Global Template Group

First let me say this should be an option that people can use or not use, their choice should be up to them. With that said, I would suggest having an optional "global template group", must like how there is an "everyone user group", but for templates. The point of this would be to easily apply a template change over multiple styles for sites that have many styles.

You would have the choice to either continue to work things as you do not, use the global template group, or switch between it as needed. But the choice would be yours and you could apply things as you needed it.

Ideally, this would make customizing easier when you had many styles. For example, let us say you have 12 styles. You could apply something to the global group and it would apply it to all 12. Or if it wasn't compatible, you could still do it individually, like you do now.

Quote from Alexander Ebert

Just create a new template group and make all other groups inherit from it. Done.

Not possible. Custom styles have their own template groups.

Quote from Netzwerg

Make that group inherit from your global group as well.

There really needs to be more tutorials for Woltlab ....

OK so set my group with the default as parent...

Then set other groups with the default of my group...

And their values will not be lost?

Quote from Netzwerg

A style will always only deliver the templates that this style changes (or else you should kill the designer).

It really works simply as parent-child relationship.

WCF looks up if the template is in the template group of the style. If it is, it takes that template. If it is not, it looks in the parent group. If it is in the parent group, it takes the template from there. If it's not, it looks in the parent of the parent group and then so, until it either finds the template or reaches the built-in templates.

It's really just a simple hierarchy were a template group can have a parent and where it inherits it's templates from.

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So that was a no... Their templates will not be lost and will still be applied.

Thank you @Netzwerg and @Alexander Ebert