P: Ability to sync Smart Collections with Ecosystem Clients

[nycgeo]

Collection synching / Lightroom Mobile is a great addition to Lightroom 5.4. Please extend this functionality to Smart Collections as well.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Yes. Please add the ability to sync smart collections to LR Mobile in Lightroom CC Classic.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Please make a way to sync smart collections between devices. Even Apple has a robust way to sync smart albums (or smart playlists in iTuns for that matter). It's the only feature holding me back from taking an iPad with me while traveling instead of my heavy Macbook Pro.

[Just Shoot Me]

I haven't read the complete thread but if you aren't aware a smart collection is really a Filter that does not change and can't be turned off unless it is deleted. It really isn't a collection in the same way as normal collections.
So IMHO this will never happen. You can use a smart collection to Filter your catalog and then copy those filtered images into a standard collection and sync that with the mobile/web system.

[Guest]

This is by far my biggest issue with Adobe as a company. Publish a roadmap and if a feature doesn't make it while on the roadmap, explain why. Some people suggest Adobe can't because they're public traded but that is just not true. Many publicly traded companies publish roadmaps.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

C'mon Tom let's get this added!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Adobe hit a big foul ball on this one.  It's is like a telephone that doesn't let you dial the last digit - so close but without it, the whole thing is just plain useless.  Like Randy, I'm also paying for SmugMug to get a solution that should be Adobe > Adobe. 

C'mon guys, let's get this sorted out.

[JohanElzenga]

It won't happen. Adobe has said the Lightroom Classic won't get any new sync features, and if you had read the whole thread, you would have understood that it's not that easy at all either. Smart albums may some day be introduced, of course, but they won't sync with smart collections in Lr Classic.

Maybe this is a solution: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smart-collection-sync

[johnrellis]

Two plugins sync LR Classic smart collections with LR CC: Any Source and Smart-Collection Sync.

[johnrellis]

"Why wouldn't it happen?"

According to Victoria Bampton (Lightroom Queen), who is well-connected with Adobe, Adobe has decided that "no new cloud features will be added to Lightroom Classic". 

This topic is indeed the single most popular of all the feature requests here.  As the two previously mentioned plugins demonstrate, it's not hard to provide syncing of smart collections.

[MontyMontgomery]

My list is short:
Smart Collections!
What would you like to see in 2019?
Monty

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Not having Smart Collections in LR CC is a huge step backwards. How on Earth did Adobe decide this functionality was not worthy of inclusion from day one of CC? Please ge this fixed as a priority!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

for me it would be a great advantage to have a synchronization since most of my collection are "smart" due to locations, dates, tags, ...
and why can a company like Adobe not solve what a plugin can?
Regards

[julian_buitrago]

Ok, So this is what I do to get the most of the Sync capabilities of Lightroom and it works pretty well. Hope you like it.

I usually use this to select my favorites on the go and not have to be on my working station for so long.

1. I download all my raw files in my main device (iMac) with Lightroom Classic.

2. Create a smart collection that matches: Flagged and from a specific folder (My import file folder)

3. Create a cc Sync collection with all my photos from the project I am working on

-- At this point, I have all my photos in my cc devises as my iPhone and iPad

4. While in my bed, waiting rooms or wherever I have to wait, I pull out my phone or iPad and start flagging my favorites.

5. In the mobile devices, I filter by flagged and I can see my picks.

6. When I get home, I have my smart folder ready with only my selected photos to start working on.

7. If I have done any editing, it will be there too.

8. Export...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Smart collections are far more useful than regular ones. I agree this should have been on Lr CC from day one.

[étienneg80611604]

I totally agree. What kind of lazy ass reason do they have for not making smart collections syncable?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Yes plaece syncing Smart Collections would be a usefull possibillity.

[Antoine HLMN]

Up! Adobe, this is the most requested feature and it’s not even « under consideration ». 

[Markus-W]

I would like to sync not only collections but smart collections or just a bunch of marked pictures

[ERICUS]

Why is this still not resolved? Is anyone at Adobe reading this? It seems not that complicated to fix and would be very useful functionality to the Lightroom ecosystem

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Totally agree.  Wrong or right, my photos are separated by smart collections in my catalog.  Thus it would be very beneficial to sync smart collections. Why doesn't adobe Lightroom include this feature?  The lack of smart collections not syncing is very frustrating.  

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

wow three years ago this topic and it's not resolve yet! We need smart collections. I think a work around would be that all images  that are sync stay for some time  in the (all sync images) even if you change the condition that made that particular image to be in a smartcollection. So if you are working on the mobile version and un unpick the flag, the fotos is not any more in the smart collection, but this is not directly inked to the sync. then in the configuration one could choose for how long keep sync images that are not in a specific collection(orphan fotos lets say) these would exist only in a global all sync photos, but not inside any smart or normal synced collection.

[leolaps]

Voted!

[someone2]

I just thought:

Hey I can have a smart collection to view all the new photos from a photo shoot on a tablet as they come in (LR Classic gets live jpgs via WiFi ).

And now its a "no, its not going to work" 😞

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

this is a big bummer. I am just digging in deep with LRC and loving it but I need to ulpad smart collections to the cloud!

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

The sooner this feature is available the better