P: Use caption for Facebook description

Can you add this feature, please? 

See a previous post about working around the bug with a third-party plugin. (It's clear that Adobe doesn't intend to fix the problem.)

I cannot believe Adobe has done nothing on this for 6 years. I have just switched from Aperture to Lightroom and get annoyed by this bug

I would also like this feature

IPTC Caption should be added.

You might consider this third-party Facebook plugin.  It provides lots of flexibility in how the Facebook description is set, including the use of LR's caption. The author has an excellent reputation for maintaining his plugins.

Before anyone complains, my suggestion isn't meant to diminish the desire to have Adobe fix this basic bug -- it's just a workaround for those tired of waiting years.

Please kindly add the feature that picks up the existing caption and adds it as facebook description when publishing the picture.

The idea is to concatenate IPTC Title + Caption and add it as Facebook Description field during publish action.

Thanks! 

Wow, this has been an open issue for 5 years? I can't see how it'd take more than an afternoon to fix this if you had the code in front of you...

Interesting workaround from FY, I'll try that out tonight 🙂

I've found Lightroom's Facebook upload support to be shoddy, to say the least.

I've worked with the Facebook API before, and I've never found the API to be unreliable like Lightroom's upload feature is. I'd love to see improved Facebook support in the next Lightroom version, which I believe would be as simple as rewriting the API code to use the latest APIs (and possibly a better http library).

Additionally, Facebook's photo title field now tends to be called "description" on their website. I'd like to be able to tell Lightroom to populate the description with the photo's caption metadata field.

Thank you for your consideration!

Currently the FB Publisher has a drop-down field that supports setting the Facebook "image title" (i.e. description) via one of "Filename", "IPTC Title", and "None". The correct IPTC field to use is Caption (a.k.a. "caption/abstract"). "Title" is intended as a shorthand reference, not the descriptive text. Worse, other services, such as Google Photos, use the correct field when auto-populating their captions, forcing us users of both services to have to do silly things, or use third party plugins in LR.

Since there's already a pulldown option for choosing, and you already support one IPTC field (the wrong one), why doesn't the FB Publisher to allow the user to select IPTC Caption as well?

Thanks!