We would like to create a campaign in Marketo that pulls blog details from a wordpress blog that then populates those select blogs (image, url) into an email. I have seen some integrations that automatically pull RSS feed content into emails on a schedule but we would need this to occur on a form fill out.
We have some ideas but would love to hear from anyone else in the community that may have done something similar.
Thank you!
I've never done this before, but if I were to try I think that - assuming these blogs are not being selectively chosen based on data that is unique to the lead - I would prefer to use the REST API to periodically refresh the values of program My Tokens: http://developers.marketo.com/rest-api/assets/tokens/#create_and_update
http://developers.marketo.com/rest-api/assets/tokens/#create_and_update
I think that would be a simpler, more reliable process, and easier to QA (you can just send yourself a sample email or use the preview, rather than testing with lead records which have to trigger a webhook individually).
But that's not triggered, thus not meeting the spec ("occur on a form fillout").
Ah I just reread and saw they'd already considered the option on a schedule and didn't want that - my bad.
Sure, you can pull whatever you want in via a webhook. Trigger the webhook on Filled Out Form, trigger the email on Change Data Value to the field you're using to receive the response.
You'd want to use a Textarea field no matter what, but the question is going to be whether you pull the feed data in as a raw feed and then #foreach over it and format the output using a Velocity script (gives you more control of formatting within Marketo) or supply the feed data as prefab HTML.
Also, you won't be feeding the raw XML/HTML response into the webhook. This won't work because Marketo will never gulp the entire XML text into a field. You want to encapsulate the XML/HTML response in a JSON string property. So the transport is JSON, the inner content is XML/HTML.