Reliable way to sync/link activities between files stored in sharepoint

Hello, we have two different Microsoft project files A and B. Both files are stored in a SharePont workspace. In file A there are tasks that needs to be copied (and synchronized) to B. Currently this is done manually but we would like to have the
tasks update automatically in B when they are updated in A.
What we have tried is to copy and paste as special (link) which would seem to work as intended.
Is this a reliable method of synchronizing a large number of tasks and subtasks or is there another way to solve this more reliably? When trying locally I've occasionally received errors roughly translated: "Could not connect
to link / broken link".
Thanks in advance,
Sebastian

Hi,
I strongly suggest you to avoid creating link with copy-paste special. It could introduce corruption in your projects.
I understand that you are not using project server thus a way for linking tasks between projects is to use the inter projects links. This allows you seeing the delays of external predecessors and accepting/rejecting it.
Here is the procedure:
http://pmpspecialists.com/Blog/2012/07/cross-project-task-dependencies-in-project-server-2010/
http://microsoftepmsolution.blogspot.ca/2012/01/epm2010-creating-cross-project-links.html
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, MCP |

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