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title: "Tile Datastore Types"
description: "A Tile is a cloud datastore, that an Account receiving data builds in their Project. It provides a way for another Account (usually Tile Licence) to manually initiate a share of the data by dragging a file into the Eightwire Tile."
url: "https://eightwire.io/knowledge-base/tile-datastore-types/"
category: "Build Tile Datashares"
generated: "2026-09-16"
---
# Tile Datastore Types

> A Tile is a cloud datastore, that an Account receiving data builds in their Project. It provides a way for another Account (usually Tile Licence) to manually initiate a share of the data by dragging a file into the Eightwire Tile.

There are three types of tile datastores available:

**Excel** **Tile  —** can be mapped to any destination datastore.

**Delimited Text Tile —** can be mapped to any destination datastore.

**Generic** T**ile —** can be used with any file type (such as word, PDF, or image files) which are mapped to a Folder destination.

![Tile Datastore Types (screenshot)](https://eightwire.io/knowledge-base/tile-datastore-types/images/tile-datastore-types-1.webp)

The Information section of a tile has configurable text sections for Instructions and  Support.

**Templates** — allows you to upload reporting templates or specifications for your data provider to access.

**Avatar** — allows you to customise the Tile with your organisations branding.