Marketo Connector

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Connect a Marketo Account

This article is for Account Owners and Project Managers.

The Smartling Marketo connector allows you to translate Marketo content with context. Translations are requested from within the Smartling platform, and translated content is automatically sent to your Marketo instance.

The connector supports translation of emails, landing pages, forms, programs and snippets.

To link your Marketo account to Smartling, complete all sections below.

Set Up Marketo API Role

To use the connector, you first need to create the following in Marketo:

  • An API role
  • A dedicated API user
  • A LaunchPoint service in the Marketo dashboard 

To do this, follow the steps in the Quickstart Guide for Marketo REST API.

Callout: You only need to grant this role with Read-Write Assets.

Setup Smartling Marketo Connector

Authenticate

  1. Create a Marketo project type in your Smartling account.
  2. From within this project, click Project Settings > Marketo.
  3. In Marketo API Settings, enter the following:
    • Client ID: Available from Marketo Admin Dashboard in Integration > Launchpoint.
    • Client Secret: Available from Marketo Admin Dashboard in Integration > Launchpoint.
    • Endpoint: Available from Marketo Admin Dashboard in Integration > Web Services.
    • Identity: Available from Marketo Admin Dashboard in Integration > Web Services.
    • Custom placeholder (regular expression): Content matching this regular expression will not be editable by Translators.
  4. Click Save.

Configure

Plain Text Emails

The Smartling Marketo Connector allows you to translate the plain text version of your emails if your Marketo template is set to generate plain text.

To enable this feature:

  1. From within this project, click Project Settings > Marketo.
  2. Switch the Translate Plain Text Email toggle to On that appears above Marketo API Settings.

Translation Settings

Choose the languages you want to translate your Marketo content to:

  1. From within this project, click Project Settings > Marketo.
  2. Use the checkbox to select the languages you wish to translate to. If a desired language is missing, add the language to your Smartling Project

Ready to translate Marketo content? See our Marketo translation guide.

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