Using the Marketo Create Objects Activity

Use the Create Objects activity to create objects in Marketo.

About this task

Use this task to create objects in the Marketo. The call to this activity is a synchronous call where the input data is sent to the activity for processing and the response is sent back to the orchestration.

Procedure

  1. In an active orchestration, open the Activities tab and expand the Marketo folder contents.
  2. Drag the Create Objects activity icon onto the orchestration. Select the activity. The Marketo Create Objects Checklist is displayed.
  3. In the checklist, click Summary.
  4. Review the contents of the Activity Name field, and make the required changes.
  5. In the checklist, click Pick Endpoint.
  6. Click Browse and use the Project Explorer dialog box to select the relevant Marketo endpoint.
  7. Optional: You can create the endpoint by clicking New and specifying the required connection details. Click OK to save and use the endpoint for this configuration.
  8. To make required changes to the selected endpoint configuration, click Edit to access the options in a separate window. Any changes you make globally affects all uses of the endpoint in active orchestrations.
  9. In the checklist, click Configure.
  10. Click Browse to select the object type. The Browse Marketo window is displayed.
  11. In the Browse Marketo window, you can select the object type from the object type list. Click OK.
  12. In the Checklist, click Retry. Review the default settings and make the required changes.
  13. Select the Map Inputs in the Checklist. The XML Schemas generated from the selected object of the Create Objects activity are displayed as nodes under the request input parameter in the To Activity panel.
    • Different objects have different sets of mandatory fields to create a record. Mandatory fields, if not specified will result into error message listing out missing fields.
    • For create File, files of types text/html, text/plain are supported. ContentType should be provided with one of this values with data in field called “file”.
    Note:
    • Create File and Create Email template will need binary data as input parameter for fields ‘file’ and ‘content’ respectively.
    • In Create File if we try to upload same file again and
      • If ‘insert only’ flag is true then it will throw the error message for duplicate file creation.
      • If ‘insert only’ flag is false then it will execute the request successfully but the file content will not be updated.
    • Create Custom Activities is not supported. The feature is not enabled in the Marketo Instance hence not implemented. Ticket has been raised with Marketo support team.
  14. Create a map between the orchestration variables and the input parameter of the activity.
    Note: Values must be provided at run time for any mandatory elements of the input structure. A value can be provided by specifying a default value for element or by linking the element with an input node. During run time if no value is provided for a mandatory element, the activity throws an exception, which is reported by the Web Management Console. If a value is not provided at run time for an optional input parameter, no exception is thrown during run time.
  15. Select the Map Outputs in the Checklist. The XML Schema generated to hold the response of the activity is displayed as nodes under the response output parameter in the From Activity panel.
  16. Create a map between the output parameters and orchestration variables.

Results

You have configured the Marketo Create Objects activity.
Note:

You can add more than one object as input to this activity. To add more than one object as input, right click the Object Name (For example: Company) field in the To Activity pane of Map Inputs, and select Expand Occurrences.




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Timestamp icon Last updated: Tuesday, 27 September 2016


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