I have a document that will need to be posted on a website available for
users to download & change/approve.

The approval process will not make any changes at all to the document.

However, I do need to know they've opened the document.

Is there a way to get the name/machine/ip or something regarding who
opens a file and when they open it?

If so, I would like to do something like that, and either write it to
something in the spreadsheet or as an audit trail in a database.

If there's no way to do this, I am considering writing a small app that
requires them to sign in (something I can record) to a website as a way
of determining when a user has seen a document.

Any help/advice appreciated.

BC

Why not save your documents as HTML (as no editing is required), then just
record when then visit that page on your web server.

NickHK

"Blasting Cap" wrote in message
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I have a document that will need to be posted on a website available for
users to download & change/approve.

The approval process will not make any changes at all to the document.

However, I do need to know they've opened the document.

Is there a way to get the name/machine/ip or something regarding who
opens a file and when they open it?

If so, I would like to do something like that, and either write it to
something in the spreadsheet or as an audit trail in a database.

If there's no way to do this, I am considering writing a small app that
requires them to sign in (something I can record) to a website as a way
of determining when a user has seen a document.

Any help/advice appreciated.

BC