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title: "Share what you learned and what happens next"
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# Share what you learned and what happens next

Publish a reviewed Study follow-up, discovery or roadmap update for the intended community audience.



## Before you start

Use **What we learned** in portal administration. You need current authority for the update’s complete audience. A Study-linked follow-up also respects the underlying Study permissions.

There are two useful paths: complete a follow-up for a closed Study, or publish an independent discovery/roadmap update. The independent update does not fulfill a Study’s separate follow-up obligation.

## Publish a Study follow-up

1. Close collection in the Study when you have finished receiving responses.
2. Open **What we learned → Study follow-ups** in portal administration and select the Study.
3. Review its owner, audience and due date. Closing a distributed Study creates an owned follow-up due 14 days after closure.
4. Write what you learned, what is still uncertain and what happens next. A still-evaluating update is useful when you cannot yet make a decision.
5. Save and review the customer-facing version. Complete the explicit approval for the current content and audience, then select **Publish learning**.

Use a title participants can recognize from the research they joined. Summarize the result without exposing raw responses, other customers’ details, internal evidence links or private planning notes. A learning update is not a delivery commitment; state only the next step you can support.

![The Study learning preview with the original groups, customer-facing text and an unchecked approval for publication.](https://zentrik.ai/images/product/engagement/learning-approval-light.jpg)

Approve the exact update and links for the listed groups before publishing. Publication sends no email.

## Publish a discovery or roadmap update

Use the creation actions in **What we learned** for an independent learning or roadmap update. Write the customer-facing content in the autosaving editor, choose the audience and explicitly publish it.

This is suitable when the update did not come from one closed Study—for example, a pattern learned across conversations or a current product direction. Keep internal scoring and Evidence in Zentrik. Link to public information only when it helps the member.

Email approval remains separate. Publishing an update does not automatically contact every member or complete the follow-up records of other Studies.

## Check the member result

Open **What we learned** as an eligible member and inspect the published title, body and visible groups. Confirm that the intended Study’s follow-up is recorded as published. A saved draft or approved-but-unpublished revision is not a member-visible result.

If you later edit a published update or change its audience, review the current revision and permissions again. Reopening research and closing it later can affect its follow-up lifecycle; check the current Study follow-up record rather than assuming an earlier update covers the new work.

Continue with [participation reports](https://zentrik.ai/docs/product/engagement-reports) and the internal [Study findings guide](https://zentrik.ai/docs/product/review-study-findings).

![A published Study learning visible to the enrolled participant in What we learned.](https://zentrik.ai/images/product/engagement/member-learning-light.jpg)

Check the published update with a member identity. A saved draft or independent roadmap post does not complete another Study’s follow-up.

## Troubleshooting

### The update is saved but members cannot find it

Check that it is published, the explicit approval is for the current revision, and the member has access through the selected audience.

### An independent roadmap update did not close a Study follow-up

Independent updates and Study-linked follow-ups are separate records. Open the specific Study follow-up and publish its reviewed result.

## Related guides

- [Administer a Zentrik workspace safely](https://zentrik.ai/docs/product/workspace-administration)
- [Set up the Ideas Portal](https://zentrik.ai/docs/product/ideas-portal)
- [Invite people and manage access](https://zentrik.ai/docs/product/workspace-access)