Flaunt File Metadata

Each Flaunt File has some metadata associated with it. What is a "metadata" -- The technical definition is: data about the data.

For e.g. If you write a Word file, the contents that you write would be its data. But the date on which the file is created, the name you gave to the file, the name of the author of the file are all its metadata. On similar lines, each Flaunt File has some interesting Metadata associated with it. This metadata are used when you send the viewing link to that Flaunt File to your viewers and/or when you insert the link say in Whatsapp/Telegram/Facebook/Twitter/Mastadon, etc. We have used common standards so that such embeds will show some of the metadata of your wonderful Flaunt File as a preview in those apps. Thereby increasing the visibility and social virality of your Flaunt File.

You can set the title, description, and associate an image link, etc as part of the Flaunt File. Some of the metadata is actually used when viewing the Flaunt File -- that is accessible from the "Outline" link at the bottom bar of the Flaunt File.

NOTE: When you embed the view link of a Flaunt File in the above social apps, those apps will usually retrieve the metadata once and use the retrieved data to create the preview. That means, when you update the metadata later; the updates are not reflected back in the earlier places where you had shared the viewing link.

When creating a Flaunt File, you have to first create a metadata for it (You can update all that later, if you want) There is convenient, prominent button in your dashboard after you login to create the metadata for a new Flaunt File.