I have a generic page template that I wish to reuse for lots of pages, but each page also needs to have its own template within that. The generic page template might include a page banner and breadcrumbs for example.The way I'm currently doing this is having every page be an ad-hoc clone of the generic template, however, this isn't easily managed when changes need to be made to the generic template itself as I then need to make that change on all ad-hoc templates too.I could get around this by creating a new page that uses the generic template at the parent level and then nest all my pages under it, acting as a master page, but I feel like that's polluting the content tree unnecessarily as I already have a master template at the very root.Is there a way to make page templates inherit from other templates without actually creating a physical master page in the content tree?If it were possible to make specific webpart containers not shared to all pages that use the same template that would work too.
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