Copying Custom Activity Values into Lead Fields?

[Michael_Florin]

An external tool sends Custom Activities to Marketo. 

Is there any way to write values from these activity fields into the lead database?

Thanks!
Michael

[Mark_Price · Accepted solution]

Not natively but you can with the API. 

If you're storing Order Data/Status It sounds like you may want a custom object to store the data.  (unless a record only ever has 1 order)

After the data is on the lead record or in a custom object you can merge it into emails.

Hope it helps! 

[SanfordWhiteman]

What Mark said, you shouldn't have chosen Custom Activities for this but rather Custom Objects. It's a lose-lose with CAs.

[Michael_Florin]

Thanks guys, that's what I figured.