SharePoint Online Audit - Read / View / Download?

Question

In SharePoint Online, there is this

Opened and downloaded documents, viewed items in lists, or viewed item properties (This event is not available for SharePoint Online sites)

Is there anyway to circumvent this? For example, a SharePoint List + Javascript on Page Layout that reads the ID and Title and store it for total # of clicks? This will probably affect loading of page / storage, but I can't think of anyway to do this currently.

Is there a better way to do it? I just want to know for example, most popular items in a Document Library or most popular items in the Pages Library.

Thank you!

Answer 1

You could write CSR - Client Side Rendering code and attach it with a JSlink on every View;

You can then capture each click on a link and write the Title to another SharePoint list (user is the default Created By field, timestamp is Created)