P: Limit Smart Collections to a Collection or Collection Set

To create a Smart Set to show only items from a Collection Set;

1. Select all images in the Collection Set
2. Assign a unique Keyword such as collection-set-name-cs
3. Create smart set based the unique -cs keyword (from step 2)

Not having this feature makes it incredibly hard to create smart collections to use as portfolio/slideshows.

It is possible with keywords but very easy to get wrong.

But NOT to a smart collection.

By the way my comment was directed at Rikk Flohr not Dennis Monk if that isn't apparent by the way this forum displays hierarchy of the conversation (it isn't clear by the way).

This doesn't work for me. I want smart collections (ratings) to reference a capture smart collection (which is referencing a specific folder for a specific shoot) . capture is inside a collection set (with the name of the shoot).

The idea is to make a default set which I can easily duplicate (and rename to the shoot name) at the start of a new shoot (often onsite when ingesting files so I don't have time to mess around) and then all I have to do is point the capture smart collection at the correct folder on disk (or even have it search for today if there is only one shoot, and change it later). Each of the other smart folders in my default set collection — for editing my selections (0 stars, 1 star, 2 star, rejected etc.) — look inside capture but of course as it is they look inside the entire library and all of the other capture smart collections in all of the other projects.

Yes I can limit capture by 

Choose Source>Collection

but that doesn't help one bit since capture needs to look in a folder, and the other rating smart collections in my set (shoot) have to look inside capture. The top level set only exists for organisational purposes. The only way to do it is change each smart collection in the set manually to look in the specific folder I am importing into for that shoot. And since duplicating a collection set doesn't work properly either: the nested sets/collections don't stay inside the newly duplicated set so I have to manually put it back together, it ends up being a much longer process to set up a project for editing.

Surely limiting a search to one specific collection set is a pretty basic thing to implement. I just saw a demo for a sky replacement system in photoshop, if they can do that then adding search filter is a piece of cake.

This is an increasingly annoying problem for me. The criteria I have to use to work around this limitation get lengthier and lengthier as I have more collections and collection sets. Please fix it.

How do I set a Collection set as a Smart collection' source?

I shoot a decent amount of architecture and design projects. For jobs I usually create a collection set called interiors, inside of that is collections for each room... Room View 1, Room View 2, etc.... I would love to if I create a smart collection there was a checkbox or something to search only inside of collection set the smart collection is in. Right now the smart collection searches the entire library.

If I use the smart collection search criteria to search for the source name it's a text based search and all of my collection sets named interiors would be searched... It's a lot of extra work to rename each one to be unique... smart collections and collections sets seem like they are monotonous to create as it is and creating an option to search only in collection sets would be a great time save.