P: Better keyword management

a book feature nobody with a clue will use.

in 2015 also.... but hey you get crappy mobile support now.

i have yet to find someone who uses the mobile app for something productive.....

it ́s a PITA to use LR mobile on a tablet.

but hey adobe maybe gets some instagram user ....

yeah well... get used to it.

until adobe gets real competition they will do nothing.

adobes focus is on hooking people to the cloud.. making money without doing something in return.

once you are in the cloud you have to pay anyway....

and don ́t get me started with the unusable beta features we get every 6 month.

over 4 years and next to nothing happend.......

Why aren't you able to make catalog wide searches? If you select the All Photographs collection and select some search criteria, what happens? (And yes I understand the available criteria is limited, but just want to check there's nothing else going wrong here.)

As an IT person with 50 years experience, and, a software engineering academic of some small standing, I despair about the failure to use standard IR and query techniques on Lightroom and many other systems and web pages that support key words and querying. Simple boolean expressions are easy to understand and easy to implement. Simple conjunctive searches that treat the key word string K1 K2 ...Kn as K1 AND K2 AND ...Kn and do not require one to nominate the filed that the Ki in are liberating. Someone at Melbourne Uni built a front end for bib/roff under unix that did this, and, I used it for years.
Right now, I don't seem to be able to make catalog wide searches on Lightroom 4. That is an awful pain.
Come on adobe, fix these things! Surely you can do better than the Open Source projects like Thunderbird that ignore problems?

Don't give up, at least we got finally CMYK soft proofing (which was "technically impossible", as we were told in the years before 😉

Keywording is one of the things I've been hoping would be fixed/improved with every succeeding version of Lightroom, but I guess it's just not sexy enough to attract developers' attention. (Or probably not sexy enough to attract management's attention.)

I am also absolutely dying for a keyword tool where I can set standards for all new keywords like don't export 3rd level keywords or don't export synonyms or set all new "people" keywords to not export.

Another feature on my wish list is the ability to click on a photo's keyword symbol and have a popup show up with the assigned keywords - I don't always have the keyword panel open and it would be nice to not have to scroll up or down and click the keyword panel open.

Since this topic is 4 years old I don't hold old much hope for any improvements soon, but I just had to let out my frustration since I'm in the middle of keywording 1000 pictures.

Another voice to this request. Not only is keywording and keyword management in need of a major overhall as described in this request but it is totally non-existant in LR Mobile which is the task that LR Mobile is REALLY suited for.