Questions I cannot find the answers to

Configuration
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Hi,

I’ve been playing around with HA for a month or two. I’ve started to create a couple of automations but want to expand a bit into scripts - this is where things get vague.
1 - Theres a YouTube video Creating a Script In Home Assistant which implies there is an editor that creates scripts like automations. However I cannot find it anywhere? The video was version 0.52 and I’m on on 0.103 so has this option been removed? Why… do automations take over from it? I was under the impression you used scripts for things like “Turn everything off” - to turn all my switches off in HA through 1 click, not having to click each individual switch to turn them off. If this is the case and the script editor has been removed, do I just create an automation without a trigger?
2 - I’ve tried to create a script file. I added the following line to my configuration.yaml

script: !include scripts.yaml

I then tried to put what I thought was a very simple script inside the file:

script:
  turn_everything_off:
    alias: Turn Everything Off
    description: 'Turns off all switches'
    sequence:
      - alias: Porch Switch Off
        service: switch.turn_off
        data:
          entity_id: switch.porch_switch
      - alias: Christmas Tree Off
        service: switch.turn_off
        data:
          entity_id: switch.christmas_tree

However I just receive an error when I run “Check Config” - I’ve used a yaml validator and the code appears to be clean. The error is as follows

Invalid config for [script]: [turn_everything_off] is an invalid option for [script]. Check: script->script->script->turn_everything_off. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 130). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/integrations/script/

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

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Be warned, Home Assistant updates every three weeks, videos can very quickly become horribly outdated and misleading.

Yes there is, you’ll see it under Configuration → Scripts.

Don’t put script: as the header in scripts.yaml, you’ve already got that in configuration.yaml

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Thanks, the scripts option wasn’t there but since the script started working (after removing the script tag) the option has become available. Perhaps loading the file triggered something? Thanks for the help!

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Kind of.

Removing the extraneous script: let it read the file correctly.