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Issue Issue Description When validating the HTML of a template, you receive an error of 'Error: Nested Editable Element: ...' with the id of the element following causing you to not be able to approve the template.   Solution Issue Resolution This is due to having an element with a 'mkto...' class nested inside another element with a 'mkto...' class. Below is an example:    <div class="mktEditable">      <div class="mktEditable"></div> </div>   You will need to remove the 'mkto...' class reference from one of the elements to be able to pass validation and approve the draft as in the corrected example below:    <div class="mktEditable">      <div class="newClassName"></div> </div>  
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Issue LinkedIn leads generated through LinkedIn Lead Gen form does not populate Inferred State/City/Country values. Solution Use field mapping between Marketo and LinkedIn to make sure inferred State/City/Country fields are mapped to respective LinkedIn fields so that they are captured in Marketo. Root Cause The inferred State/City/Country is populated via the person tokens and that information is normally captured when a lead fills out a Marketo form. If instead, the form used is a LinkedIn form, then that information is not passed over to the Marketo lead fields. Environment Marketing Activities LinkedIn Lead Gen
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Issue After the switch to a secured domain (from http -> https), landing pages display both a broken format and mixed content warnings. Solution Make sure all links referenced in your Landing Page Templates and Landing Pages are secured, in other words served with the https:// appended in the front and not http:// Step 1: Open up Landing page with non secure warning sign Step 2: On Google Chrome right click on the page that is displaying the warning and select "Inspect." On Mozilla Firefox it's called "Inspect Element." Look for any "Mixed Content" warnings. Step 3: Find and address the links that are referenced in the error messages **If the link that is unsecure is a custom CSS file, these files will need to be moved and hosted in a secure location so that the links are loaded over https.   Who This Solution Applies To Customers with Secure Domains for Landing Pages Service
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Issue Is it possible to add snippet to a template (email or landing page)?   Solution Snippets can't be added to directly to the templates. You would need to add them into the specific landing pages or emails created from the templates.
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Issue Description You have disabled starter templates in the Admin section but the templates are still available while creating a new email asset. Issue Resolution We suggest that you navigate to Admin Panel > Email > Edit Email Editor Setting > check the box for "Enable Marketo Starter Template" and then save the settings. Again navigate to the same location and then uncheck the box. Upon saving the setting now, the problem should be solved.
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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 Form in Design Studio will not convert the time format upon language selection. English form with date format dd/mm/yyyy This is a article attached image Below is a form using settings with form language selecting German. The date format remains the same "dd/mm/yyyy" when the expected value should be "tt/mm/jjjj" as per language date format This is a article attached image Environment Marketo forms and common web browsers such as Chrome, Opera, Firefox. Root Cause This behaviour is related to the browser language settings. It automatically translates the date in the format of the selected language in the browser. Example of the same form with different browser language selected, the date format is changed by the browser  This is a article attached image This is a article attached image
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  Issue User Receives Communication Failure Error / bandaid when creating a new Email from a custom Template due to unapproved snippet. Resolution Email templates can contain code to reference a snippet by ID: <div class="mktoSnippet" id="FooterText" mktoName="Footer Text" mktoDefaultSnippetId="3"></div> If the snippet is not approved then a new email asset cannot be created, and instead a bandaid error occurs.   The snippet should be approved first before the template is used.    If the ID of the snippet in the HTML is 3 and the pod sj27, the URL to the asset would be Login | Marketo  
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Issue You have two SFDC picklist fields mapped to one Marketo field but it isn't showing all picklist values for both SFDC fields. Solution When two SFDC picklist fields are mapped to one field in Marketo, the only values that will show in Marketo will be the values that exist in both picklists.  Review the picklist values in Salesforce and add any missing values to the picklists so that they match exactly. This could happen in situations where the field in Marketo is mapped to a SFDC picklist field on leads as well as a SFDC field on contact/account.
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Issue The format of the landing page is distorted in comparison to the version displayed in the landing page preview.  Environment SSL Certificates Landing Page Domain Landing Page format is different from preview Landing Page contain unsecure content Landing page template has http instead of https   Solution Ensure all the links used in HTML code used in the landing page template is referencing "HTTPS" and not "HTTP". You can follow the steps outlined in the document below on how to edit landing page template.  Link: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/marketo/using/product-docs/demand-generation/landing-pages/landing-page-templates/edit-a-marketo-landing-page-template.html **NOTE: If the landing pages is approved, a draft version of the landing page is created for any landing pages which is using the landing page template. You can mass approve those landing pages via following steps outlined in the document below. Link: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/marketo/using/product-docs/demand-generation/landing-pages/landing-page-actions/approve-multiple-landing-pages-at-once.html?lang=en Root Cause Once you secure your Marketo landing pages to be served over "HTTPS", you should have not links referencing "HTTP" (unsecured) assets or pages. 
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Issue You have a CNAME for your Branded Tracking Links in email but want to restore the settings to the system default (example: mkto-ab01234.com).     Solution Once you have set up a Branded Tracking Link domain, it is not possible to restore it to the Marketo default.  You can change it to a different CNAME domain, but it is not possible to revert to the original.
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Issue You send a sample email to test the tokens in a Calendar (.ics) file, and the tokens are not populating. Create a Calendar Event (.ics) File     Solution Tokens in an .ics file do not populate for sample emails.  Send the email to a test lead via 'Send Email' Run Action in the Database instead or via a smart campaign.
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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 When you click on ‘Forward to Friend’ link on an email template, it redirects you to the below 404 error page.   This is a article attached image     Solution The ‘Forward to Friend’ link will work only in a sent email and not on an email template. To test this functionality, you need to create an email using the template which contains "Forward to Friend’ link and then send the email to your test lead using a run action.  It will not work properly with a send sample. Open the email and click on the "Forward to Friend" link. Once clicked the email will open on a webpage and then the below "Forward to Friend" box will be visible.   This is a article attached image   To know more about "Forward to Friend", refer the below document.   http://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/%27Forward+to+a+Friend+Link%27+in+Emails    
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Issue The subject line for an email sent out to leads did not match what was set for an approved email.   Solution The email may have Dynamic Subject Lines enabled. Dynamic Subject Lines allow you to set dynamic content for the subject line based on the Segmentation of your leads. Visit our Documentation for further information about segments and dynamic content. Segments: Create a segmentation Dynamic Content: Using Dynamic Content in an email The issue can be resolved by converting the subject line to a Static Subject Line. A Static Subject Line is a single line of content that will send out to any recipient of your email, regardless of their segmentation. You can do so by doing the following:   Click on the Subject Line to bring up the Subject Line edit buttons. Click the Make Static button
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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 Clicking on a link in a Marketo e-mail that re-directs to a non-Marketo webpage destination does not open the page.     Solution Complete the troubleshooting step below. If they do not resolve the issue, include the results in a Marketo Support Ticket. Check the CNAME is correctly setup for the email tracking link  Check that the Default Branding Name matches the CNAME in Step 1 (check for typos).  If you are unsure you can visit CNAME lookup on mxtoolbox and enter the default branding name to check. Under the Domain field enter your default branding name. Do you have SSL for tracking links enabled? If Yes, tracking links in emails should start with HTTPS:// If No, tracking links in emails should start with HTTP://   If you do not have SSL enabled, but when you click the link it resolves to HTTPS://,try a different network and see if it still occurs. Your network may be configured to automatically use HTTPS automatically even if the link is specified as HTTP. (Check with your network admin)   If you are re-directed to the non-Marketo landing page but the page does not load: Check with the website admin if there are any redirect rules setup on the website. Try cutting out parts of the additional URL Parameter to see if that fixes the issue to identify which part of the URL parameter is causing it. Sometimes lead tokens or the mkt_tok may affect a redirect rule, since mkt_tok generates random characters and sometimes the token contains percentage '%' characters. It very common for websites to interpret a % followed by a character as an encoding. Seen in this website here   If you are unable to resolve the issue in the steps above, provide the test results and information in a Marketo Support Case.
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Issue When you add variables to your email template assets, the value assigned to that variable is not showing in the text-only version of the email even though it shows in the HTML version. Solution Email 2.0 variables do not pass the defined values for variables through to the text-only email. Since Marketo token values are passed through to the text-only email, customers may expect variable values to also be passed through to text-only emails. However, this is not currently the case.
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Question: How do I add a link to my lead/contact's Salesforce detail page when sending an alert from Marketo?   Answer: If the lead or contact is in both Marketo and Salesforce at the time when the alert email is sent, then the link to the Salesforce detail page will be automatically appended to the alert email sent by Marketo.   Note You will need to use the "Send Alert Info" token within your Alert email while designing your email in the Design Studio of Marketo. This is a article attached image Below is what the generated alert looks like once it is sent from Marketo (note the link to the Salesforce detail page is automatically inserted):   This is a article attached image   Note if the lead or contact is not in Salesforce then there is no link to the Salesforce detail page:   This is a article attached image
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Issue Description When selecting an image to display on a landing page, the image shows as a featureless grey box. There are also spaces in the image's file name. Issue Resolution Ensure that there are no spaces in the image's file name in Marketo. If there are, remove the spaces from the file name and re-upload. 
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