P: Custom sort order of keywords (instead of alphabetic).

As far as I can see, the order in which you write keywords is not stored anywhere in LR's catalogue. That's partly because LR is a database, but also because keyword order isn't part of the IPTC standard which Adobe would factor into the design. Modifying the catalogue isn't a 2 minute job.

I've been experimenting with a plugin which does the job, but the workflow isn't ideal. Again, it's not a 2 minute job.

Really frustrating. It can't be that difficult to add custom keyoword ordering to LR?

The same with me. Frustrating this kind of ignorance.

"I can't believe it's version 6 and Lightroom hasn't figured this out." Or is it just ignorance? Considering that the automatic sorting is a build in feature that required additional programming efforts it would be a 2 Minute programming task excluding this "feature" by adding a checkbox. By the looks of it professional photographers requirements don't count for Adobe.Ignorance is bliss ... I'm seriously disappointed.

Dear Lightroom,

Could you please add the option of custom sort order of keywords or not changing the order of keywords put together in a smart manner by your users: amateurs and professionals?
As long as this "option" is not in place as it is in bridge - your bridge software! - and CaptureOne, I cannot buy into your system as a professional photographer.

Thank you for letting us know when you move forward - we seem to be a more important community as you may think!

Laurent Hamels - STUDIO GRAND OUEST on 6 world stock agencies

My time is limited, as I'm sure yours is too.

Why not do it regardless how many additional licenses you sell?

I've thought about adding a feature to maintain keyword order to my Any Tag plugin. But it would take a fair amount of effort to work around various limitations of the LR SDK, and I'm pretty sure I would sell no more than a handful of additional licenses.

Is there no one who want to create/write a plugin for this? I believe that people want to pay for this also.

My suggestion is that a "Custom order" option should be added to the "Keyboarding" LR panel.

Entered keywords would be ordered alphabetically by default but the user would have the option to: overing the pointer on each keyword would highlight it and from that point clicking and dragging would automatically enable the "Custom order" and the keyword position would change according to position where the mouse click is released.

I believe it would be a easy feature to implement and that would solve all the users needs.