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Administration console
The Administration Console enables authorized users to manage a suite of administrative tasks.
Event set management
Your Touchstone Re installation includes event set files for each peril and region licensed by your company.
Model management
Verisk offers a suite of models but clients can also include custom models in the application.
Damage factor files
A Damage Factor File (DFF) is a CSV file that is used to customize losses during an analysis. You can create multiple DFFs.
DFF fields
Damage Factor files contain the following fields.

Introduction
Introduction to the Touchstone Re application.
Companies
A company is unique entity in Touchstone Re.
Company data (exposures)
Companies are associated with exposure data.
Programs
A program is integral to a company and it's exposure data in Touchstone Re.
Portfolios
A portfolio is a group of treaties selected from across companies.
Import
Import exposure data from external sources into Verisk databases.
Export
Export exposure data, results, reports, and companies out of Touchstone Re.
Loss results
The Loss Results pane for a company lists all loss analyses that have been executed for the company.
Analysis
An analysis in Touchstone Re is a probabilistic analysis of your aggregated loss or exposure data.
Tools
Tools to manage Touchstone Re and its data.
Administration console
The Administration Console enables authorized users to manage a suite of administrative tasks.
- User administration
  User administration involves the management of users, roles, groups, and business units.
- Global defaults
  Manage global defaults for the application.
- Event set management
  Your Touchstone Re installation includes event set files for each peril and region licensed by your company.
  - View event set details
    View event set details for each peril and region.
  - Event set details
    Event set details provide view-only information about an event set.
  - Create event set
    A new event set comprises event sets from Verisk models and, if available, from custom models.
  - 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.
  - Model management
    Verisk offers a suite of models but clients can also include custom models in the application.
    - Custom models
    - Verisk models
      Verisk develops and maintains the Verisk models.
    - Damage factor files
      A Damage Factor File (DFF) is a CSV file that is used to customize losses during an analysis. You can create multiple DFFs.
      - Create a DFF
        A Damage Factor File (DFF) is a CSV file that contains the fields in the following table.
      - DFF fields
        Damage Factor files contain the following fields.
      - Associate a DFF with a model
        Use a DFF to customize losses.
      - Export a DFF
        You can export damage factor files (DFFs) associated with models as CSV files.
- Loss defaults
  Loss Defaults provides tools for administrators to set defaults for use when loss analyses are run.
- License management
  Tools to managing application licensing.
- HPC resource management
  HPC Resource Management provides tools to configure HPC (High Performance Computing) resources.
- Server administration
  Server administrators can perform a suite of tasks.
- Object management
  Administration of Touchstone Re templates, objects, zones, and adjustment factors.
Reference
Supporting information on various topics associated with Touchstone Re.

DFF fields

Damage Factor files contain the following fields.

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Column	Field	Format	Comments
1	Model ID	Integer	Verisk assigns the ID for Verisk models and custom models.
2	Year	Integer	Valid values are 1 through 10,000. Values should be in ascending order.
3	Event	Integer	Values should be in ascending order.
4	Day	Integer	Valid values are 1 through 365. Days of a year should be in ascending order for events contained in the same simulation year. For example, Event 2 in Year 1 cannot have day 100 if Event 1 in Year 1 has day 200.
5	Area Code	Alphanumeric	Value comes from Verisk's Industry Loss File (ILF) with the prefix "A" added to the beginning of the value to prevent Excel from reformatting the data; refer to the Excel spreadsheet with the Verisk-supplied DFF area codes, available on the Client Portal .
6	Sub-area Count	Integer	For area records, indicates the number of associated subarea records for the event that follows it until the next area record. For subarea records, enter 0.
7 - 26	LOBn	Factor	Damage factor % to be applied to corresponding custom LOB sums insured for the event and area.