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title: Categories
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- docs: /docs/configuration/templating/#areas
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title: Using areas in template
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- docs: /dashboards/dashboards/#areas-dashboard
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title: Areas dashboard
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An area in Home Assistant is a logical grouping of {% term devices %} and {% term entities %} that are meant to match areas (or rooms) in the physical world of your home.
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## Assigning an area to multiple items
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You can assign an area to multiple items at once in the automation, scene, script, and device pages.
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You can assign an area to multiple items at once in the {% term automation %}, {% term scene %}, {% term script %}, and {% term device %} pages.
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1. Depending on what you want to assign, go to one of the following pages:
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- For automations, scripts, or scenes {% my automations title="**Settings** > **Automations & Scenes**" %} and open the respective tab.
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- Add an **Alias**.
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- Aliases are alternative names used in [voice assistants](/voice_control/aliases/) to refer to an area, entity, or floor.
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## Using the area dashboard
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Once you have assigned your entities to areas, you can use the [areas dashboard](/dashboards/dashboards/#areas-dashboard). The areas dashboard is a pre-populated dashboard that shows your {% term entities %} grouped by areas.
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## Deleting an area
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Follow these steps to delete an area. It will be removed from all the floors it was assigned to. All the devices that were assigned to this area will become unassigned.
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Not all of the predefined dashboards are listed under {% my lovelace_dashboards title="**Settings** > **Dashboards**" %}. The **Logbook** and **History** dashboards are powered by their respective integrations.
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### Areas dashboard (experimental)
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### Areas dashboard
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The **Areas** dashboard is prepopulated by default and shows your {% term entities %} [grouped](/docs/organizing/) by [areas](/docs/organizing/areas/).
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