One of the most unreal FUD passages I’ve seen
Reading the docs of an unnamed CDP. It’s a very impressive app whose tag manager piece easily outclasses GTM (I consider GTM the spawn of a minor demon). Then →
The Marketo REST Asset API returns invalid ISO 8601 DateTimes
Honestly not sure how this bug exists — you’d think Adobe would use a Date library that prevents it from happening. →
Velocitip: double quotes (") aren’t interchangeable with single quotes (')
Never let them tell you Velocity is an overnight learn. →
The maximum parseable + loggable length of a Marketo webhook response is 10,000 bytes
Something for my fellow push-it-to-the-limit Marketo pros. Discovered this when sending a ton of debug info back from a FlowBoost webhook. (Not to map that info to Marketo fields, only →
No, you cannot use the {{Lead.Email Address}} token in the From: header!
Apparently, people still try this. The business case might be okay (though old-fashioned) but it’s technically doomed. →
Temporarily show hidden field values (for debugging conversion tracking scripts)
Outdid myself with this one, I must say. Already using it with multiple clients — plus running the code on random websites out of curiosity. Think you’re gonna love it. →
A quirk with slash-escapes (\n, \r, \s) in the Marketo webhook editor
Marketo webhooks put all other webhooks to shame. But their configurability means a few more things to master. →
Removing duplicate items from a multivalued string field using FlowBoost
SFDC picklists and Marketo form checkbox sets become so-called “multivalued strings” in the Marketo db. But in the Marketo UI, they’re just strings that happen to have semicolons — there’s no native awareness of sub-values. FlowBoost, on the other hand, has full awareness and can do magic. →