Is there still no way to add a searchable item attribute?

[UnionRiverBook]

I need to bulk upload a custom attribute, in this case "author" to an item.  However custom attribute have a hard limit of only 255 values? That's a pretty useless feature in that case. 

you can't even make a "notes" column that could be used that way... Anything really? 

[Candlestore]

@UnionRiverBook ;

What I would suggest is in the Item Name field put Bookname - Author.  Then on your POS you can search by Author and it will list all their books.  The item name can be up to 128 characters.   I know this is not perfect but might help.

Or setup Categories for each Author.