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Jeff A. Goulden
Jeff A. Goulden
Inspiring
December 23, 2022
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How to Control Sorting of Adobe Web Galleries

  • December 23, 2022
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I like to create web galleries from Lightroom collections.  The process is simple and easy to create the galleries by making the Lightroom collection public.  The problem I have is that I don't know how to sort the galleries once they are on the web.  Changing the order of the Lightroom collection doesn't affect the order of the web gallery at all.  Does anyone know how to sort these web galleries.  Here's an example web gallery at https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/0f4b5032f2834cfdbcabb1e7b31a2c16.  The picture below is a the same photos in the original Lightroom collection.

    Correct answer Oregon Coast Mike

    The answer here is correct.  LRC controls the sort order and synch will reoderer any public web collections.   (eventually).   But, be aware, that if you use the "View on Web" feature within the LRC Collections menu that the Web Collection does not honor the LRC custom sequence!  Rather, it displays the collection in date sequence by default.   As the author says, the link to the public collections will honor the custom sort.  

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    Oregon Coast MikeCorrect answer
    Participant
    December 31, 2024

    The answer here is correct.  LRC controls the sort order and synch will reoderer any public web collections.   (eventually).   But, be aware, that if you use the "View on Web" feature within the LRC Collections menu that the Web Collection does not honor the LRC custom sequence!  Rather, it displays the collection in date sequence by default.   As the author says, the link to the public collections will honor the custom sort.  

      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Legend
      December 23, 2022

      It seems to be a confusing mess.

       

      Viewers of a shared Lightroom Cloud album don't have any control over the ordering.

       

      According to this post, LR Web always displays photos in Custom Order (initially set from the current order when you synced the LR Classic collection).  Changes to custom order in LR Classic, LR Web, or LR Desktop will be synced to the shared album, but changes in ordering mode (e.g. from Custom to Capture Date or Reverse Order) won't be synced.

       

      If you want to reset the custom ordering to, say, Capture Date, go to LR Web, select the shared album, click the sorting button:

       

      This just sets the current custom order to whatever ordering you select, it doesn't keep the album sorted in that order when you add new photos.

      Jeff A. Goulden
      Jeff A. GouldenAuthor
      Inspiring
      December 23, 2022
      Hi John,



      Thanks for responding. That information is definitely confusing and not at
      all correct based on my experience. It doesn't matter what order the LR
      collection is. When I make it public and look at it on the web, the order
      of pics is completely random. When I add photos to the collection in
      Lightroom it seems to always add them to the end of the web gallery.





      Jeff Goulden Photography

      Nature, Wildlife and Landscape Photography

      <> www.JeffGouldenPhotography.com

      Phone: (253) 691-9258
      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Legend
      December 23, 2022

      [This post contains formatting and embedded images that don't appear in email. View the post in your Web browser.]

       

      "When I add photos to the collection in Lightroom it seems to always add them to the end of the web gallery."

       

      Right, that's what's described in that post: "Subsequently adding new images to the album will always show them at the end of the album". When you add photos to a LRC collection, they are added to the end of the current custom ordering of that collection, and that custom ordering gets synced to LR Web.

       

      Overall, that post matches my own testing. Let's figure out what's going on in your case.  Try this:

       

      1. In LR Classic, make a collection with four photos.  

       

      2. Do View > Sort > Custom, and adjust the order to something different than that displayed.

       

      3. Sync the collection to LR Cloud.

       

      4. Do Make Public in the upper-right of LRC and click the link.

       

      5. Observe the order of the shared album in the web browser. When I do it, it matches the order displayed in LR :

       

      6. Change the custom ordering in the LRC collection and wait for the changes to sync.

       

      7. Click the shared link and refresh the browser. It sometimes takes a couple minutes for the changed order to show up:

       

      GoldingD
      GoldingD
      Legend
      December 23, 2022

      Probably from within the gallery, not from within LrC.

      see:

      Create web galleries| Adobe

      and from that, see:

      Work with web gallery layouts| Adobe

       

      Jeff A. Goulden
      Jeff A. GouldenAuthor
      Inspiring
      December 23, 2022
      Thanks for the response. These articles refer to creating a page using the
      Lightroom Classic "Web" module. I'm not using the Web module. I'm just
      taking a Lightroom collection and making it public. This creates a web
      page, with a unique URL, using the collection. My problem is I don't see a
      way to sort the photos on the web page. Changing the order of the
      collection in Lightroom Classic has no affect on the web page.





      Jeff Goulden Photography

      Nature, Wildlife and Landscape Photography

      <> www.JeffGouldenPhotography.com

      Phone: (253) 691-9258
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