Attachments on form submits

[Anonymous]

Hello,
Has anyone added the functionality to their form that allows for an attachment to be emailed along with a form submit? Thank you,
--Regan

[Anonymous]

If you're talking about Marketo emails, this is not yet possible. The best practice method is to include a link in the email which points directly to the file. Clicks on this link will be tracked also, which is a major benefit.

Here is a recently updated Marketo article on the subject: 

http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000Kze5CAC

[Anonymous]

Thank you, Adam. I failed to mention it's for a landing page. We have a request form for a consulting project and were hoping to allow those filling out a form to attach a description of their project in file format.

[Anonymous]

Ah, I see - you want the "lead" to be able to submit a file which is then emailed to your company right?

This would require some custom coding which displays a file selector on your landing page, uploads the submitted file to some web server, and sends the email containing the file. You'll certainly need a web developer for this task.

A quick, temporary solution would be to simply direct the user after submitting the form to a page with a mailto:yourcompany@company.com on it, so they can send you the file directly.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your help, Adam! I'll use your second solution in the iterim, since it might take some time to get our web developers to help 🙂