# How to Create a GA4 Custom Event

## Before you proceed, you will have to have completed the following: 

* Create your GA4 Account
* Create a web data stream
* Delivery of the ID to the DoctorLogic support team via email 

### Instructions: 

1. Select "Events" from the lefthand side menu
2. Click the blue "Create Event" button
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3. Fill in your Custom Event Name
   1. Ex: Contact Form Submission
4. Add a name, parameters, a trigger, and custom dimensions.&#x20;

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   **Click Create!**

### How to test your event:

* Visit your website
* Replicate the custom event you have provisioned&#x20;
* In GA4, go to Reports > Real Time
  * Verify that you see your custom event was triggered!


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