Publish collection auto-advance bug?

[bhousto90]

I have been experiencing a bug? for some time when using library filtering in a Publish Collection and the resulting photo auto-advance if an item gets removed from view after metadata modification.

To replicate it:

Create a Publish collection (Hard drive, Flickr or Zenfolio etc.)

Place 5 or more photos in this collection.

Apply an identical rating, color label or keyword to at least of the 4 photos

Use a library filter to display just the photos that match the above.

So, then I have for example 4 photos A,B,C,D (each rated 2 stars) that are displayed in the filtered publish collection.

If I change the rating of photo A to have a single star,

Photo A gets removed from the display and selected photo in LR then auto-advances to photo C instead of the expected photo B.

(It moves 2 positions forward instead of 1)

I have repeated this in LIghtroom 4.4, 5.71 and CC2015.9 on my desktop (Win7) and also with LR C2015.8 on my laptop (Win10).

The behavior does not change with the Auto-advance menu setting checked or not or with CAPS Lock on/off

I have also tried resetting LR preferences and using new/different catalogs.

However, without any LR setting changes it works as expected to advance only 1 photo forward if you repeat this using a regular collection or file folder with the same photos/library filter criteria.

Can anyone else replicate this? I opened a bug report several years back to report it but at the time it was not repeatable.

Lightroom: Rating change filtered autoadvance issue in Publish service | Photoshop Family Customer C...

If you can repeat this yourself, please add your vote/comment in this bug report.

It looks like "get next photo index#" is being queried after the changed item is removed from the library filter view and not before.

-bh

[Akash Sharma]

Hi Bh,

As you mentioned, Your issue has already been reported here Lightroom: Rating change filtered autoadvance issue in Publish service | Photoshop Family Customer C... and our Engineers are looking into it.

Thanks,

Akash

[Bob Somrak]

Akash,

Rikk Flohr was unable to reproduce the problem in that thread and there was no acknowledgement from Adobe that they were aware of a problem.  I did NOT try to duplicate the problem.

[bhousto90]

I am going to try to post a video showing the problem in the next day or so.

As I indicated above I can reproduce the problem on 2 computers with different catalogs and using different versions of Lightroom.

And have reset preferences with no effect.

[Bob Somrak]

It would be a good idea to post the video on your original thread from 3 years ago too and reply DIRECTLY to Rikk Flohr.  I am almost sure Adobe is not working on this problem if it is a bug. They don't even fix problems they acknowledge and this one wasn't acknowledged.

[bhousto90]

I added a screen cast showing the issue to the original problem report:

Lightroom: Rating change filtered autoadvance issue in Publish service | Photoshop Family Customer C...

-BH

[bhousto90 · Accepted solution]

Rikk Flohr acknowledged this as a bug on the feedback site.