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description: Create shape layers that include territory model details from the alignments you create in Territory Planning.
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# Publish Alignments to Salesforce Maps

Create shape layers that include territory model details from the alignments you create in Territory Planning.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.territory_planning_api_access.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Web Services API enabled</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d19813e77 ">To publish alignments:</td>

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              <p>Sales Planning Ops Analyst permission set</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p>Query for Datapipelines User for Sales Planning permission set</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">SF Maps Territory Planning for Sales Planning permission set</p>
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Salesforce Maps works with providers, such as the US government, which supply data for your shape layers. Periodically, these providers update their data, which means that your shape layers reflect those updates whereas your previously created datasets in Territory Planning don’t. Publishing alignments based on datasets that contain legacy boundaries can result in shape layers appearing in a way you don’t expect. See [Shape Layers and Data Source Updates](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=salesforce_maps_setup_shape_layers_data_source_updates.htm&language=en_US).

1. From the map, click **Publish**.
    
    ![Publish option](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/salesforce_maps_publish_1.png)
2. Select **Salesforce Maps**, and click **Next**.
    
    ![Publish to maps](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/salesforce_maps_publish_to_maps.png)
3. Select the scope of what to publish.
    
    ![Publish options for Salesforce Maps](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/salesforce_maps_publish_to_maps_options.png)
    
     
    | For Example, to Publish... | Select... |
    | --- | --- |
    | The entire alignment when you create hierarchies for the first time or transition to a new planning model | **Alignment** |
    | Your current focus when you change one area and want to publish those changes | **Focus** |
    
    If you’re publishing assignment rules for each shape layer, confirm that all areas within the alignment or focus include area owners.
4. Select the level to publish. Children of the selected level are published along with the level. For example, your hierarchy is **Region** | **District** | **Territory**. When you publish a district, you also publish its territories.
5. Select the method you want to use to publish.
6. Select the folder where you want to publish the alignment as a shape layer. Each territory is created as it’s own shape in Salesforce Maps.
7. To create an auto assignment rule for every territory in your publish scope, select **Publish an auto assignment rule for each shape layer**.
8. Click **Publish**.