P: When selecting a collapsed stack, provide option to apply changes to all photos in the stack

When adding a flag to a stack it only goes to the first photos. The remaining photos are still unflagged.
Please add an option to add flag / color /  stars / etc. to an actual stack. Eg. so if it's a stack of 7 photos, all 7 photos get flagged.
Similarly add option to paste adjustment to the stack of photos not just the first one.
Reason: It's difficult at the moment to work with groups of stacks of photos and every stack requires different editing.
Thanks.

Shift-click the badge helped me a lot.  Thank you.

Also, to the other folks watching this thread: it might help if "we" provided a suggested method of implementing what we are wanting.  Should it be that always when you pick a collapsed stack that all modifications apply to all of the images?  Or perhaps if the user double clicks?  Or perhaps if the user option clicks on the badge?  Another thought is the first shift click on the badge selects all the images but does not expand the stack.  The second shift click would expand the stack.

There are many options I suppose...

I was wondering if it would be possible or if I am overlooking something here... if I stack a group of similar images or virtual images etc. When I select that group ( collapsed ) in Library and I add a keyword, I expect it to apply to all images in that stack but it does not. It only applies to the top selected image. I can understand if you have the stack expanded and only select one of the images that this would be the behavior but to me, it makes sense when collapsed and you select the group as a whole that the keywords apply to all images within the stack. A stack is a grouping that should make it easy to apply many functions at once to the whole if selecting the stack while collapsed. Currently you have to expand the stack, select all the images with shift click then add the keyword(s). Thank you for you time.

My prior post is solution 3 in the following article which I wrote a couple of years ago

https://www.danhartfordphoto.com/blog/2022/4/lr014-lrc-tip01-all-photos-really

Seeing as how Adobe has no interest in addressing this issue here is a quick workaround.

1)  Create an empty collection

2)  when you have whatever "source" you are using (e.g. one or more folder, All Photographs, Etc/), use <Ctrl+Click (win)/<cmd>+click (Mac) to add the "Empty Collection" to whatever source you already had.

Now, all images in the selected source(s) are shown regardless of their stack participation.  If you already had the tops of collapsed stacks selecte, they will stillo be selected making the stacks easier to find.  But, you will still have to select the other images in the stack.   

I rarely use stacks but just stacked sets of drone photos so that I could edit each day of photos separately. I assumed selecting a stack would let me edit the entire stack at once. I was surprised when I discovered that's not the case. What exactly is the reason for limiting edits to the "top" of the stack which happens to be the first photo? I saw that some posters said this workflow makes sense. What workflow automatically assumes the first photo in a set is the only one you want to edit?

Expanding a stack, selecting the photos carefully limiting the selectio to the stack, and then editing is unnecessarily labor intensive. Adobe should add a "sync stack" option.

"I can't believe Adobe hasn't addressed this yet."

Worse, they've marked it Idea: Declined at the bottom of the first post.  They rarely mark Ideas as Declined.

I can't believe Adobe hasn't addressed this yet.  I use film simulation bracketing and only want to keep one out of a group of photos - if I want to reject a stack I want to reject the whole thing, not just the first image.  I will say that the Syncomatic plugin suggested earlier works GREAT and I'm happily paid for that as it sped up my workflow significantly.

Why conversations get merged: 

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-auto-import-to-folders-organized-by-date/5f5f44f14b561a3d422ab0ba?commentId=5f5f48984b561a3d422bdf45 

You could use John Beardsworth's SYNCOMATIC plugin to sync the metatada and edits to the rest of the stack. It has a few minor glitches/bugs I reported that don't affect the sync data but it works great.

http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/lightroom/syncomatic/