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Eloqua Power Hour:

FORM INTEGRATION

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Introduction

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Chris Campbell

Project Manger

Eloqua CorporationOffice: (703) 584 2835

[email protected]

Member of Eloquas Professional Services team since 2010

Passionate about computer/internet technology and automation

Based in the San Francisco, CA office
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Agenda

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What is form integration?Three Types

Why/when to integrate forms?

How to integrate forms?

Example

Questions?


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What is form integration?

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Form integration consists of a form inEloqua that receives data from another

form or POST method.

Form hosted on your website Form asset in your Eloqua

(RE)POST


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Three Types Eloqua Hosted

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Eloqua Hosted fully maintained andmanaged by marketing:

Content form/landing page design/look

Data handling updating contactsVisitor experience email confirmation,

confirmation page, etc

Requirements:

Microsite configured


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Three Types Post Directly to Eloqua

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POST Directly to Eloqua form front end ismanaged by IT/Web team

Form actions are maintained by marketing

in Eloqua:Data handling updating contacts

Visitor experience email confirmation,

confirmation page, etc

Not hosted by Eloqua


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Three Types Repost to Eloqua

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REPOST to Eloqua form front end & someform actions are managed by IT/Web team:

Trial key, password generation

Data handling i.e., account storageSome form actions are maintained by

marketing in Eloqua:

Data handling updating contactsVisitor experience email confirmation, etc

Not hosted by Eloqua


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What is form integration?

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Data can be POSTeddirectly to an Eloqua form by the action on an

existing form referred to as POST

Data can be REPOSTed

by adding an additional step to the existing

form action referred to as REPOST (updated

code required on form)


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Why/when to integrate forms?

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Use cases where a REPOST integration isrecommended:

Where data needs to be pre- or post-processed

by a third party system

Form data processed by multiple systems uponsubmission trial key, password generation, data

verification

Login credentials/passwords

Financial information (credit card number)


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How to integrate forms?

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Two methods:Automatic use the Integrate function from

Forms Overview.

Manual create the form in the traditional

method, add fields and be sure to enter the

HTML name for each field.


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How to integrate forms? Automatic

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Prerequisites:Existing web form must have an HTML name

All fields must have a unique HTML name

Four steps:Specify the URL where form is located

Select the form and form fields to be replicated

Update the existing form to POST to the newlycreated Eloqua form

Review & Test


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Example

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Seeing is believing: walk-through ofintegrating a form


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Questions?

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