P: Enable the pick/reject flag, star rating & tag function for albums shared w collaborators

Way back in 2019, Adobe removed the ability to flag and rate images in a shared album in order to "support forthcoming improvements in sharing and collaboration."

Not knowing this because: why would I, I just stupidly handed off an album to my photo editor colleague, thinking it would be a fast way for us to collaborate on post production - and he can't see my flags or ratings. 

Here we are, four years later and it's still not possible to flag or rate images in a shared album in Lightroom.

I'm curious about the logic here. Ideally there's a way to collaborate on a project where someone else has permission to FLAG or RATE.  

Here are some posts asking for the same things:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-ideas/p-make-all-contributors-able-to-pick-flag-images/idi-p/12972572

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-discussions/lightroom-cloud-based-not-classic-shared-album-invitee-can-t-rate-photos/m-p/12355456

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/star-rating-in-shared-albums/m-p/13097134

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-ideas/p-enable-the-pick-reject-flag-star-rating-amp-tag-function-for-albums-shared-w-collaborators/idi-p/12342112

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-discussions/shared-albums-on-lightroom-cc-not-allowing-flags-or-stars/m-p/13110763

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-star-rate-images-in-shared-albums/idi-p/13096880

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-discussions/album-sharing-issues/m-p/12405270

This is a major issue for me. We have just upgraded to CC for teams to add a new member and make use of the collaborative tools advertised, meaning that I have gone from an individual subscription of around £40pcm to two subscriptions of £60+pcm (total cost £120+pcm) so that my assistant can manage my photos, but this is not an option, so now I get to pay 3 times the money and have to do all the work myself still. I was actually hoping for ratings and delete capability, but ratings would suffice.

Thank you for creating a feature request for this. Realising this would really help me in my workflow and step up my services to my clients!

Hi and thanks for reaching out to us with your concern.

This feature request has come to the team a couple of times and a ticket has been created for this to be worked on by our Engineers. Currently some other higher priority efforts are being taken carae of but this will be touched as soon as possible.

Regarads.

Kavita Srivastav

Adobe Quality Team

Thanks for you help !

When I share a catalog, even thought the guest can contribute by adding pictures or develop pictures, there is one thing he cannot do, he cannot change the star levels of the pictures.

This is a big issue because I would like others to help me rating my pictures, but this is impossible, even when I put "can edit and contribute". They can see the star levels of the pictures, but they cannot change it.

Can you please help me ? Is this a bug or I did something wrong ?

Thank you for helping,

Nicolas Frobert

Hi

We recently upgraded to enterprise so our teams could upload all weddings and share with our inhouse editor (as promised would work by Adobe support).  Then after we had to 4x our cost with additional licenses, we find out today that she is unable to cull the albums by using flag/pick or star features on any shared albums.  This is just crazy that this feature is not available at all and I am at a loss.  Can advice (other than going back to the old school way of exporting catalogs). 

We are sharing images from shoots with remote teams in Lightroom, although they can comment and like, it would be great to have the ability to have those with access to the albums to be able to star rate them.

Thanks,

Simon

I have shared some albums in Lightroom, and invitees can like or comment, but I don't see a way for them to star rate the images. It would be really helpful when selecting images remotely.

Am I missing something?

simon

When my colleague and I are working together in a shared album, it would be great if both of us would be able to pick / flag images, not just the one who created the shared album. This would improve our workflow so much. 

We can do every thing else in the shared album, why not this?