Track open/download event for documents in SharePoint 2016 on-prem

Question

Hi,

When a user is opening or downloading a file in SharePoint 2016 on-prem, is it then possible to track that from Javascript, web part or other techniques?

Without using OOB Audit functionallity.

We want to write data to a database from server side when opening/downloading.

Answer 1

Hi @Henrik Ravn,

To do a specific set of action when something changed on SharePoint components like lists, libraries or even content types, you can create Event Receivers. Event Receiver is a feature in SharePoint to handle events that are triggered when an action happened on SharePoint objects.

Here is the document for more details

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/event-receiver-and-list-event-receiver-sharepoint-add-in

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