Why is there a 'brick wall' between Featured Collections and Collections? It is killing me.

[Nils Larsen]

Hello,

I am new to RS and have high hopes for it and perhaps I am missing something.  I cannot figure out why there seems to be a 'brick wall' between Featured Collections and Collections in RS.

I am trying to learn and figure out the best way to do something that is beyond simple in applications like Lightroom and Capture One, namely selecting images from anywhere and adding them to a Collection or Featured Collection or nested collections (no available in RS I know).  The method "copy from" seems backwards to start, but I can get over that.  The problem is that I have a Collection (I made it public thinking that might help), and I have a bunch of Featured Collections, and I have my Collection as current, and I select "copy from collection", the drop down list of options for Collections to choose from does NOT show any of my Featured Collections!  To me that is bizarre and makes "copy from collection" useless.  This happens anywhere there is a drop down list of "Collections" to choose from, it never shows any of the Featured Collections. Why??

I will keep playing with it but I hope I can find an easy way for my users to be able to select images (individually, or select-all, or via filters or search results,) and add them to their collections of choice.  I have read the knowledge base help files and Google search results over and over and it seems so convoluted and non-intuitive.  I'll figure it out hopefully with some help from this group, but my users are not particularly tech savvy and clunky methods will be a problem.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Nils

[Frederick Yocum]

@Nils  While I can sympathize with your pain. I have never tried the process you are describing. Here is what I do when I want to copy resources into a Featured collection. Get the collection you want to add to into the collection bar and the one you aim to add from in the Main Window.

Get the collection that you want to add into the Collection Bar. 

• If it is a Featured collection, navigate to the collection in the Main Window and choose “Select collection” from the Main Window Actions menu.
  
• If it is a Public collection, navigate to it by going to your Manage Collection page and accessing the Public collections at the bottom of the page.
  
• If it is a private collection, select it in the usual way.

With the collection you intend to add to now in the Collection bar, navigate in the Main Window to the collection from which you would like to copy.

• For Private collections, use the Manage collection page to open the collection in the Main Window. You can find the Manage collection page under your profile.
  
• For Public or Featured collections, navigate to collection as described above.
  

With the collection you want to copy to in the Collection Bar and the collection you want to copy from in the Main Window.

• Choose “Save results to collection” in the Main Window Action menu, to add all the resources in a collection.
  
• To copy some resources in the Main Window, select them using the checkbox on the thumbnail and select “Add Selected to Collection” from the Actions Menu in the Main Window.

This seems long-winded and fussy until you’ve done it twenty or thirty times. Bookmark the private and public collections pages on your website for faster access, if you are doing this often.

When a private collection becomes a Featured Collection or a Public Collection, they are no longer owned in the same way as a private collection. 

I hope this helps or at least gives you a way forward.