Can Lightroom sort by dimensions?

[Guest]

I'd like to either use Grid view sorted by dimensions, or create a Collection based on dimensions.  I can do this in Adobe Bridge, but thought Lightroom would add functionality to this. But I can't find it.

Thank you.

[Todd Shaner]

Did anyone try johnbeardy's ListView plugin?

[john beardsworth]

trshaner wrote:

Did anyone try johnbeardy's ListView plugin?

It will still have the alphanumeric sorting issue because Lightroom supplies the size data as text, but it's one click out to Excel and 3 or 4 keystrokes to convert the text to numbers. You can then sort and analyse to your heart's content.

John

[Todd Shaner]

Thanks John. I used to do sales tracking using Excel and the numerical data fields pulled in from the company's database program always had to be converted from text to numbers to do numerical sorts. So the issue is that the LR catalog database fields are text items, which can't be sorted numerically internal to LR.

Adobe Bridge is not a relational database application so numerical fields can be correctly sorted, but there are serious speed tradeoffs when sorting on a large number of image files.

http://thelightroomlab.com/2010/02/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-vs-the-adobe-bridge/

So we still don't have an Adobe application or plugin that can do "numerical sorts" on a large number of image files in a reasonable amount of time. I'm sure SQLite has the capability!

[john beardsworth]

Well, one way Lightroom supplies information to plugins is formatted as it appears in the UI, "10.5 MB" for example. So should the plugin strip out the formatting (in every language including Asian ones?), which may help sorting but then not correspond to the main LR UI? Can other fields be used - sometimes. Or strip out the formatting before sorting? Maybe that's the way I'll go, possibly on a field by field basis, but it's not as if there's great demand for it - and those who might want it are probably the types who love to dump all the data into Excel and swing it all around in pivot tables.

PS looking at the docs, LR offers fileSize as "formatted" and "raw". I'm currently using the former, but I may switch to the latter.