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Hi community Given for instance:   #set( $foo = ["a", "b"] ) #set( $bar = ["b", "c"] ) How to a.) merge foo and bar into a new variable, which has b.) unique values: ["a", "b", "c"] ? Thanks in advance! 🙂 ... View more

Hi community, In an email script/Velocity, what's the best way to anti-match a single value against a list of values in an if clause with several conditions? For example: I could do   #set( $country = 'United States' ) #set( $list = ['United States','United Kingdom'] ) #if( !$list.contains($country) && 1 == 1 ) Salve, #else Dear friend, #end   or   #set( $country = 'Italy' ) #if( !$country.matches('^(United States|United Kingdom)$') && 1 == 1 ) Salve, #else Dear friend, #end   However, I am looking for a more direct and faster way in the veins of   #if( !['United States','United Kingdom'].contains($country) && 1 == 1 )   or something similar.  As I came across this question a few times already, I thought I'd ask. Thank you. ... View more

Hi there,   My challenge: I've got a form with a checkbox field F, and I want to timestamp each form submission where F is ticked. The challenge is to do so when F is already "True" in the database. That is because afaik neither a form submission with BLANK, nor one with TRUE will trigger a "Data Value Changed" event, and a smart campaign's smart list trigger can also not check for form field values. Therefore, it's currently either timestamping both (= submitted form trigger, and F is TRUE), or timestamping none.   Question: How would you tackle this efficiently? I.e., for a person with F being TRUE in the database, how would you trigger upon a form fill with F again being TRUE and NOT on form fills with F being BLANK? ... View more

Hi, I am using a trigger-based smart campaign to send an email. And I'd like to check upon email rendering, not in the smart list, if certain prerequisite are available in a specific way, and, if not, let the email send fail. I think I recall that an error during velocity parsing results in a sort of soft bounce/fail for the email send. How would I provoke that in practice? I.e., as strange as it might sound, I am looking for a code example in the veins of:   #if( ... ) Provoke velocity error/bounce #end   TY. ... View more

Greetings Marketo-Nation,   I often found myself exceeding the 100KB limit[1] for Velocity scripts in emails. Therefore, I wanted to ask for better ways to achieve what I am trying do to. (Not so much about polishing bits code, although I am happy to get advise there, too, but more after general strategy.)   What I am trying to do: a.) Keep JSON-like data structures at a central place/token, e.g. for recommending next best actions [2]. b.) Pick proper elements from a.) for any individual email recipient, and make the elements' attributes accessible in Velocity variables [3]. c.) Turn the picks into HTML in order to display up to 10 recommendations in that email[4].   Why does it not scale/work: Now, a.) and c.) bloat up the code pretty quickly beyond 100K Bytes. For c.), because I cannot use a loop to display the recommendations; otherwise, the redirect/tracking links won't work. And a.), because there are potentially alot (>200) of items to pick from, not to say that these could have more attributes than mentioned in the example. Question: Is there a better way of achieving this? For example, by storing a.) in a different way?    Thanks in advance! [1] https://developers.marketo.com/email-scripting/   [2]     ## ################################# ## LIST OF POTENTIAL RECOMMENDATIONS ## ################################# #set( $assets = { "123": { "type": "A", "title": "foo", "image": "https://via.placeholder.com/350x150", "link": "amazon.com" }, "456": { "type": "B", "title": "bar", "image": "https://via.placeholder.com/350x150", "link": "google.com" } })       [3]     ## ############################################### ## PICK RECOMMENDATIONS AND EVALUATE LIST ELEMENTS ## ############################################### #set( $recos = ['123', '456'] ) #foreach( $reco in $recos ) #if( $assets.containsKey($reco.toString()) ) #set( $DL = $assets[$reco.toString()] ) #evaluate( "${esc.h}set( ${esc.d}DL_${foreach.count} = ${esc.d}DL )" ) #end #end       [4]     ## ####################### ## DISPLAY RECOMMENDATIONS ## ####################### #if( $DL_1 ) #if( $DL_1.link && !$DL_1.link.isEmpty() ) <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="fizz"> <a href="https://${DL_1.link}" target="_blank">Go there</a> </td> </tr> </table> #end #end #if( $DL_2 ) #if( $DL_2.link && !$DL_2.link.isEmpty() ) <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="fizz"> <a href="https://${DL_1.link}" target="_blank">Go there</a> </td> </tr> </table> #end #end               ... View more

Hello Marketo Nation, I've got a form field of type string, which is embedded as a checkbox. Upon form submission, it's either saved as "yes" or "no" to the Marketo Database. However, I want it to have "True" and "False" respectively. The field is synced with another platform, so ideally this mapping is reflected during form submission already, not corrected afterwards using a smart campaign. What's the best way to do this? Thanks in advance for your help!   ... View more

Hello community, I want to edit an API user. However, when trying to do so, Marketo says "You cannot edit an API user that is being used in API service". Does that mean, there's a non-expired access token for that user out there? I'm unsure on how to debug this, and finally edit the user; it is used only for manual API calls, i.e. the user is not used by any self-standing application or something.   ... View more

Hi Nation!   From our past email service provider, I've got an exported list of a few thousand email addresses, which must not receive any emails - also not via Marketo.   What is the Marketo way to ensure that persons, who exist today in the database, as well as persons that might get into the database in the future, and which are also part of the suppression/blacklist, don't get emails?   I know about the blacklisted field. However, this can only be set for existing persons. Also, if possible, I would not necessarily want to create a person/database entry for every blacklisted email address.   Thank you in advance for your help. 🙂 ... View more