Start Product Designer in a single-user configuration
About this task
If you are running Product Designer on your own computer in a single-user configuration, you must start it before accessing it from a web browser.
You can run a single-user instance of Product Designer with default settings.
Note: 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 your changes in the active change list until you commit
them, after you log in again, none of your work is lost.
Procedure
- Navigate to the productdesigner/bin directory of your PolicyCenter development instance.
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Run launchPD.bat.
Wait while 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.
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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 users, remove users, and designate users as administrators, see Managing users on Product Designer Users page.