What is the Data Dictionary?

The PolicyCenter Data Dictionary documents all the entities and typelists in your PolicyCenter installation. Provided that you regenerate it following any customizations to the data model, the dictionary documents both the base PolicyCenter data model and your extensions to it. Using the Data Dictionary, you can view information about each entity, such as fields and attributes on it.

You must manually generate the Data Dictionary after you install Guidewire PolicyCenter. Guidewire strongly recommends that you perform this task as part of the installation process. Also, as you extend the data model, it is important that you regenerate the Data Dictionary as needed in order to view your extensions to the data model.

To generate the PolicyCenter Data Dictionary, run the following command from the PolicyCenter directory:

gwb genDataDictionary

PolicyCenter stores the current version of the Data Dictionary in the following directory:

PolicyCenter/build/dictionary/data/

To view the Data Dictionary, open the following file:

PolicyCenter/build/dictionary/data/index.html

As an option, you can generate the Data Dictionary in XML format with associated XSD files. Use the generated XML and XSD files to import the Data Dictionary into third-party database design tools.