# Ability to set global properties in configure presets?
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/ability-to-set-global-properties-in-configure-presets/13726
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 12, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/ability-to-set-global-properties-in-configure-presets/13726 "2025-03-12T00:00:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@benthevining](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/benthevining)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/ability-to-set-global-properties-in-configure-presets/13726/1 "2025-03-12T00:00:36Z")
Has this ever been discussed before? Is there a reason it’s not supported?
The use case would be setting properties that don’t have a variable to initialize them, such as `USE_FOLDERS`
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### Author:  [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/ability-to-set-global-properties-in-configure-presets/13726/2 "2025-03-12T12:09:15Z")
Presets are meant to be a layer over what can be achieved by spelling out command-line options. In general we don’t have functionality that can only be achieved via presets.
In this case, one could add support for a `CMAKE_USE_FOLDERS` cache entry, which could then be enabled by presets.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/ability-to-set-global-properties-in-configure-presets/13726/3 "2025-07-20T02:33:10Z")
For anyone interested, [this](https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/blob/eb56394c9de102aeaba64cba062b2564d8d53bdb/Source/cmTarget.cxx#L304) is the table to update to add support for `CMAKE_USE_FOLDERS`. Note that the following would also need updated:
- docs
- test suite (there’s a dedicated test that has infra for easily testing that table)