Changes to Guidewire Studio

This topic describes the changes that Guidewire has made to PolicyCenter Studio in version 8.0.0.

Studio now built on IntelliJ IDEA community edition

Guidewire Studio has been completely redeveloped as extensions to the popular IntelliJ IDEA development environment. While many PolicyCenter configuration editors will be familiar, navigating Studio will be a new experience. You can learn more about using IntelliJ IDEA at: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation

Gosu tester

The Gosu Tester is now called the Gosu Scratchpad.

Display keys editor

The Display Keys editor now provides a view of the display keys in a text format. To modify display keys, you now make your changes directly to the text of the display.properties file. For more information, see Using the Display Keys editor.

Studio features that are no longer available

The following Studio features are no longer available:

  • Constraining the debugger to intercept calls only from a particular user.
  • “Debug and break” to have the debugger automatically stop at the first line of Gosu code executed.
  • Logging Studio diagnostic information.
  • Localizing the Studio interface.
  • Product model editors
  • Script Parameters editor (you now edit the XML file directly).

Editing the product model

The product model editors have been removed from Guidewire Studio. You now use Product Designer to edit the PolicyCenter product model.

Product Designer is a web-based, multiuser tool included with PolicyCenter that provides easier access to product model editing for business analysts. To start Product Designer in single-user mode, go to the productdesigner/bin folder of your PolicyCenter installation directory and run launchPD.bat.

For complete information on installing, using, and administering Product Designer, see the . For field-level information while editing the product model, click the Help button while viewing any page in Product Designer.