P: Sorting photos in shared album

But this still doesn't change anything about the view on the shared link.

Ok it does change stuff, (took a while for the browser to refresh) but its still not what it states, just a different way of garbled up mess. 

I did "date of capture" reversed that, and ended up with a strange pattern where every first picture is sorted by "newest first" and every second is "last first". And a few that are completely random.

The view on the shared link does not mirror what is seen in "display tab".

Donna, this is the "Display Tab", indicated left (hover over it, it will tell you that). When it's selected the display tool box appears, click on the up arrow to expand the options.



When you do that, this is what you will see:



At the bottom you have the Reorder options, use the drop down arrow to select your preferred option, and you will also see at the bottom of the list the option to "Reverse Order".

Thanks for trying to help, Jim! I have the same problem as Donna. I just tried it with the lightroom browser application. As soon as you are in the custom order view, no automatic sorting is available. And it doesn't take over the last automatic sorting setting.

In my case I want to have the newest pictures on top of the shared album. But when I click on "custom order", the standard setting is that the oldest picture is on top. So I'd have to manually sort hundreds of pictures. The reverse order option is greyed out and not available.

EDIT: forgot what I said, just tried method one and it worked. Sorry, haven't switched to the Display tab. Thanks!

@774596: the display tab is in the bottom row, where you can set how the pictures should be shown (in squares next to each other, adapted etc.)

Well I'm not using LR CC Desktop because that craps up my c: drive with unmovable temp files.

So its LR web.
I have no idea what you mean by "display tab" but I'm in the shared album, the sorting options are at the bottom left. We both know only "custom order" has any effect on how its viewed via the web link. I don't see any option to force automatic  reordering of the "custom order", and as I said rearranging them manually is no option. So I don't see your point.

I've tested both of the methods which I outlined in response to the specific issue raised by @7723345 above, so I don't really understand what you mean here. Perhaps you could explain exactly what you are trying to achieve, and how you are trying to do it (what app, what methods), then I'd be happy to try to help.

No "reverse order" has no effect only the "custom order" does, I'm not not resorting hundreds of photos manually every time I add something new.

In order to make a change to the way that the viewer sees the album, it's necessary to ensure that the album's Custom Order is setup to display your images in the order that you want them displayed. If you have previously set a specific Custom Order, or if the default Custom Order (I believe that would be Capture Time oldest first) needs to be reversed, that Custom Order needs to be changed. There are two ways of doing that:

1. Use the LrWeb app, select the album, select the Display Tab, expand the design tools box bottom centre of the grid, use the Revert Order option to select the desired order (e.g. Capture Time), and choose Reverse Order as needed.

2. Using Lightroom desktop app (can't do it in LrMobile, I don't think), select the album, grid view, sort order = Capture Date, and use the Reverse Order button if needed to get your preferred chronological order. Then drag the first image out of position, e.g. make it the second image. That single change will change the sort order to Custom Order, and resets any existing Custom Order to be the same as the way you had it in Capture Time order (with that one change). All you now need to do is drag the first image back into position and you're done. Obviously that wouldn't normally be necessary if you've never previously set a Custom Order, but it is needed if you want to reverse the chronological order (as there's no option to reverse a custom order, which sort of makes sense).

Is this still an issue? I'd like to sort the shared albums in a way that the people I share it to, see it in the intended order (and I don't want to sort hundreds of pictures manually).

E.g. right now it shows in a chronological order in the shared web view. I want to reverse that chronological order. If I do that in my album view in LR mobile or LR desktop (win10) nothing changes in the shared album web view. Any workaround?

Is there any news on a fix for this? Chat support acknowledged it as not working. Best solution would be to give the webviewer its own sorting options (that then actually work).

You should contact support, insist there is a problem, prove it with screenshots, they have to know its relevant.