Don't understand how to trigger double opt-in email...

[rchrdnsh]

So I have the 'create contact' set up using the track event api, where i create a new unsubscribed contact. I want to now create the next part of the flow where a transaction email is sent as soon as the user hits the subscribe button button...

soooooo, I am in the dashboard and I do not see any event entitled 'subscribed' or anything else, so I don't know what to do to trigger the transactional email to send to the user...I also tried to make a template for the confirmation email but i was not allowed to use the URL you suggest for email confirmation:

https://app.useplunk.com/subscribe/{{plunk_id}}

I am told when trying to make a template email for this that it does not work and is an invalid link.

The UI in the Plunk app looks like this, and I don't see the "subscribed" event as a trigger:

My desire is for the new contact to fill out the contact form, then for them to get an email to confirm their email address, then for them to click the link and confirm their address...but from the directions I am rather confused.

Also, many times in the UI text is white, rather than black, so I cannot see it, so I don't really know what's there...it's rather frustrating, as it happens in the email template when I paste in an email I have created in html (using svelte) and also in the subject field for a new campaign as well.

[rchrdnsh]

hmmmm...I think I'm starting to understand better...the thing I was missing is that the "event" is a name that i create...I saw this is the docs for the api for tracking:

{
    "success": true,
    "contact": "80d74d13-16eb-48c5-bc2b-aae6fd5865cc",
    "event":  "541fb6c3-3299-429b-980d-82ca5907abeb",
    "timestamp": "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

and I thought that the event was an id that is generated, not a name I create...

This page helped out in that understanding:

Tracking events
Events are the actions that your users take on your website or app. You track events by calling the [Plunk API](https://docs.useplunk.com/api-reference/actions/track).

An example of an event is new-project, which you might want to track when a user creates a new project. You would send it to Plunk like this:


await fetch('https://api.useplunk.com/v1/track', {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": "Bearer <API_KEY>"
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
        "event": "new-project",
        "email": "hello@useplunk.com"
    })
});
Events will automatically show up in the Plunk dashboard, as well as newly created contacts.

...I do find this confusing, however...that the event could be a name, or an id...maybe having two keys, event_name and event_id, might be a way of creating disambiguation.

In any case, i think it is working now...but I will leave this open until i know that whole flow is solid, and maybe there are other ideas I could add...