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Share a Session for review

This tutorial continues from the Quickstart. You have a Session with at least one transcribed item. Now you’ll send that Session to someone who doesn’t have a VoiceQC account — a director, a client, an external reviewer — with a magic link they can open in any browser.

By the end you’ll have:

  • A Share with an expiration and an auto-generated password.
  • The link URL and password captured so you can hand them off.
  • A live view of what the recipient sees, opened in another browser window.

Before you start

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A Session worth sharing

Any Session with at least one transcribed item is fine. Properties and Auto-rule results are visible to the recipient too.

A second browser (or incognito window)

You’ll open the recipient’s view in a window where you’re not signed in to VoiceQC, so you can see exactly what they see.

Create the Share

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  1. Open the Session you want to share.

  2. Click the Share button in the Session toolbar (share icon + the word “Share”).

  3. The Share Management dialog opens on the Create New Share tab.

  4. Set Expiration Period — how many days the link works. Must be between 7 and 90; the default is your account’s setting. For this tutorial, pick something short like 7 days.

  5. Choose Auto-generate password under Password Protection. (We’ll cover the no-password and custom-password options at the end.)

  6. (Optional) Add a Description — an internal note, only visible to you and your teammates with VoiceQC accounts. Try "Tutorial test share".

  7. Click Create Share.

Capture the password

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Because you chose Auto-generate password, VoiceQC immediately shows you the password in a modal.

  1. Copy the password to your clipboard or paste it somewhere you’ll see in a moment.

  2. Close the password modal.

  3. The dialog switches automatically to the Manage Existing Shares tab. Your new Share appears as a row with Active status (green badge).

  4. Click Copy in the new Share’s row to copy its URL.

You now have everything you need to hand off to the recipient: the URL and the password.

Open the recipient’s view

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To see what the recipient gets, open the link as if you weren’t signed in.

  1. Open a second browser, or an incognito/private window in your current browser.

  2. Paste the URL from your clipboard into the address bar and press Enter.

  3. You’ll be prompted for the password. Paste the password you captured and submit.

  4. The guest view loads. It shows:

    • The same Session items table you see, but read-only.
    • The Play button on each item — guests can listen.
    • Each item’s transcription and any Properties you’ve applied.
    • No upload zone, no Property editing, no way to navigate to other Sessions or sign up.

Click around. Try to upload a file (you can’t). Try to add a Property (you can’t). This is exactly what your reviewer sees.

What did you just do?

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  • Created a time-limited, password-protected Share of one Session.
  • Captured the auto-generated password before it disappeared.
  • Copied the URL from the Manage Existing Shares tab.
  • Opened the same link in a signed-out browser and confirmed the recipient gets a read-only view.

Three password modes — when to use each

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When you created the Share you picked Auto-generate password. The other two options:

ModeWhen to use
Auto-generate passwordThe default for any Share outside your team. Strong, random, you copy and send.
Custom passwordWhen the recipient has a shared password convention with you (“VoiceQC reviews use the year + project code”).
No passwordInternal links you can post in a Slack channel where the audience is trusted. Anyone with the URL can view.

You can’t change a Share’s password after creation. To rotate, delete the Share and create a new one — see Manage Shares.

Where to next

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Manage Shares you've already created

The Manage Shares how-to covers extending expiration, revoking, and the full list view.