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I'm a web, database, and network architect based in NYC, with specializations in the financial services, publishing, and SaaS sectors. I build complex Marketo integrations for companies large and small... and can make Marketo forms and emails do things you never thought possible! Check out my blog at https://blog.teknkl.com, which has Marketo-specific technical insights you won't see anywhere else, along with wider topics from my programming and systems work.
Joined the community 23-07-2014
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  • Inverting the submitted value of a Forms 2.0 Checkbox

    The Forms 2.0 Checkbox type works straightforwardly: if it’s checked, it sends the string “yes” to Marketo, and if it’s unchecked, it sends the string “no”.If the corresponding Marketo field is a Boolean, the “yes” is saved as true, and the “no” is saved as false.[1]This behavior is desired almost a...

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  • Disturbingly detailed Velocity: $string.substring(0,$string.length()) ...

    Memory still matters!RAM sticks are cheap and plentiful, and it’s been over a decade since everyday users needed to worry about memory usage on their desktop or laptop.Yet that’s not the case on the server side. There’s still a pretty low ceiling for per-process/per-tenant RAM allocation in traditio...

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  • Creating trackable links even when a token includes “http://” or “http...

    Marketo's URL field type is a weird wee beastie. For one thing, it’s not long enough to fit all URLs (you can store decoded URLs to save space).For another, although a URL value must begin with http:// or https:// when validated on a form (indeed, absolute URLs must have a protocol part[1]) includin...

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  • Don’t choose “promo” as your Marketo LP domain (promo.example.com)

    We usually say you can choose any subdomain as your Marketo LP domain, as long as it’s not already used by your company: pages.example.com, lp.example.com, get.example.com, signup.example.com, whatever-sounds-right.example.com. But in truth there are subdomains you definitely should not choose: prom...

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  • Re: Filtering Email Bot Activity Feature FAQs

    Couldn't have said it better than @Christiane_Rode. It's about comparative reporting. We have a lot of trouble claiming something is invisibly working.

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  • The Marketo ↔︎ Salesforce “URL” type supports Unicode: make sure your ...

    It’s well-established that SFDC’s URL field type isn’t up to the task of storing real-world URLs, since it maxes out at 255 characters.[1]What isn’t discussed much, if at all, is that those 255 characters aren’t limited to ASCII. Indeed, a URL field can contain an IRI, a.k.a. URL with Unicode charac...

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  • Re: Marketo Success Series: Forms

    for error check and auditing purposes, what is the best way to export form data into a report?An Activity Log extract via the REST API contains the details of each Filled Out Form activity. This is the only way to see the form data as originally processed by Marketo.

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  • Re: In Visibility Rules, “Contains” means a regular expression, not a ...

    I'm thinking yes, with a regex matching on the semicolon-delimited string you get from Checkboxes ("sports;theater"). But haven't tried this exact method.

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  • Appending form fields to the Thank You URL

    If your form’s Thank You page is on a different private domain — not just another subdomain of your main domain — and you want to pass over form values, they need to be appended to the query string.[1]For example, if you’re forwarding people to a partner site, they probably have a keen interest in t...

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  • Re: Filtering Email Bot Activity Feature FAQs

    Should eliminate logging activities into Marketo that identified as botsVs Should just mark the identified activities with an attribute let's say bot-activity "True" Which approach do you think we should stick with going forward?I far prefer the latter (marking).

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