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description: Ensure optimal sales and service coverage as your business grows when you add areas and their assignments to territory models in Territory Planning.
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# Add Areas to Alignments

Ensure optimal sales and service coverage as your business grows when you add areas and their assignments to territory models in Territory Planning.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.territory_planning_api_access.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Web Services API enabled</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d38516e77 ">To modify alignment options:</td>

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              <p>Sales Planning Ops Analyst permission set</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p>Query for Datapipelines User for Sales Planning permission set</p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">SF Maps Territory Planning for Sales Planning permission set</p>
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1. Open an alignment and set the focus.
2. Click **Add Area**, and then specify the area’s name, parent area, owner, and color. Define any assignment rules, optimization settings, and assigned users.
    
    ![New area name, owner, color, and description](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/territory_planning_maintain_areas_add_area_1.png)
3. Save your changes. To add more areas, repeat Step 2.
4. If you don’t use assignment rules, optimize the focus using a priority of your choice. Then review the summary.
    
    ![New area on the legend](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/territory_planning_maintain_areas_add_area_3.png)
5. Apply your changes.
    
    ![New area in the alignment](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_performance_management-264-0-0-production-enus/b1f2feb4-26b8-444f-97f7-be2349869d93/sales_performance_management/images/territory_planning_maintain_areas_add_result.png)
    
    The new area and its assignments appear on the legend.