External applications can, if needed, integrate with the Viz Pilot system to provide resources such as images and videos using “Drag and Drop”. A typical scenario would be using a MAM (Media Asset Management) system to locate media resources and using Drag and Drop to ingest the resources to a template in a Viz Pilot workflow. The required data formats and drag and drop parameters are described in this document.

The integration uses the standard Microsoft Windows functions for OLE Drag and Drop, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/96826a87.aspx. For general information about the Windows Clipboard see MSDN Clipboard Formats.

The drop target of a DnD operation will always be an image control (TTWImage) on a template. Not every image control will accept drops. The accepted custom clipboard formats (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/838a3whf.aspx), along with when each one is accepted, are listed in the following table:

All the accepted custom clipboard formats are registered ones (see MSDN Registered Clipboard Formats). They are text formats, with the same characteristics as CF_UNICODETEXT.

The actual content needs to be an Asset Entry XML, describing a video, or an image asset, respectively.

The Asset Entry media type extends the Atom Entry media type defined by RFC 4287 and RFC 5023, by defining additional markup and additional processing rules. An Asset Entry has the Internet Media Type application/atom+xml with the RECOMMENDED type parameter type=entry.

Pilot Data Server Documentation should be consulted for the Asset Entry media types.