# How to track clicks
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [November 16, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518 "2020-11-16T21:11:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Petr\_Shemyagin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Petr_Shemyagin)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/1 "2020-11-16T21:11:24Z")
Hey there!
I am trying to find a way on how to track how much clicks I get on Phone action button and Email action button.
If I understand it correctly google analytics do not show me this. I use url shorteners to track the number of clicks on urls, but how can I do something similar with the Phone and Email actions?
I have found a workaround with new glide actions, just using increment +1 every time the buttons are clicked. But this will count ALL clicks, not only unique.
Will be really grateful for any ideas!
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### Author:  [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/2 "2020-11-16T21:23:01Z")
## Hooray!
That can be done with the new ✨ Compound Actions ✨.
Here’s what you gotta do. First, click the action dropdown and select ‘Create new action’. Next, you can make it so that after it’s done calling or sending an email, it’ll increment a column.
I suggest you get more familiarized with compound actions as they can come in very handy!!
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### Author:  [@Petr\_Shemyagin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Petr_Shemyagin)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/3 "2020-11-16T21:37:32Z")
Hey @Pablo_books!
Yes, I know about this variant, I described it in the first message. But the problem here is that I will not know unique clicks. This will calculate ALL the clicks. For example, if I have 10 clicks I will not be able to understand where these were 10 users clicked once or only one clicked 10 times😂
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### Author:  [@Pablo\_books](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Pablo_books)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/4 "2020-11-16T21:39:24Z")
Ah, I understand now.
You could make it increment click count AND user-specific click count. If user-specific click count is 1, then do not show the button to email or call.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/5 "2020-11-16T22:48:34Z")
Probably you can have a unique emails fields and a unique email helper to help with this case.
Unique email helper will be a template column that concatenates your unique email field with the currently signed in user.
The action should be if user’s signed in email is not included in unique emails, then set the column helper to the column unique emails, else you just increase the view count.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Alderman](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Alderman)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/6 "2020-11-17T13:46:23Z")
> [@Petr\_Shemyagin](#):
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> But this will count ALL clicks, not only unique.
I saw Robert share a video on this. Have your seen this?
> [@new Actions! zapzapzap](https://community.glideapps.com/t/actions/18026/8):
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> Whipped this up in 5 minutes: Unique View Counter!
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/7 "2020-11-17T13:57:36Z")
Thanks for sharing @Darren_Alderman—you beat me to the punch!
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### Author:  [@Petr\_Shemyagin](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Petr_Shemyagin)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/8 "2020-11-17T14:45:04Z")
Thank you @Pablo_books, @Darren_Alderman, @Robert_Petitto and @ThinhDinh!
I think I will use the actions for this. The only problem that I’ve forgotten to tell in the initial message is that the app is public, so, unique counter will work only until a user close the app 😁
But it’s still the best of possible options I suppose, thanks!
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### Author:  [@StephM](https://community.glideapps.com/u/StephM)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-track-clicks/18518/9 "2021-03-10T12:42:44Z")
> [@Petr\_Shemyagin](#):
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> I use url shorteners to track the number of clicks on urls
What tool do you use to track outbound link clicks? My understanding is GTM is not supported by Glide - would love to hear of workarounds, if any. Thanks!