Resource role information from shared resource pool file to a master project file

Hi,
I am using Microsoft Project Professional 2013. We have multiple project managers running their own projects. We are building out a PMO and are bringing all these plans into one master 'portfolio' plan. So
we have one master plan file, subproject 1, subproject 2... and then we have setup a shared resource file where all resources are utilising the same shared pool.
This works well and in the master file we can do resource usage checks. We have also added extra columns such as resource group which gets shown in the master file and we can filter which group (in our
case infrastructure, projects, applications etc) are consuming most resources.
The bit I am stuck on is management also wanted to report on the resource role ie which person is a project manager, business analyst etc. I have created a custom field in the shared resource plan as 'resource role' and populated as per their job role but for
some reason the info added in the shared resource file doesn't get conveyed to the master file as say the resource group does.
Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance

Thanks Dales for helping out. Thats how I originally did it. Went into organizer. At first I had copied the 'Resource Role' custom field to the global template and then in the master file added the same column but nothing showing. Then tried same again
but this time copying directly to the master file but still no joy.
I am seeing 'Resource group' appear as it should. I make a change to a someones resource group in the share pool file and I see the change in the master file but not happening with the custom field resource role.
Terry

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