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Install IBM Process Designer

Process Designer runs only on Windows. If IBM Process Designer for authoring processes was not installed when 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.

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

Procedure

1. Open the 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.

   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 to install to your own user name without administrative privileges, install using the nonadmin command.

   Default location (C:\IBM\ProcessDesigner\v8.0)

   • 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.

What to do next

To access the shortcut, click Start > IBM Process Designer Edition > Process Designer.

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