P: Ability to sync Smart Collections with Ecosystem Clients

There are lots of discussions on the difficulties of recovering mistakes removing photos from Smart Collections. Given LR mobile (currently) only allows changing the flag and rating, why not set up a Smart Collection based on the flag setting and ratings which would exclude photos from your collections ? That way, photos deleted by flagging changed would appear in this other collection and could be fixed.

When LR capabilities are extended to include say managing keywords, it becomes more difficult. However, this might simply require having a 'dumb' smart collection which picks up all photo all all recent photos.

The lack of syncing smart collections is a major gap. As an amateur photographer, smart collections are my primary tool for grouping and viewing photos. Some of these are keyword based, however others are timeframe based and therefore quite dynamic. Lightroom mobile for me is used for two purposes, basic editing / cleaning of photos and viewing / sharing.
Basic correction .... flag photos for keep/deletion, rate and basic correction particularly when travelling. This really only works without smart collection as I have 1 collection which captures device camera roll. SLR jpegs are imported to the device and appear in this collection.Lightroom mobile does an excellent job.
However for viewing ... This a a real chore. After completing final editing / naming, it is then nessary to determine what has changed in smart collections and copying photos to the LR mobile collections.
Whilst I enjoy the functionality, given viewing photos is so important and smart collections are pivotal in providing a 'live' view of collections, I'm really not sure if there is sufficient value to continue my Adobe subscription.

I've got it working now, and it's excellent. Fills a very obvious gap in Lightroom Mobile.

I was able to set it up with Rob's help & it works like a charm.

Havent tried it yet but Thank you!!! This will be so helpful! Hopefully an official release is added soon but this will allow me to use the mobile app in the meantime 🙂

Thanks Scott! - that's good to hear..

I recently automated it (dumb collections auto-updated when smart collections change), so consider downloading the latest version. If you have any other ideas for improvement, do tell.. (preferably by contacting me outside the forum: http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ContactMe).

Thanks again,
Rob

This works great! Thanks for making it. At least now I don't have to abandon my smart collection based workflow with Mobile Lightroom!

I've had a lot of good feedback for the new feature in CollectionAgent (Maintain Dumb Copies of Smart Collections) which helps with this Lr shortcoming. The latest version supports automatic updating, so dumb collection tracks smart collection without any action on users part.

In the future, please contact me "directly" (outside the forum) if you have problems with any of my plugins:

http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ContactMe

Anyway, you must not have used the correct function, which should have been:

'Make Dumb Copy of Smart Collections'

I don't see how that function could possibly have created any more smart collections - just regular collections with same contents as their smart counterpart.

Rob

I've just been trying, and I'm afraid I don't understand how it should work. I suspect it's me, but I can only get it to create another set of smart collections.
Thanks