Package Publishing

The following activities are performed in order to publish a package:

1. Entries are inserted into the package.
2. The transport for delivering the package to the consumer is defined.
3. Other properties are defined that are specific to the transport or the rendering of the package.
4. The package is published.

The following scenarios depict how the package publishing method can depend on your role in the business enterprise or your experience as a programmer:

If you are a publisher who is a...	then you might...
novice user or someone who prefers to use a GUI	publish by using the SAS Publisher GUI.
SAS programmer	publish programmatically by using the Publish Package CALL routines.
programmer who uses a language other than SAS	publish by writing a third-party client application.