display last opened Records in a read-only grid

Question

hello 
 I'm on 25.1 and I have the below Use Case: 
 I need to display on a read-only grid a short list (5 or 10 items at least) of last opened Record of a given Record Type. 
 basically I need to store on a table the interactions over a Record List (every time a user clicks on a Record Link) in order to display the "last opened records" as a table 
 I was thinking on replacing the Record Link with a startProcessLink which stores this transaction on a table (recordId, user, timestamp) and then open the Record Summary as a task, but this has several disadvantages: 
 - the record page has several tabs (summary, attachments, other related data ....) which might requires additional effort to refactor 
 - transforming the record interaction into processes might have performance issues 
 any thoughts/suggestion about how to deal with this? 
 thanks

Dai Williams · Answer

Similar to what Stefan has said, this requirement is difficult to deliver. Log files are accessible as Stefan has pointed out that may provide some context but having has to consider requirements like this in the past they may not provide what you require. 
 As a suggestion, consider that when the record page loads, display on a certain % of the record data. To do more with the record, they would need to click a record action, which can then invoke the process to write the data to a table or column on the record, to further interact with the record, displaying the remaining data and then the other actions. 
 Please note, this will open a box of further requirements technically and on the business side, and is something I would avoid, but at least provides an option to proceed further if you really have to.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

This is possible using a Stored Procedure with the right design pattern, and otherwise-OOTB functionality. It's not an "officially supported" behavior though, but it works fine.