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About areas
In Genetec ClearID™, an area is a logical entity that defines the relationship between Synergis™ doors and area owners. Areas are managed by the area owner.

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Managing areas
Learn how to manage areas.
- About areas
  In Genetec ClearID™, an area is a logical entity that defines the relationship between Synergis™ doors and area owners. Areas are managed by the area owner.
- Creating areas
  In Genetec ClearID™, an area is a logical entity that defines the relationship between Synergis™ doors and area owners. Areas are managed by the area owner.
- Adding area managers
  Area managers are composed of two distinct roles: area owners and area approvers. Before you can define policies for an area, assign area approvers, or approve or deny access requests for an area, you must add your area managers.
- Adding schedules to an area
  Before you can grant people access to an area, you must add schedules to your areas.
- Granting access to an area
  To grant people access to an area, you must add identities or roles to an area and schedule access on a person-by-person or role-by-role basis.
- Reviewing area access
  To perform an audit or check who has access to an area, periodic reviews must be performed by an area owner, area approver, or site owner.
- Approving area access requests
  To approve area access requests, an Area owner, Area approver, or a Supervisor must review the pending approvals. They can then decide which requests to approve.
- Rejecting area access requests
  To reject area access requests, an Area owner, Area approver, or a Supervisor must review the pending approvals. They can then decide which requests to deny.
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About areas

2020-08-19

In Genetec ClearID™, an area is a logical entity that defines the relationship between Synergis™ doors and area owners. Areas are managed by the area owner.

Doors are not managed in Genetec ClearID™, doors are managed in Security Center:

Managing doors from ClearID is impractical due to the distance from the hardware.
A door must be properly configured in Security Center and linked to the hardware physically managing the door.
After areas are created in ClearID and synchronized in Security Center, doors can then be added to those areas in Security Center.
Note: Doors moved under areas inherit the access rules of the area.
Door setup is performed in Security Center separately from the areas. After both doors and areas are present in Security Center, doors must be added to areas.