Not all Changes in Master reflect in child projects' configuration section

Also see

https://jazz.net/library/article/1077
https://jazz.net/library/article/1005
https://jazz.net/library/article/1008

and Jorge's blog post around it: http://jorgediazblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/managing-fine-grain-process-customization-for-work-items-in-rtc-4-0-1/

I am not aware of any clear description available for this but I guess this depends on how the interface of each section of the configuration data behaves or pulls different information. But when we know that a particular section is marked Final in Master, then for that section the child process is anyway ignored and what is reflecting there is not accounted.
However, if you notice that the Child PA is not functioning as per the Master PA process then that should be  concerning. I would still suggest you to go through the links we mentioned, if you have not already.

Hi Indradri, What i mean here is that i create a new attribute call Test Date in Master project, then the child project also has this new attribute added to the Types and Attributes Section automatically. However, if i remove a presentation from Workitem Editor presentation or rename a state in Workflow/Action, these changes do not reflect on the Child project area. The child project workitems show the changes as per the Master. 

You have probably choose to customize the configuration data of the consumer/child PA and if you hadn't done so, nothing of child PA would be visible to you and that created probably created the confusion. I think this is working as expected.

 Hi Geoffrey, I don't make any changes on the child projects other than adding members, adding the advisors,operation behaviour specific to the project. When i added the new attributes on the Master, i saw them part of the children project on refresh, But changes like workflow, modifying resolutions, do not reflect on the process configuration section of the children but the workitems belonging to the children reflect the changes done on the Master..

I see ... you are referring to what you actually see in the process guidance section of the child project area.   Currently, the inherited process guidance is not displayed there, but I agree that it should be.   I've submitted work item The "effective" process configuration should be displayed in a project area that shares its process from another project area (266799) requesting that behavior.

Thank you, Geoff. This was what was worrying me. Wanted to find out if this was the behaviour for all or if i was only getting it wrong on my setup.

Now, assume that for some reasons, the Master-Consumer relationship breaks.

Are looking for a way to create a process template for the "effective" process of the consumer project area (i.e. the overlay of the consumer process configuration on the master process configuration)?