Configuring jurisdiction information
Guidewire applications divide jurisdictions into several areas:
- National jurisdictions – Japan or France, for example
- State or province jurisdictions – Idaho, U.S.A, or, Ontario, Canada, for example
- Other jurisdictions – Other local regulatory jurisdictions at a level below the country level, such as Berlin, Germany
In the base configuration, Guidewire provides a Jurisdiction typelist
that contains a set of pre-defined jurisdictions. This typelist is used by a number of
PCF files to display a list of states or provinces, as well as jurisdictions that are
not states or provinces.
Many PolicyCenter fields that appear to reference a state actually reference a jurisdiction instead. For example:
TaxLocation.StateTaxLocationSearchCriteria.StateTerritoryLookupCriteria.State