Why you can’t use the same branding domain across multiple Marketo instances
Ah, sweet and glorious DNS — one of many technologies nobody learns anymore. ٭٭shakes fist at cloud services٭٭ →
2 reasons numeric fields may unexpectedly appear as negative numbers outside of Marketo
A couple of cases where your IT team might think everything looks good (since a value at least exists) but your marketing eye says “Nope.” →
Do your future self a favor and don’t use the form ID (#mktoForm_𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛) in Custom CSS — use a portable name
Most cardinal rules of “real” programming apply to CSS and HTML, too. One is to avoid magic numbers, like hard-coded ˂form˃ IDs, and use names instead. →
In FlowBoost webhooks, use x-user headers to hide secrets from non-admins
Starting from the new v22, use x-user- headers to pass any secret stuff to FlowBoost. Custom headers don’t show up in the Marketo Activity Log, so only Admins know about them. →
Displaying and storing form-entered email addresses in lowercase
You probably know that email addresses are teeeeeechnically case-sensitive but, like most sensible creatures, you treat them as if they’re case-insensitive. (As Marketo Smart Lists obviously do!) Wouldn’t →
A simple way to output query param values in the page body
💡This code does not work in any version of Internet Explorer, as it relies on URLSeachParams and Custom Elements v1. An earlier post showed how to append form field values →
You cleared the Munchkin cookie from a form post, but you forgot the mkt_tok
Clearing the Munchkin cookie does one thing, and does it well. But chances are you want this other thing, too. →
Velocitip: the less than ﹤ and greater than ﹥ operators fail silently with Strings (VTL ain’t JavaScript!)
Velocity is in essence a way a more “sugary” way to write Java, and has almost nothing in common with with JavaScript. But even I forget sometimes and think it plays by JS rules. →