Timer Trigger from Notifications

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Hey guys, first time asking questions on here, so forgive me if I’m doing something wrong. Relatively new to home assistant so not sure if this is possible, but I was creating a notification (IOS) as a result of an automation and wanted to make one of the dropdown options a trigger to start a timer I created using helpers. When I put the yaml code below into the developer options - call service, it works and starts the timer but then I put it into the notification yaml, the notification goes through, but when I select that option on my phone the timer does not start. Any ideas on why this is happening?

service: timer.start
target:
entity_id: timer.test

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As stated in the documentation, the action in an actionable notification is not an action like the ones in automations. It is just a name. When you pick the option in the notification then Home Assistant fires an event, and puts the name in it. So you need a separate automation that triggers on the event and checks for the name you gave.