Is there a way to count how many times a document has been accessed using Alteryx?

[MattDuncan]

Would like to be able to use this to identify key documents in a drive, looking at the directory tool and I can't see a way for this to be done?

Any suggestions? 

Thanks 

[NickC · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Windows only registers the last time & date a file has been access, no way of knowing how many times it was opened since it was created there. The last read date-time and the creation date-time can be read in using the directory tool.  It is, however, theoretically possible to make a script/program to count how many times specific files has been opened. I suppose some kind of PC monitoring program would be able to do the trick, then you can read that information into Alteryx.