Searching for string in results from calendar.get_events

Configuration
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I want to trigger different events on if a list of events for the day contain certain strings. I have managed to use the calendar.get_events and filter to get a list of events for the day. So far I have not been able to come up with a conditional statement that will give me a true when checking for a string. When looking at the trace from the automation, I get to this and can’t ever get it to give me a result as true.

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The automation has this code:

trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: "06:45:00"
condition: []
action:
  - service: calendar.get_events
    data:
      duration:
        hours: 72
        minutes: 0
        seconds: 0
    response_variable: cal_events
    target:
      entity_id:
        - calendar.fms_events_calendar
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: |-
          false
          {% for key, value in cal_events.items() %}
            {% for event in value.events %}
              {% if 'FMS' in states(event.summary) %}
                true
              {% endif %}
           {% endfor %}
          {% endfor %} 
    then:
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{% set fms = namespace(event=false) %}
{%- for key, value in cal_events.items() if fms.event is false %}
  {%- for event in value.events if fms.event is false and 'FMS' in event.summary%}
    {%- set fms.event = true %}
  {%- endfor -%}
{%- endfor %}
{{- fms.event }}

Though, if you will need the filtered events for some purpose later in the automation, it would likely be better to extract them into a variable to avoid having to render the same thing multiple times.

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Thank You, It looks like it is working. I can now get it to return true or false, depending upon my inputs.

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