This is easy to do with a
Service Worker. You can arrange for a
Service Worker to detect when a particular pattern of URL is requested and take the appropriate action. In the case of
Save as spreadsheet a URL is fetched that has the following query string:
?a=q&qid=1
&dlta=xs~Although a Service Worker has the ability to
(1) modify or
(2) substitute either the
request or
response in this case we will do neither and simply make a supplemental call to
API_AddRecord recording the
dbid and
qid to a logging table. It is a ridiculously simple script to do what you ask.
There seems to be a lot of
confusion,
fear and
loathing over the role of using
Service Workers with QuickBase. The best minds in the industry have contributed to the development of the
Service Workers API and they are
safe to use and
extremely useful. Developers are simply unaccustomed to using
Service Workers as the capability has never existed before so they have no similar experience to draw on.
All browsers have support for the
Service Worker API at this point (Apple is the last holdout but has support in Safari 11.1) and the
Service Worker API has been adopted by several cloud service companies as part of their
Edge Computing initiatives. This includes
Cloudflare where they have adopted the
Service Worker API and named it
CloudFlare Worker which operate at the edge.
Cloudflare Workers Run code at the edge, deliver powerful web extensibilityhttps://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-workers/
