From what I read and suspect...
The "appendpipe" command looks to simply run a given command totally outside the realm of whatever other searches are going on...and append those results to the answerset.
Thus, in your example, the map command inside the appendpipe would be ignorant of the data in the other (preceding/outside) part of the search. As such, indeed, it would only run one time.
There are a LOT of people seeking ways to do some similar things (including me...as I want to do a sub-search based on data from elsewhere) and it's not easily intuitive to do so.... 🙂
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