How do I properly re-use tilemaps?

Stupid question, but I have a tilemap object placed on my first level. Now I want to re-use it on my others levels, so I place the tilemap object into my second (third, fourth) layout and it always has

a) the dimensions of the first instance on level 1

b) the content / layout of the the first level

Before I can start to design a new level, I have to clear all tiles first, which is a tedious job, as there's no selection tool to selected multipe tiles in the layout and delete / move them.

Any time you copy an object instance, it will use the same properties/values/everything as the starting point for the new instance.

Easiest solution is to just copy a blank instance of the tilemap, rather than the populated instance from your game layout.

I suggest you make a "prefabs" layout with no event sheet. Stick all of your objects there and just take copies from there. This gives you a central location from where all your initalised objects can be taken.

You can design then store the tileJSON of tilemap, then load in the tilemap whenever you want.

The problem with dragging from the project explorer is it will always take the first instance as the "reference instance". Since Construct doesn't have a typical implementation of prefabs, you need to kind of create your own. Using a separate layout for any object's initial state is the only real way around this limitation.

All of my projects use a layout I call "Parking Lot", which I treat as a prefab explorer. It's not ideal, but honestly it works fine once you get your head around the way Construct instantiates objects.