Run a single-user instance of Product Designer

About this task

Developers and integration architects typically run Product Designer and Guidewire Studio side-by-side on a single computer that also has a development instance of PolicyCenter. In this scenario, you can simultaneously run both Studio and Product Designer to perform all of the tasks needed to define a line of business.

To run a single-user instance of Product Designer on the same computer as your PolicyCenter development instance, no installation is needed. Product Designer is packaged with the PolicyCenter distribution image and can be run immediately after installing PolicyCenter.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the productdesigner/bin directory of your PolicyCenter development instance.
  2. Run launchPD.bat.
    The built-in application server starts in a command window. You must keep this command window open while using Product Designer. Closing the window stops the application server. After the startup script starts the built-in application server, Product Designer opens in your default web browser and displays the Login page.
  3. Enter your user name and password, and then click Log In to display the Product Designer home page.

    Guidewire provides a default administrative user named su with the default password gwgw. Use this account initially to access Product Designer. Guidewire recommends for security reasons that you create a new administrative user and delete the default user. To add and remove users, and designate users as administrators, see Managing users on Product Designer Users page.

Results

Your Product Designer session automatically terminates after 120 minutes of inactivity. This timeout is not configurable when Product Designer is running as a single-user standalone instance. However, because Product Designer continually maintains all of your changes in the active change list until you commit them, after logging in again, none of your work is lost.