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Areas are designed to help structure larger bOS projects and improve workflow.

When an Area is created, bOS automatically adds its own Devices, Tasks, and Theme nodes. This allows each part of the project to have its own organized structure for devices, automation, and visualization.

Areas are especially useful in larger projects with many devices, tasks, and visualization panels. They are also helpful when the project contains repeated structures, such as multiple floors, apartments, hotel rooms, offices, or buildings.

For example, an integrator can create an Area for Floor 1, configure all devices, tasks, and visualization panels, and then copy the entire Area for Floor 2. After copying, only the device settings need to be replaced with the correct addresses or communication settings for the new floor.

The automation and visualization inside the copied Area will automatically stay linked to the corresponding devices within that Area. This makes it much faster to create repeated project structures without manually rebuilding every task, scene, schedule, or visualization panel.

Using Areas helps keep the configuration cleaner and easier to navigate. Instead of searching through a large number of nodes in one long configuration tree, installers can organize the project by floors, apartments, buildings, zones, or other logical sections.

This makes larger projects easier to manage, duplicate, troubleshoot, and maintain.