make these changes. To ensure that the existing email templates are coded to comply with different email clients, it is advisable to consult with a web developer/designer to review the code. Here is a guide that you may find helpful: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css Furthermore, even if the clients are the same, the act of forwarding an email can itself change the HTML of the email.  However, Marketo does have a workaround for this. You would just need to put the ‘Forward to Friend' link directly into an email and when the person forwards the email using this link, there is a reduced possibility of the rendering issue occurring.  It also adds the forwarded email address to your Lead Database as an unsubscribed lead. The below article covers adding the ‘Forward to Friend’ link to your emails https://docs.marketo.com/display/DOCS/'Forward+to+a+Friend+Link'+in+Emails    
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