Adding Exposure Views to a Project

After you create a project, you can add one or more exposure views, which identify the data that you want to focus on. Adding an exposure view involves selecting one or more exposure sets, optionally creating a filter, specifying currency and rate information, and naming the exposure view. You can create multiple exposure views with multiple exposure sets at the same time.

To create multiple exposure views with multiple exposure sets:

1.     Open the project in which you want to create a new exposure view.

2.     In the All Exposure Views tab, click New , and then click Create New Exposure View.

The Create New Exposure View pane appears and displays the exposure sets in the available databases on the current server.

3.     Optionally, filter the list using the row below the header row.

For example, you can filter the list to include only exposure sets with Commercial Wind in the name.

4.     Select the check box next to each exposure set to include.

You can select exposure sets from different databases.

5.     Optionally, create a complex filter in the Filters area.

For example, you can filter the exposure sets by country and peril.

You can export the filter.

6.     In the Options area, select the currency and exchange rate table to use for the exposure view.

The currency that you select does not change the currency of the underlying exposure data. Touchstone includes the currency in the Exposure Summary log file.

7.     Optionally, select Create Separate View for each Exposure Set, and type a prefix for all of the exposure views.

Touchstone uses the name of each exposure set and the prefix as the name of an exposure view.

8.     Leave the default setting for the Auto-generate exposure summary option (recommended).

If you select the option, the exposure view includes an exposure map and tables along with the contract and location lists and location details.

If you deselect the option, the exposure view includes only the contract and location lists and location details. Additionally, the list of exposure views does not include contract and location count information.

9.     Click Create.

Touchstone initiates the creation of the exposure view, and a link appears in the lower right corner of the pane: Activity Monitor.

10.  In the navigation pane, in the Project Data area, click All Exposure Views.

The grid includes the new exposure view.

How Touchstone handles duplicate exposure set names in multiple exposure databases

It is possible to import data with the same exposure set name into multiple exposure databases. Therefore, if you select exposure sets that have the same name but that are on different databases, Touchstone will add the database name to the exposure view name.

For example, ClientX's "HurricaneGina" exposure set is stored on two databases, "TropicalCyclonesUS" and "TropicalCyclonesOutsideUS. Using the following format, where "ClientX" is the "optional_prefix",

[optional_prefix]_ExposureSetName_ExposureSetDatabaseName

the name of each exposure view containing "HurricaneGina" would be:

•.        ClientX_HurricaneGina

•.        ClientX_HurricaneGina_TropicalCyclonesOutsideUS

If there is a duplicate database name, Touchstone adds a number (or increases it) after the database name, starting with "1" and then increasing the number as needed, as in:

•.        ClientX_HurricaneGina_TropicalCyclonesUS

•.        ClientX_HurricaneGina_TropicalCyclonesOutsideUS_1