2022.5: New settings menu

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- [Reoganized configuration menu](#reoganized-configuration-menu) - [Reorganized settings menu](#reorganized-settings-menu)
- [Find entities even quicker than before](#find-entities-even-quicker-than-before) - [Find entities even quicker than before](#find-entities-even-quicker-than-before)
- [New automation & script features](#new-automation--script-features) - [New automation & script features](#new-automation--script-features)
- [If-then](#if-then) - [If-then](#if-then)
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- [All changes](#all-changes) - [All changes](#all-changes)
<!--<p class='img'> ## Reorganized settings menu
<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/blog/2022-05/entity-hidden.png' alt='Screenshot showing the new option to hide an entity'>
You can now mark an entity as hidden in the entity settings.
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<!--<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/blog/2022-05/groups.png' alt='Screenshot showing adding groups from the UI'>--> A couple of releases ago, we started reorganizing the configuration menu, and
this release is bringing the next big step in that reorganization.
<!--<div class='videoWrapper'> The goal is to have everything in a single logical place, and after user tests
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FLH4SXMAQS4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> and many discussions in frontend and UX channels, this is what the menu
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## Reoganized configuration menu
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- Improve story/add more information on "why".
- Needs more body, this is a huge change and improvement.
- Add screenshots when fontend UI is stabilized/finished for this release
- Review important movements to highlight.
- Add a breaking change section to summerize the shifts?
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A couple of releases ago, we started the process of reorganizing the
configuration menu and this release is bringing the next big step in that
reorganizing.
The goal is to have everything in a single logical place, having it accessible
nicely from mobile devices, and allow/prepare for future expansion.
<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/blog/2022-05/configuration-menu.png' alt='Screenshot showing the new configuration menu structure'> <img class="no-shadow" src='/images/blog/2022-05/configuration-menu.png' alt='Screenshot showing the new configuration menu structure'>
Are you running Home Assistant OS or Supervised? The Supervisor has been fully Most notably, it is renamed "Configuration" to "Settings", and we have a brand
merged into the configuration menu, to provide a seamless/unified experience. new "System" submenu (shown on the right in the above screenshot).
This removes weirdness like having a network section in the system menu
and the Supervisor section.
Blueprints are now moved to the automations & scenes section, and by popular Are you running Home Assistant OS? The Supervisor has been fully merged into
request: Helpers have moved to the devices & services page. Areas & Zone are the settings menu to provide a seamless/unified experience. It removes
now nicely brought together in a single menu, and there is now an extensive weirdness like having a network section in one menu and the Supervisor section.
System menu.
YAML Configuration Controls have a new home in the developer tools. This felt like a more logical place to have the reloading happen. Blueprints moved to the automations & scenes section, and by popular request:
Restarting Home Assistant can now be done via the Overflow menu on the System Dashboard Page. Helpers have moved to the devices & services page.
YAML configuration tools have a new home in the developer tools, aa more
logical place for YAML configuration checks and reloading.
You might notice some of the new menu items are fairly empty. For those menus,
like "Storage" and "Hardware", we have more content planned soon!
Just to be sure, we have added a list of changes to the breaking changes section;
please check those out in case you are missing something.
## Find entities even quicker than before ## Find entities even quicker than before