Add new coverage term patterns

About this task

When adding new coverage term patterns:

  • The choices of coverage term type and options (if relevant) are immediate and apparent. These choices control the look of the widget on the interface and the options that appear in a list.
  • The choice of coverage term model type is neither immediate nor apparent. The behavior of a coverage term in the interface is the same regardless of the model type. Instead, the model type has implications when passed to the rating engine, and when you import a policy from a legacy policy system into PolicyCenter. Therefore, even though it has no impact on configuration behavior, the choice of model type is as important as the choice of coverage term type.

The coverage input widget includes one embedded coverage term input for each coverage term associated with the coverage. Therefore, in most cases you need make no additional PCF configuration to render coverage terms.

Use Product Designer to add a new coverage term pattern.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation panel, expand the tree to locate the coverage pattern to which to add the new coverage term.
  2. Select the coverage pattern to open the Coverage home page
  3. Under Go to, click Terms to display the Coverage Terms page.
  4. Click Add Term to display the Add Term dialog box.

    The following table describes the fields in the dialog.

    Field

    Description

    Code

    Coverage term code, which must begin with a letter and be composed only of letters, numbers, and underscores. Established when you add a new term and thereafter cannot be changed.

    Name

    Name of the coverage term as it appears in PolicyCenter.

    Type

    Type of coverage term, one of Direct, Option, Package, Typekey, or Generic. See Coverage term types for descriptions of each type.

    Typelist

    Appears only if the Type is Typekey.

    Typelist from in which the term type is defined.

    Required

    Whether the coverage requires this coverage term. If selected, PolicyCenter displays an error if you do not supply a value for the coverage term.

    Column

    Database table column to use for the coverage term.
    Important: Guidewire provides availability logic and validation for Money value types in Direct, Option, and Package term types, and therefore recommends that you use these term times for monetary values. If you instead choose to use a Typelist to hold monetary values, you must provide all needed implementation and validation required to handle multiple currencies.