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  • Re: The Results in Marketo of Merging Leads or Contacts in SFDC

    Hi Greg, I voted for your idea. I liked how you defined the different options. Nice job.

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  • The Results in Marketo of Merging Leads or Contacts in SFDC

    If there are duplicate records based on email address in SFDC both will appear in Marketo. Marketo doesn’t de-dupe records coming from SFDC since we view the duplicates created in SFDC as intended behavior. When you merge SFDC lead or contacts records in SFDC, in general, the master record prevails...

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  • Using a SFDC Picklist Field in a Marketo Form

    Picklists from a SFDC field will show up as values on a Marketo form if you change the field type of the field in the form to Select. Only values common to both Lead & Contact/Account will appear in the Marketo picklist. Changes to a picklist in SFDC will not change the picklist of an existing form...

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  • SFDC Field Types Mapped to Marketo Field Types

    Field types from SFDC fields are automatically mapped to field types in Marketo. SFDC FieldMarketo Field TypeTextStringLong Text AreaTextCheckboxBooleanPicklistStringNumberInteger but can be changed to ScoreDateDateDate/TimeDatetime You can change the field type in Marketo for custom fields as long...

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  • SFDC Email Opt-Out Field Deep Dive

    SFDC Opt-Out field on the Lead and Contact Objects is mapped to the Marketo Unsubscribed field. Whenever a sales rep checks the SFDC Email Opt Out box, the Lead will be unsubscribed in Marketo. If the Unsubscribed field in Marketo changes to false the Email Opt Out field in SFDC will change as well...

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  • Changing a SFDC Field Type or Length Deep Dive

    Changing the type of a SFDC field is one of the reasons why landing pages are put into draft mode automatically by Marketo. Change to FieldMarketo Form Automatically Re-ApprovedMarketo Landing Page Automatically Moved to DraftLength of text field increasedYesYesLength of text field decreasedNoNoFiel...

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  • Re: When Do the Marketo Account/Company Fields Become Read Only

    Hi Angela. Yes, blocking the company field from being updated on a form should solve your issue.

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  • Converting a Lead into a Contact in Salesforce

    When a record is converted in SFDC from a lead to a contact Marketo automatically changes the SFDC Type field from Lead to Contact.The change in SFDC type doesn’t cause a data value change so the Data Value Changes trigger and filter won’t work for SFDC Type. You will need to use the Lead is Convert...

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  • When Do the Marketo Account/Company Fields Become Read Only

    If you are integrated with a CRM like SFDC, the account/company fields in Marketo as viewed on the Company Info tab of a record are editable when a record is in Marketo only or is a SFDC lead. When a SFDC Lead is converted to a SFDC Contact the account/company fields become related to the SFDC Acc...

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  • Syncing a Previously Hidden SFDC Field

    If you previously hid a particular field from the Marketo profile through field-level security and now you expose it to Marketo, the existing field values will only sync to Marketo when a field on the record is modified and the last modified date changes. If you want all the values of the field to ...

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