Changing Segmentation without Breaking Dynamic Content

[Sarah_McMahen]

Hi!  I am new to Marketo and have a question.  Is there a way to add/edit/delete segmentations without breaking dynamic content? For instance, if we add a location or change a phone number in a footer, we do not want to have to redo all of the image, text, and footer content in hundreds of emails.  Thanks for your help!

[SanfordWhiteman]

It sounds like you're mixing together several features in Marketo, which makes your question hard to parse.

Adding new Segmentations doesn't affect any existing part of Marketo. Adding Segments to a Segmentation -- if the Segmentation is in use -- means you have new dynamic content to fork from the Default, but then again that's why you'd add a Segment in the first place. 

In your footer example, if you use a Dynamic Snippet (itself tied to a Segmentation) you can make changes to the Snippet alone and they will take effect everywhere.

[BenjaminJacquet]

I would imagine however, that if you delete a segment from a Segmentation it will wipe away existing dynamic content for it. Although I am doubtful Marketo would allow you to delete it if in use.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Although I am doubtful Marketo would allow you to delete it if in use.

You can delete a Segment even if the Segmentation is in use, and regardless of whether that Segment's dynamic content currently differs from the Default.