# Creating a Publisher

Exporting Data Using Publish and Subscribe: To use Publish and Subscribe to export data from your model to another application or model, you will need to do the following.

- Select one or more variables on a Table Pad page (see Chapter 6 for details on defining and formatting tables) - the Table is the only locus in the software for exporting via a link. Run the model.

- Click on the column header to select the column of data to be exported (hold down the shift key to select multiple contiguous columns or the command key to select noncontiguous columns) as illustrated in Figure 8-5.

Figure 8-5 Selecting Table Variables for Publishing

- Choose Create Publisher... from the Edit menu. When you do, a dialog like the one shown in Figure 8-6 will appear. The operations of the dialog are outlined there.

Figure 8-6 Create Publisher Dialog

Once the edition is created, a border will be drawn around all rows/columns which contain the link to the edition. This thickly-outlined rectangle "marks" a Publisher, as illustrated in Figure 8-7. Subsequently, any time that you click on one of these variables on the table, the border will reappear - indicating that it is a publisher.

The icon that will appear on your desktop to represent an edition is shown in Figure 8-7, as well. The icon will sport the name of the Edition that you provided in the Create Publisher... dialog.

Figure 8-7 Identification of Publishers -- Icon for Editions

Publisher Options... under the Edit menu enables you to configure the way in which publishing occurs in your model. [You also can produce this dialog by double-clicking within the publisher locus.] Figure 8-8 details the operations of the associated dialog.

Figure 8-8 Publisher Options Dialog