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alex.stanton
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July 28, 2015
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Is the ability to swap email or landing pages template coming?

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I read somewhere in the community that Marketo is working on a feature that will allow users to swap email or landing page template. Is there a planned release date?

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    user35571
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    November 19, 2022

    I know this is a 7 yr. old post ... but did this feature ever get implemented (or will it ever)? 

    I don't see an option for changing the template of a cloned landing page.

    Michael_Florin-2
    Michael_Florin-2
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    November 20, 2022

    I don't think it will ever come.

     

    Mainly because it's somewhat impossible: If you change an email template or a guided LP template, you might change the editable sections. And that makes it hard to imagine that you could clone an email with sections A, B and C into a new template with sections A, B, C and D.

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      user35571
      New Participant
      November 21, 2022

      I'm currently making revisions to an existing template that's being used by over 40 landing pages.

      I'd like to test this new version of the template (named differently) against these landing pages,

      but I don't want to use the live versions.

      So I'd like to clone each of them and test with the new template, which I can't do because I can't change the template of the cloned landing page.

      I could recreate each landing page using the new template but that would be extremely time-consuming. 

       

      How would you get around this then? Or do folks usually test against live pages which isn't really a good practice imo.

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      AlokRa4
      New Participant
      November 30, 2015

      In some on my recent interactions with MKTO team, there are chances that this would be coming in Q2 update. For Q1, MKTO is focusing more on fixing issues and enhancements for Guided LP templates.

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      Anonymous
      November 28, 2015

      Should be released soon.  Hopefully Q1 of 2016

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      alex.stantonAuthor
      New Participant
      November 29, 2015

      That is excellent news Jamie!

      Grégoire_Miche2
      Grégoire_Miche2
      New Participant
      November 28, 2015

      Oh My... Some ideas on this are 5 years old:

      And I probably missed a few

      -Greg  

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      alex.stantonAuthor
      New Participant
      November 29, 2015

      Absolutely - my question was referring to something I read that was hinting at a release in the not-too-distant future. It looks like it is coming soon.

      Stijn_Heijthuij
      Stijn_Heijthuij
      New Participant
      November 28, 2015

      Hi Alex,

      It's been mentioned a couple of times before and there's even some ideas floating around somewhere. Take a look and vote for them.

      As far as I know it's on Marketo's radar, but they've probably got some bigger fish to fry in the meantime.

      Frank_Breen2
      Frank_Breen2
      New Participant
      November 27, 2015

      For Free-form landing pages, Marketo already gives you the power to change the Landing Page template, if you use the Clone Tool, then at the bottom, you can change the Template to a new one, unfortunately this isn't the case for the Guided Template. Using Snippets to change your Email Design, gives far more flexibility than using different Email Templates, I had 150 email templates before for different designs, now I'm using Snippets, I have 1 Email Template with 150+ Snippets. If you ever want to decommission a email template (active emails or archive), go to each email and add a comment (<!-- -->) to the top of the template in the replace HTML section (Edit an Email's HTML​). It's a lot of work but when you see the power of Snippets as a Template Design tool, you'll never look back. Also look at this trick for collapsing empty mktEditable Sections​ in case you feel one template doesn't answer all your template problems.

      I hope this helps a bit, in the period where Marketo develops the ability to change easily.

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