That would be a palette system. With a palette system, you save all your positions, beams, and/or colors. Then any scene or cue record using that palette will update automatically with that palette.
For example, if you had scenes and cues that used the same focus for drums, you can create a position palette called 'drums' and use that palette for drum cues and scenes, then record them. Now when you go to another venue, simply update the focus on the 'drums' palette, and it will automatically update all the cues and scenes using that palette. Same goes for colors and beam properties (gobos, gobo positions, focus, shutter, animation, zoom, iris, frost, beam shaper) too.
It is a very powerful tool, a time saver, and very useful. The problem is it is not cheap. It is generally only seen on high end desks, though that has since changed with the Ion.