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Issue Description: The Activity Log shows "Fill out a form" without a page visit. How users could fill out a form without visiting the page? Issue Resolution: Google Chrome introduced Incognito. Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer implemented Private Browsing. Pages that users visit in Private Browsing/Incognito will not leave traces, like cookies, on users' computers after they close all open windows. A normal visit to any page is not tracked during visits, regardless the navigation path. That includes other pages after the form is filled out. The new Do Not Track feature is a contributing factor for apparently incomplete Activity Logs. When users turn on the Do-not-track feature, the browser tells every website they visit (as well as their advertisers and other content providers) that they do not want their browsing behavior tracked. Honoring this setting is voluntary — individual websites are not required to respect it. Websites that do honor this setting should automatically stop tracking your behavior without any further action from users.
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Issue You would like to use the 'SFDC Oppty Campaign ID' as a constraint for the Smart List filters ' Has Opportunity' and 'Opportunity was Updated', however, it does not appear as an option. Solution By system design, there are some opportunity fields such as 'SFDC Oppty Campaign ID' that are restricted and cannot be made visible in Marketo as a constraint or filter. One workaround is to create a custom field in Salesforce on the Opportunity object that holds the same value as the 'SFDC Optty Campaign ID' field. As a result, this field will appear in Field Management and become visible as a smart list constraint or filter in Marketo. If you would like to implement this, reach out to your SFDC admin.      
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Issue This describes the difference in how filter logic applies to triggers and filters in a Smart Campaign Smart List. Solution Issue Resolution You can view the video on this here. Filter logic in a Smart List only applies to filters (the green criteria) and not triggers (the orange criteria.) If you have multiple triggers in a Smart Campaign, they will always operate on ANY/OR logic, which is to say, only one of the triggers needs to fire in order for the Smart Campaign to run. The filter logic you select, whether it is AND, ANY, or Advanced, will be used to further filter the leads after the trigger has fired.
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Issue How to use the Web Page, Referrer URL, or Query String constraints to specify web page when using one form on multiple pages. Solution Use the appropriate constraint to specify which page the form is on when using a "Fills Out Form" trigger or "Filled Out Form" filter in a Smart List. There are three options: Web Page Referrer URL Query String   Web Page This constraint is designed for Marketo Landing Pages. If you have one form on multiple pages, and were attempting to specify a Marketo Landing Page, then you would use Web Page.  If you use Web Page, your value is the Landing Page asset name, such as "Global Contact Form Page". Or if the page is local to a program, the name format would be [program name].[landing page name]   Referrer URL This constraint is designed for external, non-Marketo pages. If the form you have is embedded on an external page, the value you would enter would be the URL of the page.This constraint is very picky about the values entered. Say the form is on http://www.pages.domain.com/contact-us.html. Only the following 2 options would function: Referrer URL - is - http://www.pages.domain.com/contact-us.html Referrer URL - contains - www.pages.domain.com/contact-us   By using "is", the exact value must match. When using "contains" a smaller portion of the whole can be used. Even "contains" /contact-us would have worked successfully, but the less specific the value is the more other pages could qualify depending on the use case. Generally, "contains" is advised with a unique portion of the URL because there can often be querystrings on URLs that would then not satisfy the "is" constraint.   Querystrings If the form is on a page, and the page has a querystring, such as: http://www.pages.domain.com/contact-us.html?product=new-stuff, then the form submission activity on the Marketo record would have a new field in the Detail called Query Parameters. (Querystring, Query String, Query Parameters are all the same thing.) If you set up direct links to the Page with unique querystrings, then you would be able to use the Querystring constraint and use values from the querystring in the trigger/filter form fillout campaign.
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Issue A/B test in Email Program status is still showing “Running test…” and not all email variants were sent as expected.    Environment A/B Test Email Program  Sample Size Running Test  Solution To ensure the sample size qualified at least a minimum of the total variants of the A/B test.  For example, if you have a total of 6 records, a sample size of 34% will suffice for 2 records (1 for variant A and 1 for variant B).    Root Cause This can occur if the sample size selected is too small. For example, if you have a total of 6 records, a sample size of 1% will not suffice for 1 record.  
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Issue My Tokens are displaying the default value instead of the value assigned to them by a higher-level folder or program. Solution Confirm that the asset using the tokens is inside the tree where the token values are defined. If the token is not in fact within the same folder tree as its definition, it will display the default value instead of the intended value.
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Issue Issue Description My Tokens not appearing in an email as an option to insert.   Solution Issue Resolution It is highly likely that the email is not in the program or campaign folder containing the My Tokens. Examples:  The email could be located in Design Studio The email is within a program but the token is not defined in the program it is in, or the campaign folder it is in In all cases, the email must be within the program or campaign folder that contains the My Tokens.
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Issue You have created a Nurture Engagement Program and are running an Engagement Stream Report, and a stream is not showing on the report.     Solution One likely cause for the stream not showing on the report is that the stream is not sending out content. Once the content in the Engagement Stream is being sent (cast), then the email activity will begin to show on the Report. In order to cast content, the cadence must be set. If the Stream Cadence has been set, and the stream is still not showing on the Report, another likely reason is that there are no leads in the stream. The solution here is to add records to the stream.    
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Issue Issue Description Importing a program from one subscription to another is failing and is returning the following error sent via email:   Marketo encountered an error while importing [Program Name] The token "lead.First Name" is not available in the destination subscription. It is either a custom field that you have to create or need to be synced from your CRM system, if you use one. This is a article attached image   Solution Issue Resolution Check if there is any malformed lead.First Name token in email Check if there is any malformed lead.First Name token in email template used by the email(s) in the program Check if there is any malformed lead.First Name token within a program token Check if there is any malformed lead.First Name token within smart campaign flow step(s) This error has been known to occur when the email template had a lead token coded as follows, with a line break between 'First' and 'Name': {{lead. First Name}} Note: In this scenario, the error message received via email is actually referring to the token in the email template that contains a line break between 'First' and 'Name' but is stripped out on the message when HTML is rendered.  
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Issue The Engagement Program has no engagement score more than 72 hours after the Engagement Program cast.   Solution First, make sure that is has been more than 72 hours since the Engagement Program cast, since it takes some time for the engagement score to update. If you are using child programs in the Engagement Program stream, check the individual programs to see if leads have achieved a Success status in those programs. When programs are used as content in streams, the engagement score is based on program membership and success status, not email interaction (clicks, opens, unsubscribes). Also, if there are any campaigns in the child program that contain wait steps, the Engagement Score will not populate until the campaign is complete. https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Understanding+the+Engagement+Score    
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Issue An Engagement Program failed to send an email in the nurture stream. Solution Check the approval date of the email against the date of the last engagement cast. If the email was unapproved at the time, or was not activated as content, the email would not have been sent.      
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Issue Email Program Audience count is different than delivered/bounced email count. Solution The Audience number doesn't refresh or update once the Smart List is created, so the number of qualified people can change between then and sending the email. That is normal. If you want to double check the people, you can click the refresh button on the Audience pane of the email program just before sending, or create a separate Smart List with the same filters just before you send the email.  Also be aware that the Audience may include duplicate leads, or leads that have reached their communication limit. These leads will not show as blocked, but will not be sent the email
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Issue You want to edit a campaign flow after initiating the run, but there are already members running through the flow in the wait steps. Solution Generally speaking, it is best to not edit the flow of a campaign after activating/initiating. Example: Let's say that a particular campaign has 3 flow steps: Change program status Wait 2 days Send email And you would like to add a new step in between 1&2, so the new flow would be Change program status Change score Wait 2 days Send email If you add a new Flow step above a wait step, the wait step shifts down. However, currently there are leads waiting the designated 2 days (Flow step #2). (It's helpful to think about wait steps like buckets. Once a lead enters the flow step, the wait duration is calculated, and the lead waits there in that flow step bucket for that amount of time.)   If the campaign was initiated, and a lead entered Flow step #2 and began waiting 2 days, and then you add an additional step above, the Wait 2 days becomes Flow step #3. Now when the leads are done waiting 2 days in Flow Step #2 bucket, then they exit and progress to #3. Even though the actual wait step shifts from #2 to #3, the lead records are still in Step #2 bucket, and they do not shift from #2 to #3, meaning they are now waiting an additional 2 days.   Solution: The solution here is to create a new campaign with the desired flow steps for the same membership (same Smart List), and then run a "Remove from Flow" single action by clicking the following in the old campaign (the one you wanted to edit):   View Campaign Members > Select All > Person Actions > Special > Remove from Flow. In the Run Action dialog box, click on "is" and change to "this campaign". Click "Run Now". After removing these members, they will not progress further into the old campaign flow, and now the new campaign is ready to be activated/initiated.    
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Issue There is a noticeable delay between when campaign is run and affected person records are updated and activity records are written to.   Solution Check the Campaign Queue.  If the affected campaign is backlogged in the queue, the only resolution is to wait for higher priority jobs to clear.  To check the Campaign Queue go into the Marketing Activities tile and click on the Campaign Queue Tab.   Campaign queue is read only and cannot be reordered. Plan accordingly with very large campaigns to give time to process during off hours or slow times.  
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Issue Issue Description Smart Campaign within a default program has members but these are not displaying under the results for total program members or in Program Performance reports.     Solution Issue Resolution Default programs do not add members to the program automatically.  An "Add to Program" or "Change Program Status" flow step must be included in the Smart Campaigns that exist within the default program to make the leads members of the program.    
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Issue Sometimes there can be a circumstance where a text token should hold null value. Since the token must contain a value, you need to insert a value that will display as empty when the token is rendered.     Solution Adding a HTML comment to the on the Text {{my.token}} side would work.   <!-- -->  If you're just plopping the token into your HTML, this will be fine. If you're embedding it in Javascript then you can still check for that specific value, it just won't be "magic":   if ( "{{my.token}}" != "<!-- -->" ) {    // it's not empty  }       
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Issue An anonymous lead triggers a Smart Campaign that includes a Change Program Status flow step.  Instead of adding the anonymous lead to the program, you get an error, "Cannot add an anonymous lead to a program."     Solution Anonymous leads can not be added to programs, but they can trigger Smart Campaigns that include a Visits Web Page trigger.  If you want to capture these anonymous leads and add them to the program once they become known, add the following to your campaign. A "Lead is Created" trigger - this trigger will fire when the anonymous lead becomes known. A "Visited Web Page" filter with the specific page you are looking for. You may wish to add a Date of Activity constrain to the "Visited Web Page" filter if you do not want leads that visited the page too long ago to be added to the program.    
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Issue When adding 'Acquisition Program' attribute as part of 'change data value' flow step, ‘New Value’ will not get saved if it is added as a token. As an example, let's say there is a smart campaign within a program and the program has multiple tokens. One of the token is {{program.Name}} whose value is 'Sales Acquisition Campaign'. In the smart campaign, there is a 'change data value' flow step that updates the value of 'Acquisition Program' attribute to a new value. If this new value is added as '{{program.Name}}' in the flow step, and when navigating away from the campaign flow edit page and navigating back again to the same page, the 'Acquisition Program' attribute's new value will be blank. Environment Marketing Activities Change Data Value Acquisition Program Token Solution Use text instead of token to update 'Acquisition Program' value. In the above example, use 'Sales Acquisition Campaign' as the new value in the flow step instead of using token '{{program.Name}}'. Root Cause Marketo does not support use of tokens to update 'Acquisition Program' attribute.
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Issue Duplicate records were sent an email from an Email Program. Solution While Marketo prevents sending emails to duplicate records (i.e. same email address) via the same Smart Campaign, it is possible to send an email to duplicate record when there is A/B test configured for the Email Program. Specifically, one record can be sent an email from the test send while the duplicate record can be sent the email from the winner send. For example, if there are two records for "mary@mail.com" in the audience, Mary can be sent two emails as follows: One record can be sent the email by qualifying for receiving the test from the sample size of the A/B test The other record can be sent the email by qualifying for receiving the winner from the sample size of the A/B test   Note: sending the test and sending the winner utilizes individual campaigns which is why the systematic deduplication of emails within a smart campaign does not take effect for this scenario. To prevent this from occurring, exclude the duplicate records from the smart list of the email program.
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Issue Issue Description One (or several) of the emails in your Engagement Program stream with Recipient Time Zone enabled failed to send but there was no failure or error message. You edited the email(s) within 25 hours of the next scheduled cast.   Solution Issue Resolution Our Engagement Program documentations states that "We require you to schedule the first cast at least 25 hours in the future because there may be people who qualify for the cast in every time zone across the globe." (https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Schedule+Engagement+Programs+with+Recipient+Time+Zone) This also applies to making edits to emails. If you edit an email in an Engagement Program stream with Recipient Time Zone enabled within 25 hours of the next scheduled cast. The pre-processing is disrupted and the email will fail to send. To avoid the issue please either  1) disable Recipient Time Zone 2) refrain from making edits to the Engagement Program streams or assets 25 hours before the next scheduled cast. Who This Solution Applies To Customers using Engagement Program with Recipient Time Zone enabled
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