What is the difference between Creating a Project Area based on process template and Creating a requirement Project based on project template?

Although guesing, to me it seems like you have ended up creating two RRC projects, one probably from JTS Home page and another from the Administration icon from the RRC application (which gives you an option to choose a predefined template).

If you have selected any predefined process template while creating the project(s), then there could be some differences as the predefined templates comes with some structural differences (like artifact types etc) and samples to speed up adoption of the RRC application. Otherwise your project is blank and doesn't have any samples or artifact types etc.

You may want to look at the link below to see what comes with each predefined templates and that may help you select one that suits your business needs.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v4r0m1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.rational.rrm.help.doc%2Ftopics%2Ft_create_project.html

Hi

Have a look at https://jazz.net/forum/questions/115372/what-is-the-difference-between-creating-a-project-area-based-on-process-template-and-creating-a-requirement-project-based-on-project-template

erwin