Heads up:

 

Our users have found that value lists in popup menus that formerly ignored pre-pended characters for sorting, now respect them. For instance, in FileMaker 12, values that were pre-pended with an asterisk were displayed in Alpha-numeric order by default — and the pre-pended asterisk was ignored:

 

 

Now, in FileMaker 13, these characters are included in the default sort order, so all of the pre-pended values are now together at the top of the list:

 

If anyone has suggestions on how I can restore the previous behavior (short of reverting back to FileMaker 12!), I'm all "ears".

 

Thanks in advance,

- - Scott

From this TechNet discussion, it's coming down to the default popup menu value list is mirroring the "View Index" list.

 

So far, we know that FileMaker 12 and 13 sort fields the same way: ignoring leading spaces and special characters (like the asterisk). FileMaker 12 displays value lists in popup menus that same way, but FileMaker 13 sorts the list exactly how it displays the "View Index" value index.

 

Anybody else want to chime in here?

 

- - Scott