We're tryng to understand what parts of a 'master' projects process definition get shared with child projects. Specifically, if I make changes in the master, what gets flowed to the child projects process.
Also are there any situations where perhaps a change in a child would stop the further flow of changes to that child.
We're struggling to find anything definitive on how this all works. All I could find at the end of a short article on chaging to a shared process was
The project area now uses the roles, permissions, operation preconditions and follow-up actions, and configuration data from the sharing project area. Within your project area, you can customize process settings unless the project administrator of the sharing project area has set those settings as Final (ignore customization of this operation in child areas).
Although editor presentations are part of configuration data, it doesn;t seem to flow through.
Pointers anyone ??

Hi Alan,

The following link has information about process sharing: https://jazz.net/help-dev/clm/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.jazz.platform.doc%2Ftopics%2Fc_sharing_project_area_process.html&re=1&scope=null

Have You used the Unconfigured Process template to create the project area that consume process (as the note on the top of the above page recommends)? As the note says, using a template that defines its own process causes the project area that consumes process to override the process it is consuming, which is not usually the desired behavior.

Regards,
-Vlad

In addition to the help topic referenced above, you might also find this tutorial useful:  Standardize process by using project area process sharing.

I tried the following scenario to better understand what parts of the configuration are inherited from a Provider to a Consumer and here's what I found out as for Dashboard configuration:

1) Removed two widgets from the Provider: one at the project's level (via web) and another one from the process configuration (Project Configuration --> Configuration Data --> Dashboards --> Dashboard Templates).
Note: The "Final..." check is marked.

2) Went into the Consumers of the Provider stated in step1) and verified how this changed in the Provider affected each Consumer:
  - In a Consumer A that was originally based on an "Unconfigured Process Template" (which does not have any database configuration);
  - In a Consumer B that was originally based on the so-called "Standard Template Setup Process" (which has some basic settings of the process configuration not inherited from the Provider); and
  - In a Consumer C that was originally based on a custom template fully configured.

Note: both Provider and the Consumer C were generated based on the same custom template.

3) Changes done in the dashboard of  the Provider were not inherited in Consumer A or Consumer B or Consumer C.

Can you confirm if this is expected behavior? What about the Rational help stating that Configuration Data is inherited? How come the Consumers didn't inherit the changes done in the Configuration Data of the Provider?

I look forward to your comments.

Thanks in advance!
Vicky