Is the ability to swap email or landing pages template coming?

[Alex_Stanton1]

I read somewhere in the community that Marketo is working on a feature that will allow users to swap email or landing page template. Is there a planned release date?

[mkal88]

I know this is a 7 yr. old post ... but did this feature ever get implemented (or will it ever)? 

I don't see an option for changing the template of a cloned landing page.

[Darshil_Shah1]

I agree with @Michael_Florin! Two templates can be very different in terms of modules/design/etc. (since Marketo allows users to code their custom email/landing page templates) due to which the ability to swap templates isn't practically possible in Marketo.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Agreeing completely with Michael and Darshil. I would add that if you have specific business logic that would allow named modules from one template to be mapped to another template (and/or deliberately deleted) you could do this with the Asset API. Not at all easy, though.

[Michael_Florin]

I don't think it will ever come.

Mainly because it's somewhat impossible: If you change an email template or a guided LP template, you might change the editable sections. And that makes it hard to imagine that you could clone an email with sections A, B and C into a new template with sections A, B, C and D.

[mkal88]

I'm currently making revisions to an existing template that's being used by over 40 landing pages.

I'd like to test this new version of the template (named differently) against these landing pages,

but I don't want to use the live versions.

So I'd like to clone each of them and test with the new template, which I can't do because I can't change the template of the cloned landing page.

I could recreate each landing page using the new template but that would be extremely time-consuming. 

How would you get around this then? Or do folks usually test against live pages which isn't really a good practice imo.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Certainly a painful process. But again there’s no lossless way to map content between different templates.

Even if one template originated as a clone of another template, it could have immediately been changed. The slightest change in ID attributes, variable types, etc. would make content unmappable. So even if in practice, for 2 specific LP templates at a given point in time, you could map everything one-for-one, Marketo doesn’t check for that and instead disallows the practice entirely. (Though as I mentioned you could do it with the API.)

[Alok_Ramsisaria]

In some on my recent interactions with MKTO team, there are chances that this would be coming in Q2 update. For Q1, MKTO is focusing more on fixing issues and enhancements for Guided LP templates.

[Anonymous]

Should be released soon.  Hopefully Q1 of 2016

[Alex_Stanton1]

That is excellent news Jamie!

[Grégoire_Miche2]

Oh My... Some ideas on this are 5 years old:

And I probably missed a few

-Greg  

[Alex_Stanton1]

Absolutely - my question was referring to something I read that was hinting at a release in the not-too-distant future. It looks like it is coming soon.

[Stijn_Heijthuij]

Hi Alex,

It's been mentioned a couple of times before and there's even some ideas floating around somewhere. Take a look and vote for them.

As far as I know it's on Marketo's radar, but they've probably got some bigger fish to fry in the meantime.

[Frank_Breen2]

For Free-form landing pages, Marketo already gives you the power to change the Landing Page template, if you use the Clone Tool, then at the bottom, you can change the Template to a new one, unfortunately this isn't the case for the Guided Template. Using Snippets to change your Email Design, gives far more flexibility than using different Email Templates, I had 150 email templates before for different designs, now I'm using Snippets, I have 1 Email Template with 150+ Snippets. If you ever want to decommission a email template (active emails or archive), go to each email and add a comment (<!-- -->) to the top of the template in the replace HTML section (Edit an Email's HTML​). It's a lot of work but when you see the power of Snippets as a Template Design tool, you'll never look back. Also look at this trick for collapsing empty mktEditable Sections​ in case you feel one template doesn't answer all your template problems.

I hope this helps a bit, in the period where Marketo develops the ability to change easily.