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Trevor_Parsell
Trevor_Parsell
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September 20, 2017
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Send data from Non-Marketo Forms using webhook

  • September 20, 2017
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Hello,

We are looking to send data from a non-marketo form to Marketo and create a lead record when someone submits the form. Would it be possible set up a GET webhook that can be called when someone submits the non-marketo form. Can we create a lead record using this method?

It will not be possible to recreate the forms in Marketo for this particular situation. Is there a better way to do this?

Best answer by Dan_Stevens_

Use the Forms 2 API as explained here: http://developers.marketo.com/blog/make-a-marketo-form-submission-in-the-background/

Just create a blank form so that you can reference the formID and pass whatever values to the existing form fields that you have in place.  We use this all of the time when offering our gated content on syndicated, third-party sites.

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Dan_Stevens_
Dan_Stevens_Accepted solution
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September 20, 2017

Use the Forms 2 API as explained here: http://developers.marketo.com/blog/make-a-marketo-form-submission-in-the-background/

Just create a blank form so that you can reference the formID and pass whatever values to the existing form fields that you have in place.  We use this all of the time when offering our gated content on syndicated, third-party sites.

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    New Participant
    September 20, 2017

    Yes -- but you don't want to do this as you will be crippling your capacity (with no upside).

    Instead, use a hidden Marketo form to post the non-Marketo form's data (it can be cross-posted to its original destination if you want). There are numerous Nation threads on this.

    A
    Anonymous
    August 30, 2018

    I am using a blank Marketo form to send the data to Marketo from a gravity form used on prisonfellowship.site/about/justicereform/landing-pages/justice-declaration. I used page builder to create the page and added the script in a custom html area but really confused with this part. Can you please lead me to the right direction?

    <form id="mktoForm_86" style="display:none"></form>

    <script>

    var myForm = MktoForms2.Form()[0];

    myForm.addHiddenFields({

    //These are the values which will be submitted to Marketo

    "Email":"test@example.com",

    "FirstName":"John",

    "LastName":"Doe"

    });

    myForm.submit();

    </script>

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    New Participant
    August 30, 2018

    Several problems here, some that are already causing errors and some that will cause new errors once you fix those.

    First, there's something wrong with the embed code and form ID you're attempting to use, as you can see in the F12 Console:

    Second, the code you put in your post above is not even in your page. This is quite confusing.

    Third, the code that is in your page doesn't do anything with the Gravity forms data. This looks like part of a setup block that's supposed to be used by another JS script, but nothing else is happening with it:

     var mktoForm = MktoForms2.getForm(86),
      fieldMap = [
      {
      marketo: "Email",
      custom: "[name=input_1]"
      }
      {
      marketo: "FirstName",
      custom: "[name=input_3]"
      }
      {
      marketo: "LastName",
      custom: "[name=input_2]"
      }
      ],
      mktoFields = {};
     });
    mktoForm.submit();

    Fourth, integrating with a Gravity Form in particular is not as easy as with plain HTML or other library forms. There in fact used to be a blog post on how to do it, but it had to be taken down because it had too many bugs!

    In general I think you should retain a Marketo-fluent JS developer to help you with this. It's not a copy-and-paste thing, you have to grok the whole ecosystem.

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