P: Sorting photos in shared album

[chaarrliie]

It's driving me mad...

I open Lightroom web, go on my album, go in the Display tab, choose "sort by Date taken", then "invert order", so the photos are displayed like I want them to, the most recent ones at first. 

Then I got on the shared album link, and they are absolutely not displayed by most recent...
Why?!

[Jim Wilde]

I'm not really understanding your description of the problem. Whatever order is currently displayed using the Display tab (the "mixing pallette" symbol) in your LR Web application is what your user should be seeing. If that's not the case (i.e. the user is still seeing a different order, even after refreshing their browser), then clearly there's a problem, which will need Adobe to investigate.
Note that when using that Display tab you have the option to drag and drop images into any manual custom order, OR you can reset any existing custom order into one of several different sort options (Capture Date, Filename, Rating, etc.), by using the "Revert" option in the expanded settings dialog. When you make any changes the new order will become the new "custom order" when you subsequently use that sorting option in any of the other client apps, and it will be the order that your user should see after refreshing their browser.

[evikne71]

I'm afraid there is no change. I don't use the web sharing anymore because of this. 

In my case the entire web sync process has stopped as well. LR Classic hasn't uploaded photos at all for a long time. 

[CS-CC]

This should be announced in the dialoge within LR classic.  Some sort of link out to the helpx.

[cliffclof]

This is a major problem.   Sorting needs to be fixed ASAP.  I am having this same problem.   The workarounds don't work.  If I sort a shared album it either needs to update or have a button that "re-sorts" for the public album.

[marcos17773225]

When I use the LrWeb app, and select the Display Tab to order by Capture Time, and choose Reverse Order - it works as expected. So the most recent photos are displayed first.

But when I then add other, newer photos to this same album, they are always added at the end in de Web view. They are displayed in the correct order in LrCC (Windows and Android), but not on the "web page" that I shared with others.

Every time I add photos to this shared album, I have to open it in the LrWeb app, change the order in the display settings to something else, and then change it back to Capture Time - Reverse Order.

As explained, in LrCC (Windows and Android) the order for this album is also Capture Time - Reverse Order. And whenever I add photos to this album, those photos are correctly displayed at the top. But not in the Web View, accessed by the shared link - there those new photos appear at the bottom.

[Jim Wilde]

When I use the LrWeb app, and select the Display Tab to order by Capture Time, and choose Reverse Order - it works as expected. So the most recent photos are displayed first.

But when I then add other, newer photos to this same album, they are always added at the end in de Web view. They are displayed in the correct order in LrCC (Windows and Android), but not on the "web page" that I shared with others.

Every time I add photos to this shared album, I have to open it in the LrWeb app, change the order in the display settings to something else, and then change it back to Capture Time - Reverse Order.

As explained, in LrCC (Windows and Android) the order for this album is also Capture Time - Reverse Order. And whenever I add photos to this album, those photos are correctly displayed at the top. But not in the Web View, accessed by the shared link - there those new photos appear at the bottom.

You are likely misunderstanding what is happening here. The basic issue is that LrWeb only ever displays a shared album to the end-viewer in the currently set Custom Order. Whilst there is an option in the LrWeb Display tab to "re-order" the current album into a different order based on certain criteria, all that is doing is a one time change of the Custom Order. Subsequently adding new images to the album will always show them at the end of the album, there really is no other option when we are restricted to a Custom Order display. You say that the Lightroom Desktop or Mobile apps will show the new additions in the "correct" capture date reversed sequence, but that is because your SORT order in those apps is set to display the album in that capture date order. If you changed the sort order in those apps to "Custom Order" you will see exactly the same order that the shared album viewers would see.....the simple issue is that all the Lightroom apps have multiple choices for "sort order", but the viewer of shared albums has no such options, and the album is displayed in whatever is currently set for Custom Order. 

The optimum solution of course would be to add those same sort order display options to the viewer of shared albums, which is probably a long-standing feature request so finding that and adding your vote would maybe help Adobe consider providing that functionality.

[CS-CC]

I think Adobe has likely misunderstood how it's users use the application.   Make sort work intuitively....  Problem solved.

[CS-CC]

Its - *Why is there no edit button here*

[Giacomo_Vaccarello7826]

hi,

i have the application lightroom, lightroom classic, mobile where i can sort the album by file name. why when i share it reorder it by date and o cannot change that please ?

regards,

giacomo

[David_Illig]

On the computer desktop I keep my photos in the order of newest at the top. When I share the album they show in reverse order—oldest photos at the top, newest at the bottom. This regardless of the sort settings that I choose at the bottom of the page. Help!

"Lightroom Cloud," or, as Adobe calls it, "Adobe Lightroom".