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laevinsdad
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Need help with a Marketo form (NO Landing Page)

Hi everyone. I'm hoping you can help me resolve an issue with a Marketo Form.
I created a landing page and a form to go with it. The idea is to capture customer info and when they hit "submit" to send them to an external URL that is a .pdf brochure they requested.
The trigger for the smart list is "Fills Out Form". The subsequent flow sends an alert that someone has requested the brochure. This works perfectly when I test it. The issue is that I have been told we do not want to use a Marketo Landing Page, but would want to embed the Marketo form on our website (this is for reasons to do with End User experience).
When I try to test the form itself, it does not work. Nothing happens. 

Can someone give me some insights as to why the form alone cannot be tested? 
Can I embed the form only and have it work correctly?

Thank you! (new Marketo user as of March 2023)

Geoffrey Landrum, Marketing Content Specialist
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SanfordWhiteman
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Re: Need help with a Marketo form (NO Landing Page)


When I try to test the form itself, it does not work. Nothing happens.

You must test the form on a page. There’s no such thing as a form without a page — a <form> element exists within the <html> part of a webpage.

 

That page, of course, can be a Marketo LP with a named mktoForm element or a non-Marketo page using the embed code.*

 

You should be testing the embed code, since that’s what you’ll be using in production.

 

 

* Or even a Marketo LP with the embed code, but this is
not recommended as you lose the advantages of a named form.

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SanfordWhiteman
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Re: Need help with a Marketo form (NO Landing Page)


When I try to test the form itself, it does not work. Nothing happens.

You must test the form on a page. There’s no such thing as a form without a page — a <form> element exists within the <html> part of a webpage.

 

That page, of course, can be a Marketo LP with a named mktoForm element or a non-Marketo page using the embed code.*

 

You should be testing the embed code, since that’s what you’ll be using in production.

 

 

* Or even a Marketo LP with the embed code, but this is
not recommended as you lose the advantages of a named form.

laevinsdad
Level 3

Re: Need help with a Marketo form (NO Landing Page)

I had suspected as much, Sanford, but wanted clarification. Thank you so much for the help! 

Geoffrey Landrum, Marketing Content Specialist