P: Filter for Likes and Comments

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
December 2, 2014
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Now that Adobe is committing to LR Mobile, it would be great if LR had better support for comments and likes:

- Ability to filter and search in smart collections for comments and likes. The Sort: Last Comment Time is helpful but not sufficient -- it only works with collections synced with LR Cloud, and you can only sort one collection at time (huh??).

- The same support for other publish services like Flickr that also sync user comments. Why did Adobe implement Last Comment Time and comment notifications just for LR Mobile? The underlying structure is already there to implement it for the other services as well. These other services have a diversity of features that many users find valuable and that are unlikely to ever appear in LR Mobile, so asking them to switch to LR Mobile just to get the trivial ability to sort by comment time is frustrating.

- SDK access to the comments and likes, so that plugins can manipulate that metadata just like they have the ability to manipulate other metadata. Just providing SDK access would let plugin developers provide the other functionality.

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johnrellisAuthor

Legend

The Any Comment plugin makes comments and likes searchable within LR. It's not nearly as convenient as if the feature were built-in, but it's much better than nothing.

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Fred Moon

Participating Frequently

Really wish this feature would be implemented soon. I'm a big fan of Lightroom but at the moment the proofing process with my clients is painful and looks quite amateur.

In my current use of Lightroom it's the only feature I sincerely regret is missing.

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Fred Moon

Participating Frequently

I do the same. It's very dull and mind numbing, but seems to be the only way at the moment.

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rondamon2

Participant

ADOBE PLEASE DO SOMETHING

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Jihaad M

Participating Frequently

Activity & RAWS

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

What's adding to the annoyance of this bad, bad, BAD user experience is that you have to wait FIVE seconds for the yellow "new" comment added highlight to dismiss. So when you go through dozens and hundreds and thousands of liked photos just to get them marked as not-new it takes tens to hours of extra time and fking makes you mad.

Adobe likes to brag about their quarterly profits but I'd like them listening to us.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Exactly. Why allowing clients to favorite photos when there's no way to filter just those photos? Adobe takes our money but does nothing to put those resources to good use. This is bizarre.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

That's my workflow as well. This needs to be done. Fast. I'm paying every month, and been paying for years.

johnrellisAuthor

Legend

"But you can 'sort' by comment."

Note that you can only sort by Last Comment Time if you have exactly one synced collection selected. If you select more than one synced collection, or non-synced collections or folders, then bizarrely, LR won't show Last Comment Time as an option.

If you only have a couple of synced collections, then sorting by Last Comment Time is a reasonable workaround. But if you have lots of synced collections and lots of likes/favorites and comments, you might consider the Any Comment plugin.