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Is it possible to connect two different Lightroom catalogs to a single Backlight website?
As a web designer, I'd like to be able to upload an initial set of images from MY Lighroom catalog and allow my client to use HIS catalog to add more. We wouldn't be online simultaneously, but we'd both like to be able to upload images without having to disable either connection.
Alan
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Sure it's possible, but each catalog can only control the albums and album sets it creates.
So you can create albums with your catalog, but your client cannot add to that same album.
You can each publish albums and sets to the same Top-level gallery folder but you'll not be able to add albums to each other's sets
Rod
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ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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Hi Alan,
Best practice, the site should be managed from a single catalog. There's no way of syncing online changes back into Lightroom; it's just not in their API.
You could upload from separate catalogs into separate destination folders, but then you'd have a division between uploaded content, which might be awkward.
You can use the Lightroom Voyager plugin to migrate publish services from one catalog to another. I wouldn't use it to constantly move back and forth, but if you setup a site with some albums, you should be able to use the plugin to hand things off to the client's catalog when you're done. That's here:
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Hi Rob and Matthew,
It seems that the LRVoyager plugin will do the trick. Once I've set up a client's website, I probably wouldn't need to maintain access to the gallery anyway. It's nice to know that by using LRVoyager, I can create the gallery with a few images and then hand it over to my client to finish it.
Alan
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