Publish Multiple Smart Collections - Hard Drive

Publishing multuple collections that are contained within a Publish Service is clumsy and inefficient.

The fundamental issue appears to be that there is no support for iterating through multiple selections. I reported this a while ago when I discovered it was not possible to highlight mulitple collections and export the smart settings for each. The process only exported one, despite multiple selection.

In the current scenario I have 100+ smart collections in a hard disk publish service. The goal here is to create a master folder with individual folders matching each smart collection. I don't want all images to be contained in a single folder.

At the top level there is no control to say publish everything in this current publish service.

So what would seem to be the correct procedure is to highlight the smart folders (within the Publish Service), reveal the context menu and then select publish now. Whilst this is possible, it only exports one, not all the folders highlighted. Multiple selection is not supported.

You have to select publish for each folder. That's tedious and unncessary. It should be a one step operation.

Multiple selection needs to be properly supported.

Another thing that is inefficient is that there is no keyboard support to move through the collection list items. Down arrow is used when the main screen is showing the grid view. Option-arrows could be a substitute, especially if there is no such thing as view focus in the UI.

It occurs with all Published Services. 

Steps

1. Create multiple smart collections within a Hard Disk publish Service
2. Select all the smart collections
3. Context menu 
4. Publish Now

Result

Only one of the collections is published.

Workaround

Select one collection at a time and then select Publish

LrC 11.5, Mac Monterey, M1