What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

[Nate_Oosterhous]

Question:

What happens and does not happen when you rename historic programs?

Background:

I am going through renaming old programs to abide by our new naming structure, however, I just noticed when I now run an email performance report on the old programs emails the emails still have the old program name.  This has me worried.  Doesn't his complicate things??

[Josh_Hill13 · Accepted solution]

Naming is supposed to be instant and non-impactful across the instance. It's only a variable. The ID# in the URL is the real asset id and Marketo sees the Name as a pointer variable.

Perhaps your report did not refresh?

Now, I have been somewhat careful with our instance on renaming old and important programs even though I know there should be ZERO impact.

I have seen issues with MOVING large numbers of programs at once. The move just fails, no breaking. But moving folders and programs could break your inherited tokens.

[Josh_Hill13]

And unless it's needed, I rarely do a mass re-name on older programs.

[Nate_Oosterhous]

Hi Josh,

That was it.  My report wasn't refreshing for whatever reason.  It had me worried of a minute!  Thanks!