Portal sorting and ExecuteSQL ORDER BY are not consistent

Issue report by Eric Taylor

Product

FileMaker Pro

Version

14.0.1

Operating system version

Max OS X Yosemite

Description of the issue

Hello Forum,

I just encountered what I think is a bug. I have a portal of companies where I sort by the company name in ascending order. The default name I give a company upon creation is (Untitled Company) -, followed by a timestamp.

When this saves down, it shows up in the portal in the "U" section, so that I have, for example, in this order:

Unrein Constructors, Inc.
Unser Construction, Inc.
(Untitled Company) - etc.


In a script, for certain reasons, I execute the following SQL query using ExecuteSQL:

ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT id, name FROM Company ORDER BY name ASC"; ""; "" )

Now, ExecuteSQL properly returns the sort order as this:

(Untitled Company) - etc.
A ... T ...
Unrein Constructors, Inc.
Unser Construction, Inc.


In other words, it floats to the top.

I think this a bug. It would seem that FM's indexing system is ignoring the "(", and it really shouldn't do that.

Thoughts?

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