Installing IBM Process Designer

Process Designer runs only on Windows. If IBM® Process Designer for authoring processes was not installed when you installed the Process Center, you can download and install Process Designer from the Process Center console. Using Installation Manager to install Process Designer is not supported.

About this task

Process Designer, Process Center, and each runtime environment must be running the same version of IBM Business Process Manager.

Procedure

  1. Open Process Center.
  2. Click the IBM Process Designer Download option. When you are prompted, save the IBM Process Designer.zip file to your file system. This file contains everything that you need to install and run Process Designer. Depending on your network connection, the download may take several minutes to complete.
  3. Extract the contents of the IBM Process Designer.zip file to a temporary directory on your file system.
  4. Open a command window and change to the directory where you extracted the contents of the IBM Process Designer.zip file.
    Important: If you are running Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008, start your command prompt by right-clicking and selecting Run as administrator.
  5. Run one of the following commands to install Process Designer. If you are in the Administrators group on Windows, you can install using the admin command. If you are not an administrative user, or if you want to install to your own user name without administrative privileges, install using the nonadmin command.
    Default location (C:\IBM\ProcessDesigner\v8.5)
    • installProcessDesigner_admin.bat
    • installProcessDesigner_nonadmin.bat
    Different location
    • installProcessDesigner_admin.bat installLocation
    • installProcessDesigner_nonadmin.bat installLocation
    If the location has spaces in the directory name, put the whole location in quotation marks.
    The following examples show how to install to a different location.
    • installProcessDesigner_admin.bat D:\IBM\PD
    • installProcessDesigner_admin.bat "D:\Process Designer\"

Results

Installation messages are recorded in the file %TEMP%\IBMProcessDesignerInstall.log, where the %TEMP% variable is typically set to C:\Documents and Settings\current_user_name\Local Settings\Temp.
Note: Use the suppressRedirectUrlPasswd option to suppress the inclusion of the user password in the URLs that Process Designer opens. See Security configuration properties.

What to do next

To access the shortcut, click Start > IBM Process Designer Edition > Process Designer.
If you are accessing the IBM BPM system from Process Designer directly without an intermediary web server, and you are using the default generated SSL certificates in IBM BPM, you may receive the following security alerts when opening Process Designer.
  • The SSL certificate does not have revocation information, which may lead to warnings in some versions of Internet Explorer. To resolve this issue, disable the certificate revocation in Internet Explorer:
    1. Go to Internet Explorer > Tools > Internet options.
    2. Click the Advanced tab.
    3. From the Security section, deselect Check for server certificate revocation.
    4. Restart Internet Explorer and Process Designer.
  • The signer certificate is not trusted by the browser. To resolve this issue, install the signer certificate into your Windows trust store.
    Note: Make sure that you select the top level signer certificate from the certification tree.
We generally do not recommend disabling certificate revocation checks, but it may be necessary when setting up your IBM BPM system or the web server in front of it with certificates from you corporate certificate authority.