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Bryant_Chang
Bryant_Chang
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External Webpage, external form, but want to pass back a form fill activity

  • July 1, 2015
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Developer question,

I am using an external webpage and external form for our homepage.

We want to be able to pass back a "filled out form" activity when they fill out that external form on our homepage.

looking at the resource page on munchkin, we are only able to push back "associatelead, clickedlink, visitedwebpage" activity types.

Is there resource on how we can push back a filled our form activity type?

Thanks

    Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

    You don't use Munchkin for that, you use the Forms 2.0 API.

    Create a dummy Marketo form to use for logging.  Then, in your external form's onsubmit (everything in {} is to be customized for your install):

    var formEl = document.createElement('FORM');

    formEl.id = 'mktoForm_' + {formid};

    formEl.style.display = 'none';

    document.body.appendChild(formEl);

    MktoForms2.loadForm('//{instancename}.marketo.com', '{MUNC-HKIN-CODE}', {formid}, function(form) {

        form.submit()

    });

    Of course, even easier is switching to using embedded Marketo forms on your external website and tossing your other form.  It avoids duplicate work and gets the fields in Marketo where they (presumably) belong.

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    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhitemanAccepted solution
    New Participant
    July 1, 2015

    You don't use Munchkin for that, you use the Forms 2.0 API.

    Create a dummy Marketo form to use for logging.  Then, in your external form's onsubmit (everything in {} is to be customized for your install):

    var formEl = document.createElement('FORM');

    formEl.id = 'mktoForm_' + {formid};

    formEl.style.display = 'none';

    document.body.appendChild(formEl);

    MktoForms2.loadForm('//{instancename}.marketo.com', '{MUNC-HKIN-CODE}', {formid}, function(form) {

        form.submit()

    });

    Of course, even easier is switching to using embedded Marketo forms on your external website and tossing your other form.  It avoids duplicate work and gets the fields in Marketo where they (presumably) belong.

    Bryant_Chang
    Bryant_ChangAuthor
    New Participant
    July 1, 2015

    Thanks Sanford!

    Believe this is exactly what I was looking for. Will send this to my dev guy.

    Reason we are not using a marketo form is because its a single field form (just email address) and want to have the button on the right of the field, which I couldn't get to work in the form builder. Is this possible in marketo?

    Either way thanks for your response.

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    New Participant
    July 1, 2015

    Sure, it's possible.  Probably needs a little custom CSS is all.  And for something so simple it's a pity to have to use an external form for it.  In fact, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but if you post the Marketo form with the user's email address the lead's web activities will be tracked, which is an important part of marketing automation.  if you use only an external form then an organic visit to your site will remain anonymous, even if it includes a form fillout. That's not so good.

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