A view to a collection does not stay in its numerical position after a visit to another collection!

[.:tmas..]

Hi! Not using much Lightroom, mostly with PS, I'm surprised that when I make collections for arranging photos in their (sub)collections, I lose the position in the original/starting collection, that is, when I'm at the number 100 in the starting collection, and I get back after visiting a (sub)collection, I'm somewhere else in the starting collection, let's say at a photo 10. Very frustrating. Scrolling and trying to remember where I was, among some 1k photos. In other words, the collections do not appear to keep their views but they jump somewhere with no sense. What is this??? Regards, Tuomas

[JohanElzenga]

Yes, this is a known issue and something I asked Adobe to change. Unfortunately they never did. Usually you return to the first image however, not some random image.

[johnrellis]

You might find the Any Source plugin's Back and Forward commands useful. They go back and forward in the history of the current source (folder or collection), selection, and filter settings. So when you visit a subcollection, you can invoke the Back command to go back to the starting collection, with the photos previously selected again selected (and visible). I've got them assigned to Ctrl B and Ctrl F on my Mac.

[.:tmas..]

OK. I need to test it! Thanks!

[.:tmas..]

One more thing ... I was searching for an approach for making shortcuts for those actions in the plugin I was looking for: I need to say that Adobe seems to have made that a bit difficult.. I hope I can figure out the procedure. Moreover, I wonder why these important and needed shortcuts aren't already there in Ligtroom. Do you, folks, like to click constantly with mouse??? I don't.

[johnrellis]

"I was searching for an approach for making shortcuts for those actions in the plugin I was looking for"

It's straightforward on Mac: 

https://johnrellis.com/lightroom/anysource.htm#shortcuts

Lots of people use the Mac's System Settings to set menu shortcuts.

"I need to say that Adobe seems to have made that a bit difficult."

Indeed. The LR team has shown no interest in allowing users to customize keyboard shortcuts, even though it's one of the most popular unimplemented feature requests:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-allow-for-keyboard-shortcut-customization/i...

There are various imperfect workarounds: Mac System Settings, Windows Autohotkey, the Any Shortcut plugin, the Lrsuperkeys plugin, various MIDI controllers like Loupedeck.

[.:tmas..]

OK. I read the instructions: "Mac OS: You can use the standard mechanism for assigning application shortcuts to plugin menu commands. In System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts, select Adobe Lightroom."

[I need to say that I'm previously familiar with this approach]. However, I'm not capable of setting any shortcut this time. They obviously are not set and don't work. Fortunately, the commands work through dialogs 🙂 However, shortcuts would be nice as the path with mouse is quite long ...

[johnrellis]

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Make sure you enter three spaces and then the exact title of the command, including case:

The screenshot shows that the full name of the commands has been elided with "...", but you need to enter the full names.

[.:tmas.. · Accepted solution]

OK! I just had forgotten to put those 3 empty spaces - poor me. An additional surprise to me was - and I don't know if this is really true 😁 - that I didn't succeed in making one of the two shortcuts with my Logitech K380 keyboard 🤨 which I've found earlier to work unreliably in certain contexts. Using Apple's product the other shortcut also began functioning. Thanks, John!!!

[johnrellis]

Glad you got it resolved. It's really too bad that Adobe makes users go through these hoops.