[chaley]

Originally Posted by Comfy.n

Ah, nice. I did as you suggested on a subset of the library containing only epub format and language:english (VL). Then I ran the template search and let it run for some minutes... then it returned the results containing author notes.

Thanks!

I found a linear search in the API I used, which is why it is taking forever. There is an alternate API that avoids that problem.

Try this template instead. I think you will find it takes at most a few seconds on the full library.

python:
def evaluate(book, context):
	db = context.db.new_api
	authors_with_notes = context.globals.get('authors_with_notes')
	if authors_with_notes is None:
		print('authors notes is none')
		authors_with_notes = db.get_all_items_that_have_notes('authors')
		context.globals['authors_with_notes'] = authors_with_notes
		context.globals['item_name_map'] = db.get_item_name_map('authors')
	item_name_map = context.globals['item_name_map']
	for aut in book.authors:
		if item_name_map.get(aut) in authors_with_notes:
			return '1'
	return ''