Action won't record new text

Hi,
I am trying to record an action in Illustrator, and most steps work, except when I decide to create a new text layer, I select the type tool, type something into my document, and select another tool to complete the operation, nothing shows up in the action panel, it's as if Illustrator didn't see it. It works fine in Photoshop though. Anyone has an idea of why ?
Thank you very much for your help !
edit : could it be a bug of my version or is this function simply not supported in Illustrator ?

Thank you Kurt Gold for your reply.
Basically, the thing is : I have a lot of images that I want to add a text to (a different text everytime, so I want the program to ask me what text it should be for that specific image), and then I need to save them as pdf with trim marks for offset printing. I used to add the text on photoshop with an action that would ask me what text I wanted, then export all the psd files, open them in illustrator and save them in pdf with the trim marks from illustrator (as photoshop doesn't have the option for trim marks). But now I am trying to do everything in Illustrator as it would be much simpler. But I am stuck with that problem that Illustrator doesn't want to record a new text typed into the image.
any suggestion ?

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