Hello! This might be more straightforward than I’m making it to be, but I haven’t found a solution and have not seen anybody asking about this, so I figured I’d ask here.
What I’m trying to do
I’m trying to create a base called “Author works” so that I can insert it in the notes I’ve created for some book authors or researchers and have it pull a list of all of their works.
So far I’ve made it work when the “author”/”authors” (the first is for non-academic books and the second for academic papers where several people are involved) properties contain the note title, but my problem is many of my notes on research papers don’t contain the name as it is on the note file, but rather a variation of it (like “A.” for the middle name if it’s “Andrew”). This data is pulled directly from my Zotero library via the Citations plugin, and I’d rather not have to manually edit each note to take off the initials of middle names since my intention is to quickly access all works by the same author even if I’ve forgotten I took notes on some of them.
I’ve added the name variations I’ve noticed as aliases for the author note, but have not been able to create a filter that correctly identifies them and displays the notes with said aliases in the “author”/”authors” property.
Things I have tried
These filters:
I’ve also tried changing “this.file.aliases” to “file.aliases” and “this.file.alias”, but neither of these work. With “this.file.aliases” and “this.file.alias” I get the following error message:
Failed to evaluate a filter: Cannot find “aliases” on type File
Is there any way to achieve what I want with bases?
Thank you in advance!
