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Nick_Deboo1
Level 2
Mar 14, 2018 9:13 AM UTC
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Cookie hidden fields don't work if custom html is used for known visitors

Hi

I have lot of embedded forms on non-Marketo pages and I would like to make it easier for the visitor to e.g. fill in a webinar forms or ebook download forms.

Idea 1: pre-fill known fields

This doesn't work as the pre-fill unfortunately doesn't work with embedded forms on non-Marketo pages.

Idea 2: "If Known Visitor, Show:" custom html

This does work with embedded forms but the problem is that hidden fields don't take my cookie values.

Anyone other ideas? Transferring the content to Marketo landing pages is a no

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Craig_Boren
Level 2
Jun 27, 2019 12:23 AM UTC

Sanford Whiteman‌ - This is awesome! Thank you for this script. It worked perfectly!

One question - is there a way to set default utm_params with this script? For example, in the event that a return visitor comes to a page with Custom HTML set, and there are no utm parameters defined in the URL, we still want to attribute their visit with some type default utm params.

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SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
Jun 27, 2019 12:41 AM UTC

Sure, will update later when I'm by my machine.

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SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
Mar 14, 2018 6:11 PM UTC

Nick, you can reenable cookie (and query param) support via the code here: MktoForms2 :: KL HTML w/Auto-Fill

Note the dependency on the FormsPlus::Util (the <script> in the HTML pane).

Once you have that set, the only part you need to change is this little JSON block:

   var hiddenFieldMap = {

      Last_Result__c: {

         channel: "query",

         selector: "utm_results"

      },

      Field_From_Cookie: {

         channel: "cookie",

         selector: "ahoy_visitor"

      },

      Another_Field_From_Constant: {

         channel: "constant",

         selector: "Always use this value."

      }

   };

Hopefully, this is nearly self-explanatory...

  • the top-level properties (Last_Result__c, etc.) are the Marketo form field names
  • you set the channel (this is the term used by the Forms 2.0 API, so I reused it here) to either "query", "cookie", or "constant"
  • set the selector to the specific place to pluck the value from (the name of the cookie or query param to look for, or a static string in the case of "constant")
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Boone_White1
Level 2
Mar 29, 2018 6:05 PM UTC

I am actually having this cookie issue with my non-embedded forms. Basically not getting query parameter support when the "If Known Visitor, Show:" custom html is in use.

Will the JSON script above also reenable this data for me? If so where should I place that script?

Thank you so much for your help!

Boone White

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SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
Mar 29, 2018 6:19 PM UTC

Sure, Boone, you can use the same JS with any Marketo form, whether on a Marketo LP or on another site.

On a Marketo LP, you would include the formsplus-util.js <script>, then the custom JS in another <script>, right before the closing </body> tag.

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Grégoire_Miche2
Level 10
Mar 14, 2018 4:30 PM UTC

Hi Nick,

Log ideas rather than questions . People can vote and they are reviewed by Product Management.

Idea 1: pre-fill known fields

There are a lot of discussions and ideas already in the community on this. To make it short, there are good data security reasons for not doing this as someone could use your JS code to steal your data.

Idea 2: "If Known Visitor, Show:" custom html

Worth and idea so that we can vote for. Can be worked around with javascript, though.

-Greg

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