Importing custom zone data files

You can create your own zone data files, in CSV format. The import tool uses configuration information from zone-config.xml files for specific countries to determine which data fields to import and what each field represents for each country. PolicyCenter stores the zone-config.xml files for base-configuration countries in country-specific folders. Navigate to the following location in the Studio Project window to view these files.

configuration > config > geodata

For example, Guidewire provides zone configuration data for France in file zone-config.xml in the following location:

configuration > config > geodata > FR

Each country-specific zone-config.xml file must have a single top-level <Zones> element for that country. Underneath each <Zones> element are <Zone> elements that define the zone fields to import from zone data files for that country. For each field, the fileColumn attribute indicates the position of the field within lines of the files.

The following example XML code from a zone-config.xml file defines the fields to import from zone data files for the United States. The example code specifies for United States zone data files that the third field in the comma-separated values of each line of corresponds to a city.

<Zones countryCode="US">
  ...
  <Zone code="city" fileColumn="3" granularity="2">
  ...