P: Enable the pick/reject flag, star rating & tag function for albums shared w collaborators

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Insert the possibility for collaborators to be able to use the V (selected) and X (reject) flags in the shared photos and also the star rating. Additionally, contributors can't use tags in shared albums.
It is very important that these possibilities are active because it helps to work the photographs faster between the various teams to which the photo albums have been shared.

[Marcela Outside]

Hello Adobe Team,

I have been utilizing the shared album feature to collaborate with other photographers and share our images. However, I've noticed that contributors are currently unable to rate, flag, or remove photos within the shared album. It would greatly enhance the organization of our photos if these functionalities were available to contributors.

Additionally, I have come across another issue regarding the import process. Currently, there is no option to filter files while importing, such as separating JPEGs and RAW files, which can make it challenging to import only one format type without any difficulties.

Thank you for considering this suggestion to improve the importing functionality.

[Roy29800973r9hj]

Are there any updates concerning this issue? It has been some time since it has been requested.

[karol_adam_sokolowski]

1 year later...... still can't rate and flag in..... time to serch another apllication???

[benjaming35242555]

I'm paying the extra >40% for the "collaborative Teams experience" and getting none of it. Lots of app problems. Lightroom in particular seems to have been completely forgotten by Adobe. There's nothing collaborative about it. Other members of the team cannot operate my albums. Images have to be exported to be able to use them anywhere. There are other editing gallery programs that are much more versatile. Really not good value.

[benjaming35242555]

Hey @Kavita Srivastav do you know if this ever made any progress? An update would be much appreciated.

[benjaming35242555]

Thanks for responding. This would definitely be a great improvement to collaborative team working!

[Lisa36065257uepa]

come on... it has been 4 years since you guys promised to fix it. it's a simple code to implement. fix it

[bob15A8]

Its insane this simple yet massively useful feature is not availible. 

I suggest to everyone to start using Google Drive or Dropbox, collaboration tools with adobe get a 0/10.

[jetlagstudio]

Truly insane. There has been no work to any of the collaborative tools in years.

[Peter Kremmer]

2 ways Adobe could make life MUCH easier for Lightroom users who wish to collaborate:

1.) Ability to STAR and FLAG photos in shared Album

Currently if I share an album with someone she can't star or flag the photos. I can not comprehend the reason for that as a bulk part of the job of photographers is to select the good photos. Why can't I share an album and ask a collegue or collaborator to review and select photos?

2.) Ability to share FOLDERS and not just Albums

I dont understand why it is not possible to share an entire folder with multiple albums in it. This is also useful when you categorize a lot of photos into different albums, but you want to share the entire project with someone. 

It seems 2 very minor change on Adobe's side that would help collaboration a lot.

[Jan5FBF]

I'm working as a freelance photographer and just had a shooting für an agency. I imported the pictures into my lightroom (classic), synced up the albums with adobe cloud and then shared them from lightroom (cloud) with the adobe-id of the agency's people. In the sharing settings i selected that they can even edit the pictures, not just look at them. now it turns out - they can not rate them? they can just highlight favorites but they can not set star-ratings? so they can actually edit the pictures, do whatever they like, but the can not rate them? what is going on here?

[JohanElzenga]

No, editing and changing metadata are two different things. You can allow them to edit shared photos, but not change ratings. The latter is simply not supported, so perhaps you should file this as a feature request in the 'Ideas' section.

[Leap874]

This is a very important functionality for collaborative workflows to make sense. Please implement this ASAP.

[0800-grizzly]

Hi,

We're testing how to build outsourced editing workflows with Lightroom, looking at moving away from LrC + Google Drive cooperation.

We hoped to use a combination of stars and picked/rejected flags to communicate which edited images would be ready, and which would perhaps be "sent" back for re-editing. This since Lightroom lacks proper and robust tools for this process (which I find very surprising).

To my surprise the editor to whom I shared an album couldn't change the stars or picked/rejected flags.

Looking at old Google results, this feature seems to have been lacking many years ago, but is it really still lacking? Can we not have those we share images with make their own ratings and choices?

If no, what workarounds have you found that support a distributed, outsourced editing, workflow?

Rgds,

Björn

[szymon_5776]

As a designer and photographer at a company, I understand that we sometimes make design mistakes due to oversight. This is one of those mistakes by Adobe that I and every other designer and freelancer kindly request Adobe developers fix.

I commonly share my albums with my director, he then has to select photos for retouching and whatnot.

However, because he cannot give stars or points in shared albums, I get asked to actually not share the album, but instead send the exports. He then sends back the file names he selected, and then I have to find those photos in lighroom because he couldn't select them from the start.

It's a programing task that takes no more than a day. I kindly ask one developer to put in a few hours to improve the user friendliness of Adobe Lighroom.

Thank you.

[benjaming35242555]

To put this another way - if ANYONE from Adobe is listening - IF the ability to delete/rate/flag items was made available within teams and organisations, that would just about satisfy what should be the basic functionality of any current, cloud-based software, but if this functionality could be shared with clients too, then Lightroom would surely have everything the market needs without us all having to use other brands of software to complete our projects??

[Jim Wilde]

@szymon_5776 

Have you considered using the Collaborative Proofing tool, which is available as a Technology Preview option in the LrWeb browser app? It would allow you to send a special link for the album to your director, who would then be able to select their preferred images (you can also optionally set a maximum number of selections that the end user can make). Once the selections are made, they appear back in the album's Collaborative Proofing view in your LrWeb app, where you can filter the selections by user and then you can make an album (for each user) of just their selections, which makes it easier to subsequently focus your work on just the selections.

Yes, you still can't apply ratings.....but in the specific use case that you outlined you might find the Collaborative Proofing option is even easier to use once you have familiarised yourself with the way it works.

[tobiasphoto]

Just wanting to add to the body of comments supporting this feature to be added to Lightroom. It makes no sense to me that this isn't possible and seems like a simple fix. I only realized it when the person I'm co-editing with said she couldn't flag/rate any of the photos, so we can't actually collaborate very easily!

[Lindsay29623642v7cy]

I'm hoping this request gets more traction... Because this is the only thing keeping me from getting more licenses to expand my team to edit photos and collaborate on shared albums! We need the ability for contributors to flag/rate photos as well as the album owner! It would be a huge improvement! We're searching outside of Lightroom now for a fix for this so please, however I'd rather not have to.

[szymon_5776]

When will this feature, that takes no more than a day of coding, be finally added?