In FileMaker 6, if I had a value list that pulled data from two fields, say item number and item name, and set the value list to sort by the second field, I could use that field to jump in the list.

For example, if the value list looked like this:

12345 Apples

67890 Oranges

24680 Pears

I could press the letter 'P' and jump right to 'Pears' in the list. I cannot seem to do this in FM7. Is this no longer a feature? Or is there some trick to make it behave in this fashion?

This is no longer a feature in 7, although hopefully FileMaker in the future will realize that they made a mistake and in a future version of FileMaker 7, like 7.3, it will work once again. In the meantime, there is a workaround with relationships and lookups. There is an example in these forums.

I was afraid of that. I thought about the workaround, but was hoping to avoid it.

Thanks!