# Tile Properties

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tile-properties/3417>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tile-properties/3417 "2018-09-06T11:20:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![johmarjac](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/johmarjac/32/2008_2.png) [@johmarjac](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/johmarjac)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tile-properties/3417/1 "2018-09-06T11:20:46Z")

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Hi,

I dont understand how to correctly use the custom properties. I have a tileset and on that tileset I made an animation of 3 tiles. When I am now on my tilemap I can add this animation to my map. Now I want to add a custom property to this specific tile i placed on the map, not the general tile defined in the tileset. For instance, lets say the tile is a some kind of portal which should teleport. I want it to have a string property telling the map name where to teleport to. If I define it on the tileset, the tile will always teleport to the same location, but I want multiple instances of that tile and I want to be able to set the map name of the tile on my tilemap, so I can have the same tile twice, one of it leads to map1 and the other to map2.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![baylej](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/baylej/32/1381_2.png) [@baylej](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/baylej)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tile-properties/3417/2 "2018-09-06T12:00:59Z")

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Hi,

The only way to do that is to use an object layer and place the tile as an object, then you may add properties to that tile object.

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**Author:** ![johmarjac](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/johmarjac/32/2008_2.png) [@johmarjac](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/johmarjac)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tile-properties/3417/3 "2018-09-06T16:20:38Z")

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Hi, thanks for your answer. That worked out quite well, I didnt noticed that for objects it is different. Thanks 🙂