Hi All,

Any help would be appreciated here,

We are currently working with the Avid Interpay environment and will be archiving to a Front Porch/StorageTek solution.

We are trying to find a way to "machine generate" a unique ID that would be created each time there is a send to archive request. this unique ID would then be exported to our legacy Library system where the "shotlists" and traditional library metadata will resides. Hopefully this unique ID would keep the two systems in sync until we have full-blown media management capabilities in Interplay.

Does anyone know if there is any "macro" type functionality within interplay to allow programming some type of unique ID, Or has anyone created any thing in any other programming language C+, VB etc and slipped it into Interplay to do something like this?

Thanks

Brian Knott, CBC television

 The interplay does seem to have a rather extensive web services interface. http://www.avid.com/resources/whitepapers/Interplay_WS_Whitepaper.pdf

But AFIK it does not enable any triggering of events from within the interplay. You could try to build an application that will be triggered by files landing on your current archive and will then use the interplay web services to query the interplay to link the files to an interplay asset.

Hi,

In Interplay MobID's serve as unique identifiers for assets. The MobID is an internally generated GUID and is accessible via the Interplay API's, but not accessible or visible in the user interfaces.

Also, most (or all) Microsoft based API's (C++, ...) have a CreateGUID method, which will create a unique ID. Typically, unique ID's are a combination of MAC network address of the NIC card, CPU ID, Time/Date data and a running number - but there are other algorithms also.