Quick Portal Manager has been designed to use consist definition from the global consist library which is a new component introduced with QuickDrive from TS2009 SP1 and later.
If you define and edit directly your consist in the global consist list library editor (you can access this editor at anytime in driver or surveyor or even mainmenu mode through the option menu), the consist definition is immediately available in quick portal manager.
This new editor has been designed with QuickDrive rule design at a time where Auran planned a TS2009EE edition with quickdrive and no surveyor mode. Now they have released TS2010EE edition with surveyor included, so the need for global consist list library is not so obvious, but it has some interesting features like multi list support which can be usefull in quickdrive rule and quickportal manager.
if you define your consist using the traditional way under surveyor, your consist definition will still be available under quickdrive and quickportal manager, but delayed as you will need to wait for the system to copy the surveyor definitions to the global consist list named surveyorlist. This just now happens in TS2009 and TS2010 when QuickDrive rule is loaded in a route either directly from the menu (quickdrive mode) or in driver or surveyor mode.
So just now to retrieve new surveyor consist definition in the quickdrive portal manager you need to include quickdrive rule also in your session (which needs also the consistdatahandler rule to be included) and if you save and reload your session the new surveyor consist definitions should be available under the global consist list surveyorlist. I understand it is not very practical but the quickdrive and quickportal manager rules have not been designed initialy to use anymore the surveyor consist definitions but to use directly consist defined under the global consist list library editor. Adding the global consist list surveyorlist has been done later to offer an upward compatibility to retrieve previous surveyor definitions in the GCL component.
What I can improve in a next QuickPortal manager version is to include a link in the interface to enforce a GCL refresh of the surveyorlist from QuickPortal manager. You will still have to ask for a GCL refresh, but you will no longer need to include QuickDrive and to save and reload your session.
I will try to add this functionality in a few weeks. And if you have some other wishes for QuickPortal manager, let me know. And I already know a documentation is needed ...
Pierre.