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Sometimes you may see a link in your email that isn't decorated when you mouse over it.  That same link isn't tracked when you click it. Check that there is a link The most common solution is to add a link to the email.  Many email clients will automatically add links to when the text looks like a URL.  For example, here's a link as it was typed in an email: But Outlook renders that text as a link: To fix this, edit the email and add a link to the URL by highlighting the text and clicking the link icon in the HTML editor: Check the <a> tag If you edited the HTML, check to make sure it's correct.  Check if the: href is enclosed with quotes <a> is opened and closed correctly Check for class="mktNoTrack" If you edited the link with class="mktNoTrack", the link will not be decorated by Marketo.  You'll have to remove that class from the email template or email body, depending on where it is. Validate your email HTML As an additional check, you might want to run the HTML through a validator; HTML errors can cause links to break among other problems. Download the HTML for your email with the Download HTML button in the HTML Tools menu. Then run the HTML through HTML Tidy.  You should address the issues it discovers as they may be responsible for the bad link.
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Issue Can Marketo provide SSL pages using Reverse-Proxy, Wild-Card, or Self-Signed Certificates?     Solution Marketo does not support any SSL setup outside of our standard practices. New SSL process outlined here: Setting Up Secured Domains for Landing Pages
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Warning: This isn't for the faint of heart. If you really know your Javascript and are comfortable with your landing pages, then you might consider adding custom validation on top of Marketo's built-in validation: Adding custom validation to a Marketo form before submitting it The function Mkto.validateField processes the form fields and checks their values.  By changing that function, you can replace or remove Marketo's built-in form validation. Note: Please ensure that you have access to an experienced JavaScript developer. Marketo Technical Support is not set up to assist with troubleshooting JavaScript. Disabling Validation To disable Javascript validation outright, add this javascript to your landing page as a Custom HTML block or on your landing page template: <script type="text/javascript">   Mkto.validateField =  function(fld) { return true; } </script> Custom Validation If you want to do your own validation, open http://appl.marketo.com/js/mktFormSupport.jsand find the Mkto.validateField function. It does lots of validation including email addresses, required fields, and phone numbers.  If you want to do your own validating instead of Marketo's, replace the Mkto.validate function by using a dedicated Custom HTML block or by editing your landing page template: <script type="text/javascript"> Mkto.validateField =  function(fld) {     // code goes here.  return true if it's valid, false otherwise   return true; } </script> Instead, you really should keep the Marketo validation and instead add your own custom validation on top of that: Adding custom validation to a Marketo form before submitting it
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Issue Description Email Insights does not display any data or metrics for specific program when the emails in the program are operational.   Issue Resolution Operational emails are hidden by default, so no data or metrics will be shown in Email Insights unless 'Operational Emails' are included   "Does Email Insights support Operational emails? Yes. By default, Operational emails are hidden from view and querying. However, you may change this setting under the Personal Settings panel." docs.marketo.com/display/public/DOCS/Email+Insights+FAQ   Who This Solution Applies To Customers using Email Insights Is this article helpful ? YesNo
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Issue: I added a link to an external page in one of my emails, when I receive the email and click on the link, it appears to be broken, but I am sure the URL is correct. Solution: Marketo adds code to links in emails as we send them out to track clicks. If the destination page is one that does not support URL parameters, the page may not load. This is very rare but in the case that it happens in your testing, you can try disabling tracking for that specific link. See Disable Tracking for an Email Link for detailed instructions.
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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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I'm trying to find out who had a lead score change from a specific smart campaign - would I use data value changed with a reason or some other filter? The Data Value Changed filter with the Reason constraint is appropriate for finding leads that had their Lead Score changed by a campaign. This screen shot shows an example of how you might set this up. The list below show a few of the values you may see in the Reason field. If you know the exact phrase you are looking for, use the "is" operator. For example, "Changed by Smart Campaign Contact Us." If you don't know the exact value, try using the operator "starts with."  Synched from salesforce.com Changed by Smart Campaign System flow action System action reset Form fill-out SOAP API Manual lead edit Munchkin API Import/merge into list The Reason filter constraint is available in these filters: Data Value Changed Lead Partition Changed Progression Status was Changed Revenue Stage was Changed Not Data Value Changed Not Lead Partition Changed Not Progression Status was Changed Not Revenue Stage was Changed
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Use sample if you want to place a label above a group of form fields. Here's an example of the result: Note: Please ensure that you have access to an experienced JavaScript developer. Marketo Technical Support is not set up to assist with troubleshooting JavaScript. In that example, if you wanted to add the label above the "First Name" and "Company Name" fields, you need to first get the IDs of those fields. After you have the ID(s), change the highlighted code below to those IDs. You can then change the style or text in the label by editing the HTML in the "before()" function. <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/public/jquery-latest.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">   $jQ = jQuery.noConflict();   $jQ(document).ready(function(){     $jQ("#FirstName").parent().parent().before("<div style='padding-bottom:20px;font-weight:bold;'>Personal Info</div>");     $jQ("#Company").parent().parent().before("<div style='padding-bottom:20px;font-weight:bold;'>Company Info</div>");   }); </script> Download Attachments: Label above form fields-JS.txt
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Issue Unsubscribes are no longer or only sometimes attributing to email assets after switching to a custom unsubscribe page, form, one click unsubscribe or not using the Marketo system default Unsubscribe field.   Solution There are a series of steps that must take place for Marketo to attribute unsubscribes to the email asset for reporting purposes.   The record must click a link in the email asset which contains the following querystring parameter on the link. This link may be to a Marketo landing page or a non Marketo landing page, either will work fine. Required parameter: ?mkt_unsubscribe=1&mkt_tok=##MKT_TOK## The record must submit a Marketo form. The system default Unsubscribed field must change from false to true via this form submission. (this can be changed back to false after the submission if you do not use this field for unsubscribes) If these actions do not occur as above, we may not attribute the unsubscribe to the email asset. Why are some being tracked? Those that are being tracked are almost always because of the record unsubscribing via the email host provided link (ex. GMail hosted emails) Are records unsubscribed even if it does not attribute to the email? Yes, as long as the field Unsubscribed is true on the record, we will not send the record a non-Operational email. If you would like a one click unsubscribe solution for your records, this is still possible through the use of the Forms 2.0 API and submitting the form in the background.    
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You or your users may be having problems with images not showing up in the body of an email. If images are that are embedded in the body of the email are not showing up in recent versions of Microsoft Outlook, then follow these steps: Outlook 2007 1.       Open Outlook. 2.       Click Tools -> Trust Center (Outlook 2007). 3.       Uncheck the box, ‘Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items’. 4.       Click OK; restart Outlook and check that images appear. Outlook 2010 1.       Open Outlook. 2.       Click File -> Options -> Trust Center (Outlook 2010). 3.       Click ‘Trust Center Settings’. 4.       Uncheck the box, ‘Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items’. 5.       Click OK; restart Outlook and check.
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If your company moves to a new location, follow these steps to change the mailing address in your email templates located in the footer. 1. Find the email template that you want to update your company mailing address. We're using the Rounded Corners email template for this example. 2. Click Edit Draft. The email template shows in the preview window. 3. Click HTML Source. 4. Scroll to where your current mailing address is located (usually at the bottom) and update the information. 5 Click Preview to view your changes. Validate your changes. 6. Click Save and Close. 7. Approve your draft. 8. Click Emails from the tree on the left side of your screen. 9. Any emails that use the updated template will need to be re-approved. 10. You can approve the affected emails in this view (shown in the screen shot above) by highlighting the email(s) and choosing Email Actions > Approve Draft.
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Issue: You would like have leads rate content (for example) and need the buttons to display horizontally. Please ensure that you have access to an experienced Web developer. Marketo Technical Support is not set up to assist with troubleshooting code. Solution: The buttons are laid out in a table format so adjusting margins and padding doesn't seem to do the trick, use CSS instead. Add the following to a custom HTML block: <style> tr {float:left;} </style> Disclaimer: This solution does not work for IE7 as it does not support the Float property correctly, this solution was tested in FF 5 and IE8/9 . If your curious on browser usage check here.
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Do you need a report that shows you a programs success over time? We have you covered. Here is how: 1. Open Revenue Explorer. 2. Click New Report. 3. Select the Program Membership Analysis area and click OK. 4. Find the Program Channel yellow dot, right click it and click Filter. 5. Find your program channel, select it, add it and click OK. 6. Double click the Program Channel yellow dot to add it as a column. 7. Double click the Program Name yellow dot. 8. Find and double click the Success Month yellow dot. 9. Finally double click the Success (Total) blue dot. Now that's what I call a fine job! Check out your report:
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1. Select your landing page and click on Edit Draft. The landing page designer opens in a new window. 2. Drag over the Form element. 3. Find and select a Form. 4. Find and select a Follow-up Page. Click Insert. If you cannot find your Follow-up Page, make sure that it is approved. Awesome! Now that you have a form on your landing page, you can begin capturing lead data.
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Enable people to fill in forms using their social network profile. Social form fill also captures social profile data about your leads. Not all customers have purchased this functionality. Contact your sales rep for details. 1. In Marketing Activities, select the form, and click Edit Form. 2. Under Form properties, click the Social Form Fill link to enable it. 3. Select the social networks leads can use to prefill the form. 4. Buttons for the selected networks appear at the top of your form. Enabling social form fill might affect the layout of the landing page that contains your form. What's Next: See Manage Social Profile Data for the fields that are available from each social network.
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When a customer triggers a blacklisting on Marketo's shared IP range that customer is moved to a set of IPs we call the quarantined IP range.  We do this to protect the health of our shared network and ensure the best deliverability possible for all of our customers on that network.   If you have received a Blocklist Notification from Marketo reporting that you have triggered a blocklisting your Marketo account is now in the quarantined IP range.   While you are in the quarantined range it is possible that you may experience a slight decrease in your deliverability rates. The reason for this is that you are now sending from a range made up of senders that have also caused other blocklist issues. All customers have received a notice of the listing and are in the process of repairing their database.   There are two ways to be removed from the quarantined IP range: Follow the steps outlined in our Blocklist Remediation article. Be sure to fill out the form referenced in the email alert to indicate that you have taken steps to mitigate the issue. Demonstrate clean sending behavior for 3 months. We remove senders from the quarantined IP range if they have not triggered any new listings in 3 months.   To ensure your best deliverability rates blocklist issues should be addressed right away to prevent further damage to your sending reputation. Furthermore, if no action is taken to improve list hygiene the issue will likely recur. Marketo's Privacy Team strongly recommend following the Blocklist Remediation steps.   Additional Resources: Blocklist Deep Dive​  
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You may want to allow the user to select multiple values for a single field when filling out a form. Here is how: 1. Find the form you want to add the multi-select field to, select it and click Edit Form. 2. Under Template Form Fields, find the field and drag it into the canvas. 3. Select the field you just dragged in. 4. Under Form Properties, change the Input Type to select and click into the canvas to apply changes. 5. Select the field again. 6. Add the list of options in the following format to Value List: Lead Management, Sales Insight, Revenue Explorer, Financial Management 7. Check Allow Multiple Sections. 8. Click in the canvas to apply changes. There you go! Now approve the page this form is on and leads can hold CTRL/Command and click to select multiple values before submitting.
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Uncover powerful, yet simple-to-use features of Design Studio. Join Don Mayberry, Marketo Support expert, as he reveals the lesser known treasures in Design Studio that will help you hone your craft. In this session, you will learn: Key features of the Email Editor and Landing Page Editor to craft the email and landing page to your needs. How to manipulate content on your landing page.   Watch the recorded webinar Useful resources:      CampaignMonitor.com  specifically;     Guide to CSS Support for Email Clients     Design Guidelines Top HTML Email Coding Mistakes from Mailchimp.com Tools for FireFox Colorzilla Firebug Download Attachments: Master-Design-Studio-1-2011.pdf
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Technically, you cannot move records backwards in a progression status.  The only so called “backward” status that you can change the record to is a progression status of “Not In Program”; however, doing this removes them from the membership of the program.  If you do this procedure, this will allow you to re-add them with a different status.   We mentioned technically this cannot be done but logically, there is another method that allows you to juggle the record’s progression status but in a more lateral movement with what appears to be in a “backward” state.  This is all dependent on how you have your channel steps configured.  To access your channel steps, please do the following:   Choose Admin Choose Tags Click the + next to Channel Locate the channel you wish to configure and highlight it Click the drop-down menu towards the top of Tag Actions, and select Edit   You should now see a pop-up window that allows you to configure the status steps for that channel like the following example:   This is a article attached image     If you configure statuses that have the same step number, this will allow you to move the record in a lateral movement which, in a sense, is somewhat like a backward progression but it really isn't.  With the example screen capture, I can do a change in progression status of “Invited” to “Attended Show” and vice-versa because the step is with an identical number. If I wanted to change in progression status of “Invited” to “Engaged” and back, it will not work because the step value is not identical. You can reference more information about this in the Create a Program Channel article.
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Issue: You create Marketo campaigns but they are not showing up in Sales Insight in Salesforce. The steps below illustrates all the steps that are required to make these campaigns show in Sales Insight. Resolution: 1. Setup up a trigger campaign in Marketo using the "Campaign is Requested" trigger using a source of "Sales Insight" 2. Activate the campaign you created in Step 1 above from the "Schedule" tab of your campaign. This is very important. If the campaign not activated, it will never show up in Sales Insight.
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