# Recording a single action interaction event
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After you create an Action interactions dataset, you are ready to record action interaction events with the [PutActionInteractions](API_UBS_PutActionInteractions.md) operation. The following code shows a `PutActionInteractions` operation that passes a TAKEN event. You might record this event when you show a user recommendations from Amazon Personalize and they take an action, such as applying for your credit card. 

The `actionInteractions` is an array of ActionInteraction objects. The `trackingId` comes from the event tracker Amazon Personalize created when you created your Action interactions dataset. For more information, see [Finding the ID of your action interaction event tracker](action-interaction-tracker-id.md). 

Your application generates a unique `sessionId` when a user first visits your website or uses your application. You must use the same `sessionId` in all events throughout the session. Amazon Personalize uses the `sessionId` to associate events with the user before they log in (is anonymous). For more information, see [Recording events for anonymous users](recording-events.md#recording-anonymous-user-events).

The `userId`, `actionId`, and `sentAt` parameters map to the USER\$1ID, ACTION\$1ID, EVENT\$1TYPE, and TIMESTAMP fields of the Action interactions dataset.

**Corresponding Action interactions dataset**

```
USER_ID, ACTION_ID, TIMESTAMP, EVENT_TYPE
user123, action-xyz, 1543631760, TAKEN
```

**Code example**

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#### [ AWS CLI ]

```
aws personalize-events put-action-interactions \
--tracking-id 12345678-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx \
--action-interactions '[{
  "userId": "user123",
  "sessionId": "abcdefg",
  "timestamp": 1543631760,
  "eventType": "TAKEN",
  "actionId": "action-xyz"}]'
```

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#### [ SDK for Python (Boto3) ]

```
import boto3

personalize_events = boto3.client(service_name='personalize-events')

response = personalize_events.put_action_interactions(
  trackingId='12345678-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx',
  actionInteractions=[{
    'userId': 'user123',
    'sessionId': 'abcdefg',
    'timestamp': 1543631760,
    'eventType': 'Taken',
    'actionId': 'action-xyz'
  }]
)
```

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