P: Increase the number of cells in the Keyword Set

My last answer was meant to be an anwer for @TiggerCWP .

Regarding the main topic I still support this feature request, as I would use it for other scenarios.

(applying specific category and situation tags, not people names. Doing this by mouse or keyboard shortcut would be way more efficent than code replacement by third party software as I don't want to select the keyword input field first each time.)

For this scenario I use additional software (Phrase Express) that enables me to import lists of text fragments and shortcodes (e.g. player names and their numbers with some prefix as shortcode). Later on I can type in the shortcode wherever I want and the software replaces it with the text/name. It's not integrated with Lightroom in any way but instead emulates keystrokes on system level. Works quite well.

My somewhat clumsy workaround for sports is I made numeric keywords 1-99 and in Grid View I painstakingly apply them to the images, but only for the players that are clearly the 'subject' of each photo. That's why in another post I mentioned how nice it would be if LR could somehow treat numbers like faces, with a 'subject' restriction. 

I shoot marathons for Marathon Photos and they have software that recognizes bib numbers, as well as hat, shirt and pant colors. Their photos are 'theirs' so I don't need it for that but I also shoot local district events and it would really be handy if LR's 'recognition' could include obvious numbers.

I am a sports photographer and use keywords to identify players (Facial recognition spends too much time trying to identify blurred people in the crowd to be useful).  But rosters are larger than 9 players.  It would really help me to be able to put the entire roster of a team in as keywords.  It would save me so much time.  

Does someone else have a work around they suggest?

Thanks!

I totally agree with having more than a 9 keyword limit. Interesting that in the last 12 years this hasn't been addressed. 

It kind of goes along with the fact that of all the editing plugins available for Lightroom, ONLY Photoshop is incapable of pre-selecting the format desired for the edit and then adding the jpeg to Lightroom if jpeg is chosen. Blows me away every time I have to struggle with that.

@Rikk Hi Rikk, I can't find the comment you mention the 'official answer' can you please send me a link?

Also this is an old request now, don't you think we need it? It's an obvious and essential improvement for photographers  😉

This thread is being merged into an existing authoritative thread for better tracking and response. Please review the official answer (if any) in the second post on the thread for more information. 

Is it possible to create much bigger custom keyword grid sets AND also make them floating windows so I can edit faster and do a lot of repetitive keywording. A bit like customising Photoshops layout. I'd like to be able to have several grids of say 18/36 or more grids of frequently used keywords in sets so I can have few side by side eg. One that has common ingesting keywords for a project and another that may have random touchy feely descriptions etc etc