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Harish_Gupta6
Harish_Gupta6
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July 8, 2015
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New field problem

  • July 8, 2015
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Hi,

I have created new field in Marketo with name "xyz" and I am using this field on forms. After approving the forms when I am rechecking the forms, its showing the field name as "xyz__c"

My question is how the name of field has changed automatically and whats the impact of this?

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Best answer by Kenny_Elkington

This actually is not true, fields created on the Marketo side have user-defined API names, and do not have an automatically appended suffix.  Fields with __c appended were likely created in SFDC and then provisioned in Marketo by the sync.  If you are building a custom form, you should use the SOAP API name from Export Field Names to ensure that you're submitting to the correct field.

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SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
July 8, 2015

"__c" just means "custom." It's perfectly harmless. Like Salesforce and other platforms, Marketo separates built-in fields from custom fields with a special suffix (some platforms use a prefix). This ensures that if the platform itself ever adds a field of the same name, there won't be a naming collision.

Harish_Gupta6
Harish_Gupta6Author
Level 6
July 8, 2015

And Suppose I am integrating this form in landing page and there i am creating hidden variable "xyz" then do i need to use name "xyz" or "xyz__c"

eg.

<input type="hidden" name="xyz" id="xyz" value="test"/>

or

<input type="hidden" name="xyz__c" id="xyz__c" value="test"/>

Which one is valid??

Harish Gupta
SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
July 8, 2015

You should be using the Marketo Forms Editor to build out your forms as much as possible, and complement that with the Forms 2.0 API.  What's the reason you're manually building out forms in raw HTML? 

In any case, the API name (__c) is the correct one.

Harish_Gupta6
Harish_Gupta6Author
Level 6
July 9, 2015

Hi,

I have observed one more strange thing.

I have different sets of forms. Some forms were designed using Latest Form editor and some were designed using the old Form editor.

All forms which were designed with New form editor has field name as "XYZ"

and all forms which were designed with Old form editor has field name as "XYZ__c"

To cross verify, I have removed the field from form designed with old editor and then add the field again but after reopening the form, i saw the field name as automatically chagned to "XYZ__c".

Why is it like this? Is it something related to Form editor. Please help me to understand.

Harish Gupta
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