# Publish a forecast in Connect Customer
When you publish a forecast, you make it visible to other users, such as capacity planners and schedulers, so that they can use the forecasts for capacity planning and scheduling.
**Important**
Connect Customer retains only the last published forecast. We strongly advise you to download the last published forecast before publishing a new one because the last forecast will be permanently replaced. For instructions, see [Download last published forecast](#download-last-publish-forecast).
1. Log in to the Connect Customer admin website with an account that has security profile permissions for **Analytics and Optimization**, **Forecasting - Publish**.
For more information, see [Assign permissions](required-optimization-permissions.md).
1. On the Connect Customer navigation menu, select **Analytics and optimization**, **Forecasting**.
1. On the **Forecasts** tab, choose the forecast.
1. Choose **Actions**, **Publish forecast**.
1. Choose the forecasts.
The status is **Complete** for successfully published forecasts. When publish fails, the status is **Publish failed**.
## Download the last published forecast
1. Log in to the Connect Customer admin website with an account that has security profile permissions for **Analytics**, **Forecasting - Edit**.
For more information, see [Assign permissions](required-optimization-permissions.md).
1. On the Connect Customer navigation menu, select **Analytics and optimization**, **Forecasting**.
1. On the **Forecasts** tab, choose the forecast.
1. Choose **Actions**, **Download last published forecast**.
1. We recommend choosing **click here** as shown in the following image. This enables you to specify the name of the downloaded file and the location. Otherwise, the file is saved to your **Downloads** folder and its name is a generated number.
