Global Swatches, and color in general

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So not sure how this is not done right in Affinity's programs.  Global Swatches, are only in document, not available in application swatch palettes!  I work in a high volume, fast paced shop, we have a number of what we would call basic or default colors we use in designing, and then tweak them from there.  I have always been able to set up a swatch book in Indesign and use that swatch in all my work as a base.  While Affinity has that feature as an application swatch, the colors once applied to items do not not retain any connection to the item as they should so color can be adjusted once for all items in the document that use that swatch, this is only available as a Global Color and will only work in a Document Palette, which I would have to rebuild every time.  So while I really like Publisher in a lot of ways this is a really crimp on my movement away from Adobe, and is right up there with no step and repeat function (power duplicate is not the same thing) and not opening Indesign files (I know that is more difficult, but Quark can do it, so it is possible).

I am also at a loss as how to get all my prints from printing so dark, no color management settings seem to change anything and all my photos come out extremely dark, but only when printed in Affinity Publisher, any other program prints perfectly.