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Marketo Support's Mission is: To provide fast and friendly world-class support through creative, flexible solutions to empower Marketo Automation Software success.   Areas of Responsibility: Technical Support Engineers (TSEs) are your initial point of contact for any technical questions or concerns. TSEs are responsible for troubleshooting issues within your Marketo instance and common include:   My Marketo Marketing Activities Design Studio Lead Database Analytics Revenue Explorer (RCA/RCE) Calendar Deliverability Tools Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Web Personalization (RTP) Admin Community   Our TSEs are not web developers and as a result they are unable to troubleshoot most types of custom coding (ie. HTML, JavaScript, XML, etc.). Our support team is able to help with the following types of non-custom code:    Simple Munchkin Code Asynchronous Munchkin Code Asynchronous jQuery Munchkin Code SOAP API REST API   Our TSEs are here to assist you and our support commitment to our customers is to always work towards providing an above and beyond support experience.   Note: Our team is not against looking at custom code and, based on the subject matter expertise, our TSEs might be able to offer suggestions and recommendations, but we do want to make it clear that they are not responsible for fixing or updating any custom code that has been implemented.   Response Time   Our TSEs are bound to responding to your cases and issues within the Service Level Agreements from your account's level of support services.  We track response milestones to ensure that your cases are being handled in a timely manner as dictated by our agreed to Service Level Targets.
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Issue You receive the below sync error notification which states "CANNOT_INSERT_UPDATE_ACTIVATE_ENTITY: [process/workflow name]: System.LimitException: Apex CPU time limit exceeded"   Solution The error means that you have one or more triggers running when the leads are inserted that consume too much CPU time. You are hitting what are called SFDC Governor limits. This is really something you need to review with your SFDC admins and developers. Consider moving some workflows from Triggers (synchronous) to batches (asynchronous).    
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Included in this article   Overview Sync Filters for Existing SFDC Integrations Sync Filters for New SFDC Integrations Overview It is often necessary to prevent specific leads from syncing between Marketo and SFDC. There are a few different ways this can be done, such as sharing rules on the SFDC side, but the most effective way is through a Marketo Custom Sync Filter.   A Custom Sync Filter uses a custom field to mark each lead record to indicate whether that lead is allowed to sync between Marketo and SFDC. Here’s how to get it set up!     Sync Filters for Existing SFDC Integrations   If you already have an SFDC integration in place but want to stop some already-synced leads from continuing to sync, this section will show you how to make that change.   1. Create a new custom field in Salesforce. The Marketo bi-directional sync will automatically identify the new custom field and map it between Marketo and Salesforce. The best field type to use is a Checkbox field within Salesforce and the field will need to be created on the Salesforce Object that needs to be filtered (i.e. Lead, Contact, or both). Once the field has been created in Marketo by the bi-directional sync, it will be listed under Admin > Field Management.   Note: A Custom Sync Filter field can also be created on the Account object to dictate whether an account is allowed to sync. This sync filter will be applied independently from the Lead/Contact sync filter.   2. Update the records in Salesforce with the corresponding value you need to indicate whether the record should sync or not. Sync filters can be set up in two ways—a True/Checked value can indicate that a record is allowed to sync, or a True/Checked value could indicate that a record is not allowed to sync. This choice is up to you.   3. The Custom Sync Filter can now be implemented. Contact Marketo Support and request a Custom Sync Filter be activated. Be sure you include the custom field name, which configuration you need (checked=sync vs checked=don’t sync), and all records have been populated with the correct values. Once it has been applied, you’re all done!     Sync Filters for New SFDC Integrations   If you are setting up a new SFDC integration with Marketo, you can set up the sync filter as part of the integration process. This will let you designate which leads and contacts are ever allowed to sync, but this must be done in the middle of the initial SFDC sync process.   1. Create a new custom field in SFDC. The best field type to use is a Checkbox field, and you’ll need to set it up with the same name on both the Lead and Contact objects. Note: A Custom Sync Filter field can also be created on the Account before the initial sync, and it will be applied in the same way.   2. Update the records in Salesforce with the corresponding value you need to indicate whether the record should sync or not. Sync filters can be set up in two ways—a True/Checked value can indicate that a record is allowed to sync, or a True/Checked value could indicate that a record is not allowed to sync. This choice is up to you.   3. Begin your Salesforce Sync Setup but do not finish it. There are two sets of Salesforce Sync installations, one for Enterprise/Unlimited Edition and the other for Professional Edition. For both Enterprise/Unlimited and Professional Edition versions, three documents correspond to the three different steps: “Step 1 of 3”, “Step 2 of 3,” and “Step 3 of 3”. For both versions, complete all steps of “Step 1 of 3” and “Step 2 of 3”. When you get to “Step 3 of 3”, you will only do the first half of the steps and then stop. Complete the sections “Retrieve Sync User Security Token” and “Set Sync User Credentials,” and then stop there. Do not proceed to start the sync.   4. This is when the sync filter needs to be implemented. Contact Marketo Support and request a Custom Sync Filter be activated. Be sure to include the custom field name, which configuration you need (checked=sync vs checked=don’t sync), and note that all records have been populated with the correct values. Once it has been applied and the Marketo Support case is resolved, you’re done and can start your initial SDFC sync!
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Issue Your Salesforce sync cycle is taking longer than usual.  How long is too long?     Solution By default, Marketo starts each Salesforce sync cycle five minutes after the previous cycle completes.  Each sync cycle may take a couple of minutes or a couple of hours, depending on how much data needs to be written across.  If you notice your sync cycles seem to be taking longer than usual, here are some things to check. Have you done a large update recently?  This can create a backlog that can take time to work through. Have you added new fields to any of your synced Salesforce objects?  The more fields on the object, the more data needs to be written across, extending the sync cycle. If you would like to streamline your Salesforce sync, do an audit in Salesforce of fields visible to the Marketo Sync User.  If there are any fields that are not used in Marketo, remove visibility to them so Marketo does not waste time syncing them.  
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This is working as expected. The Parent Company Name field gets its value set from a different process and not via the SFDC Synch. SFDC and Marketo Engage both have a Parent Account ID field in the Account Object (Company Object in Marketo). If there is a parent account ID in that field, then the value of that field is automatically populated via a reference to the other Account Record. Since Company in Marketo is mapped to Name (SFDC Account) whenever that value is updated it will be reflected in Marketo. Example: Account ID 1 has a Parent Account ID of 2. They both have records in the same Account table. If the Name is changed of the Parent Account it is automatically reflected in any child accounts as the Parent Account Name is just a reference.
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Issue If a record which is in a Marketo Campaign Wait Step and is merged into another record, does the winner of the merge continue through the flow?    Solution Winner of the merge will continue through the Campaign flow and complete the remaining steps. To prevent this behavior, remove the record from Campaign using the 'Remove From Flow' step. Environment Records merged in Marketo  Records merged in SFDC
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Issue Does applying a permission set to the Marketo Sync User in Salesforce suffice for limiting the number of fields to sync from Salesforce to Marketo? or will the profile need to be updated directly? Solution In order to limit the visibility of fields for the Marketo Sync User in Salesforce, the profile will need to be directly edited (example: Add an Existing Salesforce Field to the Marketo Sync - Marketo Docs - Product Documentation) Root Cause Since the profile has access to a field, the Marketo Sync User will still have access to the field even though a permission set applied to the profile does not have access to the same field. Environment Salesforce Sync Marketo Sync User Permission Set SFDC
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  Welcome to Marketo Support This guide provides individual links that covers the following topics: Marketo Support Policies Service Level Agreement How to Contact Marketo Support How to Submit a Case Tips on Effective Case Submission Managing Authorized Support Contacts (Support Admins) Managing Your Cases How to Escalate    
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  Marketo Champions are customers who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the Marketo Community, are experts in Marketo products, are avid contributors in the social world, and are loyal advocates of the Marketo brand. Benefits and perks our Champions receive include:   Access: Meetings with our product and marketing teams to give exclusive feedback Previews: Given early previews to products, features, and releases when available Publicity: Exclusive speaking opportunities at our annual Marketo Summit and other events Networking: Special networking events with Marketo executives and fellow Champions and semi-annual conference calls Ownership: Ownership of content and exclusive activities at our annual Marketo Summit that showcase your expertise and thought leadership Credibility: Special Champion badge on Marketo Community profiles, and profiled on Marketo's corporate website Sweet Swag: Champion-exclusive swag To find out more information and apply, click here. To view a complete list of current Champions, click here. Join the Marketo Elite Today!  
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Issue How to export a list of all the field mappings between Marketo and SFDC.     Solution Issue Resolution You can do export field mappings by following these steps: Go to Admin > Field Management. Click over a tab to Field Mapping. Click the export button, next to the search bar at the bottom.  
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Issue You are experiencing slow processing of campaigns, smart lists, and reports.     Solution There are three key components that can slow down an instance: Number of trigger campaigns: Trigger campaigns are always on, always listening.  If there are 50 campaigns triggering at the same time, all the 50 triggers will be in queue, slowing down your processing and routing inside Marketo. Solution: Reduce the number of Triggers. Convert some of the triggers to batches: Batches also run all the flow steps for every lead at once, instead of serially, which reduces total processing time.   Complexity of smart lists: The more complex a smart list, the harder it is for the system to figure it out, which increases backend processing and even creates campaign failures from timeouts. Solution: Reduce the number of nested smart lists called in a smart list. Whenever you ask Marketo to call another Smart List, it has to wait until all of the other smart lists finish, before putting together the final counts. Instead of Marketo looking for the list and running it, just put the filters in the trigger itself.   Volume of Leads: With regular cleaning and good systems design, it is fairly easy to keep your system running fast. Reduce the number of leads that can flow through with filters. Clean up the inactive leads at regular intervals.    
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Issue Issue Description Marketo records have opportunity role while they don't have any opportunity   Solution Issue Resolution This can happen because they are separate SFDC objects so it is possible that the opportunity is not visible to the sync user but the OpportunityContactRole is.  To resolve this, log into SFDC as the Marketo sync user and ensure that the opportunity is visible to the sync user.  
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Issue Can you sync Marketo multiple programs to a single Salesforce campaign? Solution Marketo only allows a 1:1 Relationship with Program/Campaign synchronization. If you try to sync a program to a campaign already used by another program you will recieve a error or prompt advising you cannot do it.    
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Issue Error "API is not enabled for this Organization or Partner" occurs during Marketo - Salesforce integration.     Solution This is a Salesforce generated error and indicates that API access is not available in your SFDC instance.  For more information, see this Salesforce documentation: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/sforce_api_calls_concepts_core_data_objects.htm . To resolve this, contact Salesforce to enable API access.
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Issue Marketo program Members are taking a long time to get updated in SFDC Campaigns.   Solution The Marketo Program to Campaign sync is not real time and will take time to update. The feature is dependent on the Marketo to SFDC background bi-directional sync. Marketo will generally sync SFDC and Marketo objects in the following order: Lead Account Contact User Task Opportunity Opportunity Contact Role Campaign Campaign Member Campaign Member Status As per the order, Campaign related objects are towards the bottom of the list. This means that all objects above it are synced first, and if there are any backlogs on those objects, the Campaign objects can queue up and cause delays.      
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  This is a article attached image Upon signing a contract with Marketo you are provisioned a Marketo instance and a Support Service. There are four different types of Support Services which are available to meet different customer support needs: Online (Legacy) Business or PREMIER SUPPORT BUSINESS (Legacy) Premier or PREMIER SUPPORT ENTERPRISE (Legacy) Elite or PREMIER SUPPORT ELITE Each Support Service has a different Service Level Target (SLT). An SLT is the amount of time Marketo Support targets to make first contact with you after a support case has been submitted. SLTs differ for each Support Service and priority level. Priority levels range from Priority P1 to Priority P4. Here are the SLTs and priority levels for each Support Service:   Priority Online (Legacy) Business PREMIER SUPPORT BUSINESS (Legacy) Premier PREMIER SUPPORT ENTERPRISE (Legacy) Elite PREMIER SUPPORT ELITE P1 1 hour 1 hour 1 hour 30 minutes 30 minutes 30 minutes 15 minutes P2 4 hours 3 hours 2 hours 2 hours 1 hour 2 hours 30 minutes P3 6 hours 5 hours 4 hours 4 hours 2 hours 2 hours 1 hour P4 3 days 1 day 1 day 1 day 1 day 1 day 1 day   Here are the descriptions for each priority level: Priority Description P1 Mission Critical: Core business function down or potential loss of mission critical data P2 Urgent: Major feature or workflow is not functioning. Mission critical workflow and majority of user community is not blocked P3 Important: Normal usability or task completion is impacted but functional, or workaround is available P4 Minor: Minor issue requiring a correction. Normal workflow is not impacted   Find more information About Support here!  
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Summary Marketo-only records must be manually synced, become a member of a default-program, encounter a Salesforce flow step in order to sync with Salesforce. Issue Records are in the Marketo database but are not syncing over to Salesforce automatically like I thought they would. Solution The sync between Marketo and Salesforce is bi-directional. However, in order for a record to be synced, one of the following conditions must be met: The record becomes a member of a program which is synced to a Salesforce campaign. This occurs when the background sync is used to keep members of a Salesforce campaign in sync with a Marketo Program status. This can easily be verified by navigating to the program and looking at the summary view. More information on this feature can be found here: https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Sync+an+SFDC+Campaign+with+a+Program https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/SFDC+Sync%3A+Campaign+Sync The record encounters an SFDC flow step. Any time a record encounters a Salesforce related flow step in a smart campaign, this will cause the record to sync with Salesforce. Some of these flow steps have other implied actions, which you can read about here: https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Implied+Salesforce+Actions The record is manually synced to Salesforce through a single-flow action. This is an intentional user action. It can only occur when you find the record in your database or in the people tab of a smart list and select the option from the 'Person Actions' menu. More on how to do this can be found in this document: https://docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Run+a+Single+Flow+Step+from+a+Smart+List Root Cause Records had not encountered SFDC flow steps, become members of a program synced with a Salesforce campaign and hat not been manually synced to Salesforce. Environment Marketo with the built-in integration with Salesforce
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Here's how you can use tokens and URL parameters to automatically assign leads to Salesforce campaigns after filling out a form.  These tokens work in all of the Salesforce campaign flow steps:   Add to Salesforce Campaign Change Status in Salesforce Campaign Remove from Salesforce campaign   Get the Salesforce campaign ID and status   You need two things to begin this process -- the name or ID of the Salesforce campaign you want to sync to and a valid status in that campaign.  You can get the ID for the campaign by opening that campaign in Salesforce and copying the last 15 characters from the URL.  Here's an example campaign URL; the ID is highlighted:   https://naX.salesforce.com/701F00230001Z9z   To get the valid statuses, click on "Advanced Setup" on the campaign's page     The status should be listed there:     Create new fields   First, you need to create two new fields -- "SFDC Campaign ID" and "SFDC Campaign Status" -- both of type "string".  You can create these on your lead and contact records in Salesforce, or contact Marketo support to add those custom fields in your Marketo account.   Create or edit the form   After you create those fields, the next step is to incorporate them into your forms.  Create a new form or edit an existing form, then drag those two fields into your form.  Make them both hidden fields and set them to populate from a URL.  If you're unfamiliar with them, this article on hidden fields has details on how they work. Making a Field Hidden on a Form When setting the values for those fields, use a real Salesforce campaign ID and status as the default value.  Here's how you might edit the settings for those fields:   SFDC Campaign ID: Default Value: [a real Salesforce campaign ID or name] Populate from: URL Parameter Parameter name: campaignID   SFDC Campaign Status: Default Value: [a real Salesforce campaign status for the campaign you chose] Populate from: URL Parameter Parameter name: status   And here's what your form might look like when done:   Now you have a form that automatically add leads to the default Salesforce campaign you selected and that you can override with URL parameters.   Create a Smart Campaign   Next, you need to create a campaign that will add these leads to the selected (or default) Salesforce campaign.  We'll trigger this campaign to launch whenever someone fills out your form: In the flow, first you need to sync the lead to Salesforce so that you can add it to a campaign.   Then you can add it to the Salesforce campaign using the values in the SFDC Campaign ID and SFDC Campaign Status fields.  To do this, use the tokens for those fields in your flow step:  {{Lead.SFDC Campaign ID}} for the campaign name and {{Lead.SFDC Campaign Status}} for the status.  If you type "{{" in the fields, the auto-suggest will help you enter that text correctly:     Your finished flow should look like this:     Finally, in the schedule tab set this campaign to run every time and activate it.     Launch your landing page   If you modified a form already in use, you can now go to that landing page, fill out the form, and watch as your lead gets synced to the Salesforce campaign you chose.  If this is a new form, create and approve a new landing page which uses that form.  After filling out the form, you should see the lead added to the default Salesforce campaign specified in your form:     Use URL parameters to override the default campaign and status.  For our forms, the campaign is set by the "campaignID" URL parameter and the status by the "status" URL parameter.  For example, this URL:   http://offers.marketo.com/offers.html?campaignID=701A00000009K3l&status=Responded will assign the lead to the Salesforce campaign "701A00000009K3l" (the Salesforce internal ID) with the status "Responded."  If either value has spaces or special characters, make sure that you URL encode them before adding them to your URL.   Using tokens in other Salesforce campaign flow steps   These tokens work in all of the Salesforce campaign flow steps -- Add, Remove, and Change Status in SFDC campaign.  Follow the same directions as above but substitute the appropriate flow step in place of the Add to SFDC Campaign step.   Diagnosing errors   If your leads are not syncing to your Salesforce campaigns, first go to the Activity Log for that lead and double click the line that has the failed flow step. The information that appears will help you figure out what the problem might be. The most common errors you'll encounter are: Spelling errors in your tokens -- use the autosuggest to help Using an SFDC campaign ID or name that doesn't exist -- check the spelling of the campaign or ID The lead doesn't exist in salesforce -- sync the lead to Salesforce before adding him/her to your campaign Using a status that doesn't exist for that campaign -- change the status to one that does exist for the campaign, or add a new status to the campaign in Salesforce
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Issue: You have Opportunities in Salesforce but they are not showing in Marketo.    Solution: 1) Check Opportunity permissions in Salesforce - Your first line of troubleshooting this issue is to ensure that the Salesforce profile being used by your Marketo sync user has the Create/ReadEdit/Delete access on the Opportunities object in Salesforce.     2) Check the "Contact Roles" Related List - Ensure that the "Contact Roles" Related List in Salesforce under the Opportunity's detail page is populated     3) Ensure that the Marketo sync user has visibility in Salesforce to see the Opportunity - Log in to Salesforce with the Marketo sync user and ensure that the missing Opportunity in Marketo is visible to this Marketo sync user. If the Marketo sync user can't see the Opportunity then the Opportunity will not sync to Marketo.   4) Check to see the time that the Opportunity was created in Salesforce - Often times you have all the correct Opportunities permissions in Salesforce but the Opportunities are still not showing in Marketo because the Opportunity was recently created and you have not allowed enough time for that Opportunity to sync to Marketo. In this scenario, the only thing you can to is wait. If your sync is busy processing other items, you usually need to wait for these pending items to sync before the newly created Opportunity will sync to Marketo.
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Issue Description: Salesforce refreshed your sandbox and it no longer syncs with Marketo Issue Resolution: As a safety precaution, once an instance of Salesforce is synced up with Marketo, we no longer allow the user to sync this particular instance of Marketo with any other instance of Salesforce. When Salesforce does a “refresh” of your sandbox, they are actually canceling your old sandbox account and creating a new account and pulling fresh data from your production. This means the refreshed sandbox is actually a different account and has a new OrgID. Marketo Support can assist by unlocking your Marketo sandbox to be synced up with a refreshed Salesforce sandbox. If you run into this scenario, please create a support ticket requesting that we enable the reset of the OrgID for your SFDC sandbox.
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