Re: Controlling confirmation page from an external landing page

Anonymous · ‎03-25-2016

Background:

We are building a digital campaign that is driving traffic from various online media sources to a gated landing page on our website. The form on the landing page is hosted in Marketo. We would like to use this form for all gated content.

Ask:

Are there any tips for having the external landing page control the follow page, rather than having to have this associated to the form? If this were a Marketo landing page, we could change the setting on the LP to override the form, but not sure about an external LP.

Grégoire_Miche2 · ‎03-25-2016

Hi Nathan,

You need to pass the following page info as a URL parameter. Then in the landing page, you will have to use the forms 2.0 API (Forms 2.0 » Marketo Developers ) to change dynamically the follow-up page, as in this example from the doc:

MktoForms2.loadForm("//app-sjst.marketo.com", "785-UHP-775", 1057, function(form) {
   //Add an onSuccess handler
form.onSuccess(function(values, followUpUrl) {
   // Take the lead to a different page on successful submit, ignoring the form's configured followUpUrl
location.href = "https://google.com/?q=marketo+forms+v2+examples";
   // Return false to prevent the submission handler continuing with its own processing
   return false;
   });
});

-Greg

Anonymous · ‎03-25-2016

Thanks Grégoire! I will work with our developers to try this out.

SanfordWhiteman · ‎03-25-2016

Nathan, rather than hard-coding the follow-up URL within the JS, think about using a more semantic style (separation of concerns). Add a <link> in the <head>:


    <link rel="next" href="https://nation.marketo.com/thankyou1.html">

Then your JS is always the same on every page:

     location.href = document.querySelector('LINK[rel="next"]').href;

Anonymous · ‎03-28-2016

Thanks, Can you tell me more about how would this work if we wanted the confirmation page to vary based on a landing page's content?

Anonymous · ‎03-28-2016

Grégoire,

When we added the code to the landing page per the prescribed documentation examples: Forms 2.0 » Marketo Developers, we found that the form no longer rendered. If we comment the additional code out, the form works fine. See example of code here: Marketo RRLP Form .

Any thoughts on why this might be occurring?

Grégoire_Miche2 · ‎03-28-2016

Hi Nathan,

Can you please send the URL of the LP ?

-Greg

Anonymous · ‎03-28-2016

Hi Greg,

It seems that the code was referencing the wrong server. The one in the documentation is for an internal Marketo server.

Grégoire_Miche2 · ‎03-28-2016

HI Nathan,

Indeed. You need to refer your own forms 2.0 server, so the better is to start with your form's embed code and edit it.

-Greg