You publish a package to make the metadata available to your users. You create packages based on your user groups. Packages must contain all the information that a specific user or group of users needs to create reports.
We recommend that you do the following:
 | verify the model and repair any problems |
| | analyze the model for potential modeling issues that you
should examine before publishing the metadata |
| | set security to restrict access to metadata and data across
Cognos 8 products |
| | specify the languages published with each package |
| | create or modify a package |
| | publish the package |
In addition, you have the option to externalize query
subjects and dimensions to convert them to formats that you can
use in Transformer or other applications 
.
If you have published packages, you verify them and repair any
problems .
Note: Externalizing queries will not be supported in future releases of C8 Business Intelligence Transformer.
