It would be entered on the K1 worksheet when in state return (form 545 for nonresidents)

Thank you for your reply.  There is nowhere to enter the amount to be distributed to all the partners on the K! worksheets.  In Lacerte, it is on input Screen 20, "state if different". Federal rental income is $10,000 at the partnership level as reported on the K1 with the partnership's interest and CA rental income is $11,000.  Where does that difference get entered?

Are you working on the 1040 K1 for state or 1065

I am working on a 1065 that invests in other partnerships.

I believe you would enter the difference on the state k1 worksheet. I assume the difference is due to different deprecation amounts. As far as I know there is no place to enter difference on federal 1065 in ProSeries only when you do the state. I have only done one client that had a nonresident CA, and I entered the difference of federal and state when doing the state, but that was on the 1040 K1. 

This has nothing to do with an out-of-state partner. Everything is for California. Issue is that  Proseries does not appear to have a place where a partnership that invests in other partnerships can enter different income amounts for as you correctly state, depreciation methods. The only option I see is to override form 8825 in the California module for every partnership, which then creates a whole post of other problems that also need to be overridden. There must be a better way to do this.

If is only depreciation differences for state then that can be entered on the federal asset entry worksheet about half way down under "state depreciation" but it says CA must be entered on state return

The numbers are coming from a K-1 issued to the partnership. I am assuming they're depreciation differences, I don't actually know that and again, there should be a way to enter these differences so that it passes through schedule K and to the individual partners' K-1 forms.

I believe you will have to give each partner instructions on how to handle state difference. Lot of things in ProSeries need preparer to either override or get creative to accomplish clients needs. if you do a lot of more complicated returns you may be better off with Lacerte