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Event set management
Your Touchstone Re installation includes event set files for each peril and region licensed by your company.
Import event sets from ALERT website
The ALERT website is a Verisk-proprietary site. ALERT event sets are posted to the ALERT website as part of real-time updates for catastrophes around the world. Use the event sets to analyze risk on your portfolios.

Using Touchstone online Help
You can access the top-level or context-sensitive Touchstone online help from within the application or from the Client Portal. You can then search for content, bookmark pages, and generate output to other formats.
Import data from external sources
You can import exposure data, map layers, projects, and reinsurance packages from external sources into Touchstone databases.
Projects and exposure views
Projects are a useful way to organize your data. They contain exposure views that contain the data that you want to focus on.
Geospatial analysis
Geospatial analysis enables you to perform a deterministic risk analysis with your own view of risk on accumulations of property exposures and workers' compensation information in given areas exposed to natural and man-made catastrophes.
Exposure data validation
Verisk provides a reference containing information about Touchstone exposure data.
Data Quality analysis
The most effective way to assess and enhance portfolio-level or contract-level catastrophe exposure data is to use Touchstone's Data Quality diagnostics. These diagnostics enable you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the exposure data you are using for analyses and supplement that data when it is missing or weak.
Hazard analysis
Hazard analysis enable you to identify the relevant catastrophe hazards for locations in your exposure data.
About loss analyses
Touchstone enables you to model catastrophic (CAT) events to estimate property and workers' compensation losses.
Reinsurance
The Reinsurance Program Manager enables you to create, import, and manage reinsurance programs.
Touchstone data export types
Touchstone enables you to export different types of data.
Activity Monitor
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Managing data sources
Use Data Source Management to manage Touchstone databases.
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Use User Model Management to build custom non-Verisk models and seamlessly integrate them into Touchstone.
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- User administration
  User administration involves the management of users, roles, groups, and business units in Touchstone Re.
- Global defaults
  Business unit and system administrators can set and modify viewing and analysis defaults.
- Event set management
  Your Touchstone Re installation includes event set files for each peril and region licensed by your company.
  - User model management
    Use User Model Management to build custom non-Verisk models and seamlessly integrate them into Touchstone.
  - User Model Management pane
  - Create custom terrorism event sets
    You manage custom terrorism event sets through the event set management function in the Administration Console.
  - Modifying a custom event set
    Steps to modify a custom event set in Touchstone.
  - Import event sets from ALERT website
    The ALERT website is a Verisk-proprietary site. ALERT event sets are posted to the ALERT website as part of real-time updates for catastrophes around the world. Use the event sets to analyze risk on your portfolios.
  - Delete event sets
    Use caution when deleting event sets in Touchstone Re.
  - Reference: Event Set Management
- Loss defaults
  This function provides tools for administrators to set defaults for use during detailed loss analyses.
- License management
  Tools to manage Touchstone and Touchstone Re licensing.
- HPC resource management
  HPC Resource Management provides tools in Touchstone and Touchstone Re to configure HPC (High Performance Computing) resources.
- Server administration
  Touchstone and Touchstone Re server administrators can perform a suite of tasks.
- Data Quality (administration)
- Object management
  Object Management selections enable authorized users (system administrator or business unit Administrator) to manage a variety of items, such as users and templates.
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Reference: Common Help topics

Import event sets from ALERT website

The ALERT website is a Verisk-proprietary site. ALERT event sets are posted to the ALERT website as part of real-time updates for catastrophes around the world. Use the event sets to analyze risk on your portfolios.

With the 2023 release, you can import ALERT event sets directly into the Event Set Manager in Touchstone or Touchstone Re, into the business unit you are logged into, with one-click. From the application's home page, click the ALERT tab and then locate the event set of interest to you. The Import Event Set button appears when a download is available: click the button to import the event set into the Event Set Manager. After the import is complete, it is available for immediate use for running a loss analysis without you having to close and re-open any application windows. The link is then disabled for that business unit, to avoid import of the same event set into the business unit. You can quickly view available ALERT events in the Event Set Management pane by specifying "Alert" in the Type column (in Touchstone) or "RealTimeCATMap "(in Touchstone Re).

Note: You can still use the manual procedure described below where you click an event on the home page's ALERT tab, download the event set file from the ALERT™ Worldwide website, and then import the event set into [k_kw_air-product-name_touchstone] through the Administration Console > Event Set Management pane.

Procedure

Download the event set zip file from the ALERT™ Worldwide website to a location that the application can access, such as a shared folder.
Extract the content of the zip file .
Select Admin > Administration Console > Event Set Management.
Click Import.
Navigate to the folder containing the ALERT event set files, select the EVI you want to import, and then click Open.

After the application has installed the event set, it displays the message "Successfully installed name.evi".
Click OK.

The imported event set appears in the event set list. When you configure a detailed loss analysis, the imported event appears in the Event Set list in Analysis Settings.

Note:

Loss analyses that are run against custom ALERT event sets are not CLF-compatible.