How to Add and Edit Projects in Openleet

Projects help potential customers see what your business has actually done. You can use them for completed work, active projects, before-and-after stories, portfolio items, or detailed case studies.

This guide explains how to create a project, organize its details, add a multi-image gallery, and control where it appears.

1. Open your project library

1. Sign in to Openleet.
2. Select the business you want to manage.
3. Open Content.
4. Choose Projects & portfolio.
5. Select New project, or choose an existing project to edit it.

The library shows the number of public projects, drafts, and items with limited visibility. Featured projects are listed before other recently updated entries.

2. Add the project basics

Project title

The title is required. Describe the work in specific, customer-friendly language.

For example:

• Kitchen Renovation in Squamish
• Brand Identity for a North Vancouver Café
• Commercial Heat-Pump Installation for a Six-Unit Building

Avoid vague titles such as Recent Project or Our Best Work.

Project type and category

Use Project type to describe the format or kind of work, such as case study, renovation, campaign, installation, or consultation.

Use Category to group similar work, such as residential, commercial, branding, landscaping, or web design. Keep category names consistent across projects so visitors can understand the collection.

Short summary

Write one or two sentences explaining what the project was and why it mattered. The summary may appear on project cards and in page descriptions, so it should make sense without the full story.

Full project story

Describe the work, process, important decisions, and final outcome. Use plain language and include details that help a prospective customer understand the scope of your work.

3. Record useful project details

Choose the project's operational status:

• Planned for work that has not started;
• In progress for active work;
• Completed for finished work; or
• On hold when work is temporarily paused.

Project status and publication are separate controls. For example, you can save a completed project as a private draft, or publish an in-progress project when the customer has approved it.

You can also add:

• a general location, such as Squamish, BC;
• the client's name, only with permission;
• start and completion dates; and
• related services, separated by commas.

Use a general service area instead of an exact residential address unless the location is intentionally public.

4. Build a useful case study

The optional case-study fields give readers a consistent way to understand the project.

Challenge

Explain the original need, constraint, or problem. Do not disclose confidential customer information.

Solution

Describe the approach, work, or important decisions your business provided. Be specific enough to demonstrate the process without exposing protected methods or security details.

Results

Explain what changed after the work. Use measurable results only when you can support them, and give enough context to avoid misleading comparisons.

Key outcomes

Enter one outcome per line. Keep each statement short and factual.

5. Add project images

The project editor supports JPG, PNG, WebP, and AVIF images.

• Cover image: represents the project on cards and at the top of its page.
• Before image: shows the relevant starting condition.
• After image: shows the result from a comparable viewpoint when possible.
• Gallery: contains up to 12 additional images.

You can select several gallery images at once and add more in a later selection. Duplicate files and files beyond the 12-image limit are not added.

For a clear presentation:

• choose a strong landscape image for the cover;
• use consistent lighting and angles for before-and-after comparisons;
• arrange images so they tell a logical story;
• remove near-duplicates and low-quality images;
• avoid screenshots containing private messages or personal data; and
• confirm that you own the images or have permission to publish them.

The first gallery image can also provide a card image when a separate cover image is not available, but a deliberate cover image gives you better control over the presentation.

6. Review the URL, page metadata, and action button

Open SEO and actions for optional settings.

URL slug

Openleet creates a slug from the project title. Keep it short, readable, and stable. Changing it after publication changes the project's page address, so review it before the first save.

Customer action

Add a button label and complete URL when the project has a useful next step, such as Request a similar project, View this service, or Contact our team. Make sure the destination matches the label.

Meta title and description

If custom metadata is unnecessary, the project title and summary provide sensible defaults. Add a custom meta title or description only when it explains the page more clearly.

Openleet generates the canonical address for the project; there is no canonical field to manage.

7. Choose publication and search settings

New projects are set to Published by default. Turn off Published before saving when the project is incomplete, awaiting customer permission, or not ready for visitors.

• Published makes the project eligible to appear publicly.
• Featured gives it more prominent placement and sorts it before ordinary projects.
• Hide from search adds a request that search engines not index the project page.

Use Featured for a small group of current, representative projects. Publishing makes the page available; it does not guarantee visits, search placement, or inclusion in an external AI service.

8. Save and inspect the project

Select Save project, then open the saved project from the library. Review both its card and full detail page.

Where published projects appear

Published projects can appear in the projects section of your Openleet business profile, with individual pages for each project.

Businesses using an eligible Openleet website can also show a project listing and project detail pages on their tenant domain. To add Projects to the website navigation, open Website → Navbar and activate the projects menu when the feature is available.

Featured projects are presented before ordinary published projects. Draft projects remain private.

Edit or remove a project

Return to Content → Projects & portfolio and select a project card. You can correct its information, replace or remove images, add gallery images, change its status, feature or unfeature it, publish it, or return it to draft.

Update projects when the work progresses or when results become available. Do not label planned or active work as completed prematurely. Delete a project only when you no longer need it, because deletion is permanent.

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