Filament: Override Page Render to Log User Activity

In Filament application, you may need to log some activities when rendering the page. Let's see how to do it using a spatie/laravel-activitylog package.

You can overwrite a render() on any of the Filament Pages to add custom logic.

Just add your logic, and then call parent::render() at the end.

For example, you want to log that the User visited the View page of another user.

In this example, we log activity, set the performedOn($this->record) to the current record, and add a custom log message.

app/Filament/Resources/UserResource/ViewUser.php:

use Illuminate\View\View;
use App\Filament\Resources\UserResource;
use Filament\Actions;
use Filament\Resources\Pages\ViewRecord;
 
class ViewUser extends ViewRecord
{
    protected static string $resource = UserResource::class;
 
    protected function getHeaderActions(): array
    {
        return [
            Actions\EditAction::make(),
        ];
    }
 
    public function render(): View 
    {
        activity()
            ->causedBy(auth()->user())
            ->performedOn($this->record)
            ->event('view')
            ->log('User '. auth()->user()->name . ' viewed a user ' . $this->record->name);
 
        return parent::render();
    } 
}

This behavior isn't specific to Resource pages in app/Filament/Resources. You can also override render() in this way on other custom pages.