Make changes to availability in Product Designer

Before you begin

Enable configuration parameter for reloading availability

About this task

Make changes to lookup tables, availability scripts, and grandfathering in Product Designer. This section provides a few example changes to availability data in the personal auto line.

Note: Changes in Product Designer to availability are not uploaded to PolicyCenter. The following steps show how to upload changes to PolicyCenter.

Procedure

  1. In Product Designer, open Products > Personal Auto.
  2. Under Go to, click the Availability link.
  3. Click Add. Specify the following properties:

    Property

    Value

    StartEffectiveDate

    The current date

    Availability

    Unavailable

    State

    Colorado
  4. In the Changes page, you can view you change. Click Commit All changes.
  5. In a file browser, navigate to the directory where the workspace is saving changes. In the base configuration, this directory is: 
    PolicyCenter_Installation/modules/configuration/config/resources/productmodel/
  6. Navigate to products/PersonalAuto/jurisdictions/CO.

    Notice that the modification date of PersonalAuto-lookups.xml shows that this file has just been modified.

  7. Copy the contents of productmodel directory contents to the folder defined by ExternalProductModelDirectory.
  8. Upload these changes to PolicyCenter. See Reload Availability screen.
  9. Start a new Personal Auto submission.
  10. Set the Default Base State to Colorado.
    Personal Auto is not available.

What to do next

Copy changes to external product model directory

See also