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December 2, 2014
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P: Filter for Likes and Comments

  • 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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    Arnie47
    Known Participant
    November 1, 2016
    Yep, this is the functionality that I would expect from a cloud based gallery in a program you pay about fees for.
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    martinl68902366
    Known Participant
    October 31, 2016
    Hi Marc, 
    Have a look on Evlaa, you should like it 🙂
    ironchef_marc
    ironchef_marc
    Inspiring
    October 31, 2016
    Yes please, better functionality of sharing galleries and receiving feedback from clients (seeing and sorting likes) would be much appreciated and long overdue and should be an essential part of cloud.
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    martinl68902366
    Known Participant
    October 3, 2016
    Agree with all of that comments. 

    Would be really useful to be able to filter and see the commented photos. 
    We build Evlaa exactly for that purpose : Simplify the photos selection with a client. 

    They are able to rate and comment the photos and we can retrieve these directly in Lightroom. 
    But for the comments, we are not able to filter, so it's a bit hard for the users to see them. 

    As a work-around, we send an email when a selection is done with all the comments and ratings like that we can have a good view of what photos are commented. 

    Feel free to have a look on Evlaa and let me know what do you think about. 
    Martin
    johnrellis
    johnrellisAuthor
    Legend
    August 23, 2016
    "It would be terrific to have an easy way on LR desktop and LR mobile/online to filter for photos that have been selected as favorites and/or commented upon in LR Mobile or on the web interface for photos sync'd to LR Mobile."

    To quickly find photos with recent comments/likes in a single synced collection: In the Collections panel, select a collection synced with LR Mobile/Web. Then do View > Sort > Last Comment Time.

    Unfortunately, you can't select more than one collection and then sort by last comment time (silly LR restriction).

    For more flexibility in dealing with comments and likes, see the Any Comment plugin.
    marko91179374
    marko91179374
    Participant
    August 23, 2016


    It would be terrific to have an easy way on LR desktop and LR mobile/online to filter for photos that have been selected as favorites and/or commented upon in LR Mobile or on the web interface for photos sync'd to LR Mobile. 
    Having just finished a 30-minute conversation with an Adobe tech, there is a very inelegant way to do this using Metadata (on LR desktop) to create a smart collection, but it was not entirely accurate in any of the three tests I did. 
    Best case would be to have simple filtering buttons (on all the LR interfaces: desktop, web, mobile) - similar to Flagged, Unflagged and Rejected - for those photos that have been "favorited" or commented upon. 
    This filtering would be EXTREMELY useful to the photographer, but I can also see it being helpful functionality for clients, as well. For example, if I limit a client to 20 selects from a take, and they make those selects using either comments or favorites (or both), there is no simple way for them to see, at any point, how many photos they've chosen, unless the scroll thru every photo in the collection and keep some kind of tally sheet.
    Thank you for your consideration and I will hope to see this functionality in a future upgrade. 
      johnrellis
      johnrellisAuthor
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      August 23, 2016


      Why can't you sort Library Grid view by Last Comment Time when more than one mobile-synced collection is selected? Seems like a silly restriction that wasn't deliberate.

      Use case: A user has many mobile collections and wants to quickly deal with all the recent comments and likes. She has to tediously select each mobile collection in turn and select Sort: Last Comment Time.
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        FeedbackCommunityMember
        Inspiring
        March 7, 2016
        With 75 synchronized collections and almost 9000 images, i'm very glad not to have to check these manually for comments (likes)....
        Thanks John!
        johnrellis
        johnrellisAuthor
        Legend
        March 6, 2016
        Sterling, please send email to the support email address with details of what you've tried: http://www.johnrellis.com/lightroom/anycomment.htm#support
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        sterlingsteves
        Known Participant
        March 6, 2016
        Thank you for addressing this issue. I hate to be a noob but I can't figure out how to install it???? Sorry, I tried.
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