Selective publishing selection should be more persistent (across page loads etc)

Overview

When a user makes a selection in the "Publish changes" drop down, it's very easy for that selection to get lost as a result of various scenarios. E.g. If they leave the page and come back, navigate to a different page or attempt to publish their selection but encounter an error.

Proposed resolution

We need to ensure that the user's selection remains in all of the above situations to avoid them having to re-check all the changes which, in theory, could be quite an arduous task.

Basically in all scenarios except for the publish action completing successfully, the selection should persist. Perhaps using local storage or something.

When a change is discarded, the changed item should be explicitly removed from the selection to ensure it doesn't immediately become re-selected on subsequent changes.

When a change has been selected, if the user makes a further change to that item, it should be removed from the selection to ensure that changes made are not involuntarily published.

User interface changes