How do I have marketo set the activity type when creating an activity in Salesforce?

[Anonymous]

Currently when Marketo synchs activities such as sales emails to Salesforce it does not set the activity type to email.  How can I change that so that my reporting is accurate?

[Valerie_Armstro]

The ability to designate an activity type when creating a task in Marketo is currently not available.  There is a suggestion to add this functionality in the idea section that you can vote on here.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Val is right, and this is a commonly requested feature. 

You could use Salesforce workflows to change the Type based on the subject information, but that's outside the scope of Marketo.