Need to share insights with stakeholders without giving them access to your whole workspace? Looppanel’s External Repository View is your new best friend.
This view gives non-research folks (PMs, designers, execs — you know the crew) a read-only, beautifully organized snapshot of your research — no login required, no hand-holding from you.
Let’s break it down.
🏁 What is the External View?
Think of it as the homepage for your research, customized for your company. It’s where stakeholders can:
Search for answers like “What do users say about pricing?”
See curated insights
Filter by your customized metadata labels
View insights without bothering you for access 🙃
You control what’s visible — they just get the good stuff.
🛠 How to Set It Up
Go to your Looppanel workspace
Pick a project (or individual insight) you want to share
Hit the Share icon → Select “Add to External Repository”
Voilà! It’s now part of the public-facing view at:
repository.looppanel.com/your-org
You can brand this with your company name, logo, and even a welcome message (like “Welcome to Acme's Research Repository 👋”).
🧠 What Stakeholders Can Do (and Can’t)
✅ They can:
Search using natural language or keywords
Browse Insights or Notes (your choice — default is Insights)
Filter by:
Project
Metadata Labels
Tags
Creator
Time (recency)
❌ They can’t:
Edit anything
Access raw interviews or sensitive notes (unless you add them)
🔖 How Metadata Labels Help
Metadata labels in Looppanel are structured tags you define ahead of time to help categorize insights across projects. Think of them like controlled vocabulary or standardized themes. While regular tags are freeform (great for fast, flexible labeling), metadata labels are more intentional — and especially useful in the External View.
Typically you want to align your metadata labels with the core product and user segments you care about.
🧩 Good Examples:
Feature areas:
Pricing,CMS,DashboardUser types:
Power Users,First-time Users,AdminsGeographies:
USA,Canada,Europe
Once you've set up and tagged files with these labels, users will be able to filter their search results to meet their needs. For example, they might search, "User pain points" and filter for "CMS" to see the issues related to that product area.
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