mixpanel.track send events without identification (doesn't use identify)

[rafmagana]

Say I have an user which visited /my_page, and then clicked something which I track in a controller:

In WhateverController#my_action:

mixpanel.append('name_tag', user_email)
mixpanel.append('identify', user_id)
mixpanel.track('My Event')

In the Mixpanel site I see:

Streams > Users > user_email > Page View > Viewing /my_page
Streams > Users > Guest #xxxx > My Event

Mixpanel instance has async and persiste = true, I'm using the Middleware which both options to true too.

If I manually track the event in the JS console it works, Mixpanel shows:

Streams > Users > user_email > My Event

Any idea? thanks in advance.

[rafmagana]

Just realized that's because mixpanel.track send the request directly to the API, and that I should have used mixpanel.append_track to track the event via Javascript, I still think there should be a way to send distinct_id and name_tag, check this out https://mixpanel.com/docs/api-documentation/http-specification-insert-data. name_tag can be set via mp_name_tag, but well, in the meantime I'm going to use mixpanel.append_track, thanks!

[zevarito]

I am glad you figure it out. Closing this now.