Building a Marketo integration
This tutorial will give an example of how to create a Marketo integration that adds a new company from your app to the Linked Account’s Marketo.
Pre-requisites
- Marketo App is enabled in Cobalt.
- Trigger created in Cobalt. Refer here.
- Linked Account available. Refer here.
Building a Workflow
1. Create Workflow in app
- Go to your
Apps catalog
in Cobalt > Search forMarketo
>Workflows
>Add Workflow
> ChooseManually
> Give it a name and click onAdd Workflow
.
2. Adding the Trigger
To add a trigger for a Workflow in Cobalt, you need to select details about the Trigger like the Type and which trigger to be implemented.
To add a Trigger, follow these steps:
- Click on the Start node to add a trigger.
- In the right side, select the Type and the Trigger and click on the
Add Trigger
button.
3. Adding the Marketo Action
- From
Actions
, add a Marketo node to the workflow. - Click on the node and select an Action from the
Choose an Action
dropdown menu and click onSave
.
Before clicking on Save
, make sure that you have entered data for all the mandatory fields whichever required.
- Connect the two nodes by clicking on
+
button on theStart
node and dragging the arrow to the Marketo node.
4. Publishing the Workflow
- To publish the workflow, click on the
Publish
button in the top, Select Environments of the Workflow and click onPublish
.
Enabling the Workflow
To enable a workflow, end user or a Linked Account needs to Toggle On the Workflow after connecting with the application.
- Navigate to the Linked Account in which the Workflow needs to be enabled by getting its’ Hosted URL.
- Go to the Hosted URL and select Marketo from
Manage your Integrations
list. - Enter the required fields and click on
Connect
. - After a successful connection, you can see the
Configure
section in the Marketo Application page. - Enable the Workflow Create a new company by turning the toggle On and click on
Save
.
Fire an App Event
Lastly, we’ll fire an App Event whenever a contact is created in your app by using the Workflow.
- Navigate to
Try API
in Cobalt. - Choose the Linked Account created to test the workflow, select the Event and Marketo as the Application.
- Click on the
Fire Event
button in the top right.
- You can check the status of the event by navigating to
Logs
>Events
in Cobalt.
Congratulations! We have successfully built a Marketo integration that adds a new company from your app to the Linked Account’s Marketo.