Form fields in an email

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Form fields in an email

I have a request to add 5 questions within a Marketo email instead of going to a landing page. Is there a workaround? Is it possible to set up a form within an email?

Is there a workaround in Marketo that allows us to do this? Thanks for your help!

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SanfordWhiteman
Level 10 - Community Moderator

Re: Form fields in an email

Emails don't support forms (this has been discussed here a few times -- do a search).

You can have a single question that's answered via link click. But then you need to take them to the full form for the remainder of the qs.

Trish_Voskovitc
Level 5

Re: Form fields in an email

Sanford,

Can you direct me to an article/instructions on how to add 1 field to an email (single question that's answered via link click). I am not finding anything.

Trish

SanfordWhiteman
Level 10 - Community Moderator

Re: Form fields in an email

Just add a link that carries the "answer" in the query string:

<a href="http://pages.example.com/pagewithform?question1=oranges">I choose oranges</a>

Then set a hidden field on your form to AutoFill from that query param.

In this setup, they still need to click a button to submit the answer. And this is A Good Thing, as I would no longer suggest tracking anything based only on the click. Mail scanners will click links for you, which makes such "instant" methods unusable in the real world.