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Issue The Source Campaign field in Microsoft Dynamics is not getting updated when the field is updated in Marketo. The sync from Microsoft Dynamics to Marketo will be working fine. Environment Native integration with Microsoft Dynamics Campaign Sync not Enabled Solution To sync Campaign Source from Marketo to Dynamics, the option 'Campaign Sync' needs to be enabled as per this documentation: Enable Campaign Sync | Adobe Marketo Root Cause If the Campaign Sync is not enabled we will not be syncing over the value of the field to Microsoft Dynamics as it is part of the Campaign Sync.
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Issue Champion Challenger A/B Test dashboard does not display any data Solution Check that the email was sent from a trigger campaign or an engagement program as "Champion/Challenger emails only work with trigger campaigns and engagement program streams." https://docs.marketo.com/pages/releaseview.action?pageId=2359553 Check that the email sent from the engagement program was added to a stream directly and was not nested within a program that is the asset added in the stream. Reference: https://nation.marketo.com/t5/Knowledgebase/Champion-Challenger-Test-in-Engagement-Programs/ta-p/249176 Check that the email was approved when the email was sent Check that the email has been sent Check the time the Champion Challenger test was created and the time the email was sent   Root Cause The email has not been sent since the A/B test was created or the email was sent before the Champion Challenger test was created. Environment Champion Challenger Engagement Program A/B Test Email Dashboard
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When someone emails abuse@marketo.com to tell Marketo that they received unsolicited email from one of our customers, the result is called an abuse report.  Instead of just hitting the “Report Spam” button, someone actually took the time to write to our abuse@marketo.com address and explain to us that they never wanted email from the sender.  Because of this direct complaint we take these types of spam reports very seriously. Only about 10% of our customers ever receive any abuse reports at all so it is cause for investigation if you receive one. If you receive notification that someone filed an abuse report against your account review your list management practices. Below are some things to consider: When people sign up to receive emails from you, is it made clear to them that they are giving you permission to email them? Have you recently added any new leads or lead sources? Have you recently added older leads to your database that you have not reached out to in the past 6 months or more? Was there anything about the campaign that was complained about that makes it different from previous campaigns?   In most cases people file these kinds of reports because: They never requested to be on your email list. They did request to be on your email list at some point but have forgotten because they have not heard from you in so long.   The importance of using explicit opt-in in your list building efforts cannot be stressed enough. You should also send to active leads consistently enough that they continue to expect emails from you. The best ways to avoid complaint driven reputation issues is to send to opted-in, engaged recipients. To help with this, a lot of senders clear out their inactive leads every 6 months or so. An inactive lead is a contact that has taken no action in the given time period— they haven't opened an email, clicked a link, visited your webpage, attended a Webinar, and so forth. Inactive leads are a dangerous group to continue mailing to because their behavior proves that they do not want to interact with your mail and will likely complain to Marketo or to their ISPs about it. We have a great resource on how to create a Smart List to remove inactive leads here. If you still need some help, please feel free to reach out to our Support team (support@marketo.com). Additional resources: Abuse Report Deep Dive Blacklist Deep Dive    
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Issue Issue Description Unable to send Operational Email via Marketo Sales Insight in Salesforce when the lead is flagged as unsubscribed.     Solution Issue Resolution Check the settings for your Sales Emails in Admin > Sales Insights.  You may have them set to "Respect Unsubscribe Settings." If you wish for MSI to respect the operational email flag this will need to be changed to "Ignore Unsubscribe Settings" for Operational Emails.   Who This Solution Applies To Customers using Marketo Sales Insight
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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 A lot of people suddenly synced from Salesforce to Marketo. They have been in SFDC for a long time, so you're wondering why they suddenly synced.     Solution People sync from Salesforce for a number of reasons. If they aren't new leads, then they probably met some criteria that caused them to be visible to the Marketo Sync User and sync down. One thing to keep in mind is that if the visibility rules change, Marketo won't actually see those people until a field that Marketo can see changes. Marketo looks at the "sysmodtime" stamp on a record. This indicates the last time a record was modified. If the record was changed since the last time the sync ran, then Marketo updates the record on the Marketo and SFDC side with the newest information. There have been cases where the visibility rules changed, but the new records that Marketo could see weren't updated for a considerable period of time. (This could be as long as years.) However, if something eventually changed and updated the sysmodtime, these leads would all sync to Marketo. The change can be anything, but if it's a large number of people, it's frequently a change on the Account object, which then filters down to the Contacts and Leads. If you're still unsure why a large number of people have synced to Marketo, the first thing to look at is what information changed, since Marketo only syncs people when they are updated with new information.
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Issue A person record in Marketo is getting created by the CRM sync even though there is a previously existing record existing in the Marketo database with the same email address. Solution By design, Marketo does not run the standard de-duplication process on records that come from your CRM. If you wish to prevent duplicates from coming over from your CRM, you would need to hide them from the Marketo sync user on the CRM side, or work with Marketo support to set up a custom sync filter. Instructions for Creating a Custom Sync Rule  
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Issue Customize call outcomes in Salesforce.     Solution 1. Go to your Setup page in Salesforce   2. Customize > Activities > Task Fields 3. Click into Subject field 4. From here, you can add/remove/re-order all the options 5. Then, you will see this custom list in Tout when completing a call      
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Issue After deleting a lead or contact in Salesforce that has been synced to Marketo as a person record, attempting to merge that synced Person record with another Person record in Marketo keeps failing.     Solution When a merge is performed in Marketo, the Marketo Sync User will first automatically attempt to merge the associated records in Salesforce. If the records have been deleted in Salesforce this attempt to merge the records in Salesforce will fail, meaning that the rest of the merge operation will fail in Marketo. To complete this merge, the best option is to perform the merge through the API. The Merge Leads endpoint allows you to skip the automatic Salesforce merge attempt that will always run when performing the merge through the Marketo UI. Marketo support does not troubleshoot or write custom API calls like this, so it is best to work with your in-house developer or IT staff to create these API calls. http://developers.marketo.com/rest-api/endpoint-reference/lead-database-endpoint-reference/#!/Leads/mergeLeadsUsingPOST        
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Issue You have a custom landing page template and are able to see that landing page is not rendering perfectly on the editor but works as expected when published.   Solution As you are facing the issue on a custom template, we suggest you to follow the below steps.   Download a template form the URL- https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/marketo/using/product-docs/demand-generation/landing-pages/landing-page-templates/guided-landing-page-template-list.html In Marketo, navigate to the Design Studio Click Landing Pages in the left-hand tree, then select Templates. In the menu bar, click Import Template. Choose the downloaded file, enter a template name, then click Import (make sure to pick a descriptive name and indicate that editing mode is Guided). Create a new Landing page with the recently downloaded template without making any changes. If the default background image works on this landing page as expected, it confirms that the issue lies with the custom coding that was added to the template. Marketo Support is not set up to assist with troubleshooting custom code. The best point of contact will be your web developer who should be able to resolve the issue for you. Please be aware that the landing page editor may not load all external resources in the editor or previewer, which can cause them to look different than the published version. If the background image doesn’t render on this newly downloaded template as well, contact support and we will assist in troubleshooting your issue.    
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Issue You have developed a Marketo landing page and enabled Personalized URLs (PURLs) for your records but when people visit the PURL, form pre-fill does not take place.   Solution When a person visits a PURL landing page, the form pre-fill checks their Munchkin tracking cookie to identify what values to populate for the form fields. If that person has a Munchkin tracking cookie associated to a known record in the database, it will pull and populate the information from that record. However, if this is the first time this person has visited a Munchkin tracked page or their browser is tied to an anonymous record, the pre-fill will not populate any information into the form. The customer/prospect will need to fill out a form or click on a tracked link in an email sent from Marketo. This will allow future PURLs that people visit going forward will have pre-fill populate as their cookie will be tied to a known record in the database. The web page visit will be associated back to the know record for the PURL. Additionally, you can also use Person related tokens on the landing page and those will resolve. For examples having the token in the text that states {{lead.First Name:default=Default}} within the body of the landing page will populate with the expected persons first name for the PURL they visited. This is because the token generation goes through a different path on the back end for PURLs.    
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Issue You want to know if updated lead/person record data will reflect changes to that data made while the lead was in a wait step. This is important to know, because values could affect the following flow steps. For example, if there is a choice in the send email flow step that is determined by those values. Solution Any information that was updated while the lead was in the wait step will be reflected in the next step.  
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Issue Description When trying to import a list of people into Marketo via a list import, their names are being left blank despite being listed clearly in your CSV. Example CSV headers: NAME                   Email John Smith           JS@email.com Smith John           SJ@email.com Greg Jones          GJ@email.com Issue Resolution Full Name is a system managed field that is blocked from being updated by list imports. You will want to split the one column of Name, into two columns of First Name and Last Name.  This document from excel shows how to split the one Name cell into two different cells.  https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Split-a-cell-f1804d0c-e180-4ed0-a2ae-973a0b7c6a23
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Issue Description Windows Outlook users who use the Marketo Sales Connect plugin might have noticed that emails don't send as fast as they usually do. Unfortunately it takes a little longer than usual on this particular platform due to a recent MSC plugin update. We are working on a long-term fix for this subset of customers, but in the meantime you can use the following workarounds:  Issue Resolution If you switch Outlook to, "Online Mode" (as opposed to Cached Exchange Mode) this will decrease the total sending time. You can follow this document in order to turn off Cached Exchange Mode. If you would like to learn more about the differences between Online Mode and Cached Exchange Mode, you can read more here.  Alternatively, you can also use the Web version or Mac version of Outlook to address this issue. Who This Solution Applies To Windows Outlook users who utilize the Marketo Sales Connect plugin.
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Issue: When building 'Program Membership Analysis' reports in RCE, the Program Status is not sorted according to the step values in the Program Channel. For example in the below screenshot: The value of the steps are clearly showing the progression of statuses from start to finish.   However when building a 'Program Membership Analysis' report, it is showing that the order of the status is not correct. 'New Member (Influenced)' should be appearing after 'Subscribed by Form - Non Member.'   Troubleshooting: Make sure that you do not have any other Programs Channels with the same Status, as this will cause issues. There is a deduplication that occurs in the backend which causes an issue when a 'Program Membership Analysis' report is created, if there is more than one Program Channel that has the same Program Status it will deduplicate and the one displayed might be due to the lower step.   Another issue that might happen also due to having more than one occurance of Program Status in other Program Channels is that other Program Statuses might appear in the report due to this.   Resolution: We currently do not support having more than one Program Status appear in the Program Channels, each Program Status has to be unqiue or issues with displaying Program Statuses will appear.
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Issue Issue Description Links in Interesting Moments viewed in Salesforce Sales Insight section are not clickable. Trying alternative methods of inserting links, such as in <a> tags, still results in being unable to click these links within Salesforce.     Solution Issue Resolution There are no current methods for inserting links into Interesting Moments so the link is clickable within Salesforce record's Sales Insight section.    Who This Solution Applies To Customers using Sales Insight for Salesforce
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Issue Description A lead ran through a smart campaign and should have been sent a push notification but there is no activity of this happening even though the lead is a member of the campaign. Issue Resolution Assuming other leads are receiving the push notification (which suggests the app itself is not to blame) the first thing to check is the lead record itself. If the lead is marked as Marketing Suspended or Black Listed, this will prevent the record from receiving a push notification. Mark these fields as "False" and send the record through the campaign again, the lead should now be sent the push notification. Who This Solution Applies To ​Customers using Marketo's mobile app integration
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Issue Issue Description Need to know how often websites are crawled, keyword rankings are updated, and link data refreshes.     Solution Issue Resolution Marketo SEO automatically crawls your website weekly, and the results are shown in the Pages Section. Keyword rankings are updated weekly as well. Link data updates once a month. The above updates are guidelines as to the freshness of data being viewed, and how much time one can expect for specific data sets within the Marketo SEO tool to refresh. Operational SEO updates typically happen between 12am-2am Central time. Who This Solution Applies To Customers with SEO
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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: 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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