# Creating a room

A single room can be used to run multiple [sessions](https://docs.digitalsamba.com/dashboard/troubleshooting-sessions).

As a team member, you can create, configure and manage rooms using the Digital Samba Dashboard.

## Inheritance

It is important to understand the below inheritance rule:

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**Room settings except 'Privacy' and 'Maximum participants' are inherited from default room settings. You may customise your room by overriding these defaults; only unedited properties will continue to inherit future edits to default room settings.**
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Example 1: if you create a new room and don't tweak its primary colour, and then a team admin or owner alters primary colour in the default room settings to blue, your new room's primary colour will be inherited and automatically be made blue as well.

Example 2: if you create a new room and set its primary colour to red, and then a team admin or owner alters primary colour in the default room settings to blue, your new room's primary colour will stay red.

## Implementation

To create a new room, go to to the [Rooms section](https://dashboard.digitalsamba.com/rooms) of the dashboard and click on the 'Create a room' button. 

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To save time, you can optionally also **clone an existing** room. To do so, go to the [Rooms section](https://dashboard.digitalsamba.com/rooms) of the dashboard and find the option in the three-dot menu next to each existing room.

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You may always click the 'Reset to default' button to reset your room settings to match your '[default room settings](https://docs.digitalsamba.com/dashboard/configuring-your-room-defaults)'.
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Rooms can also be created using the Digital Samba [RestAPI](https://docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/rest-api), and our integrations in Google Calendar and Wordpress. Please refer to [Room Source](https://docs.digitalsamba.com/dashboard/managing-rooms) to see where a room was created.
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You can also create a room on the fly and instantly join it by clicking on the '**Meet now**' button on the dashboard's header.
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Continue reading to get a detailed list of room settings.