Google Analytics Tag Manager: {{event}} is missing in selection for rule

Question

I'm trying to create a click oder link click listener in the Google Analytics Tag Manager. In the guides and even the official manual I found that you setup a rule to active the Tracking of links getting clicked: Google Analytics support reference

In the rule you define that {{event}} equals gtm.linkClick (see outdated manual).

The thing is that I can't define {{event}}. It just doesn't appear in the select menu. It almost seems like a Google bug. Is there a new way how to do it?

Answer 1

In Google Tag Manager Console, whatever you see in curly braces, they are defined as macros

Curly Braces means Macros

If you don't see {{event}} in the list,

check if a Macro named event exist or not. If not create a Macro named event with type Custom Event

Hope this helps.