Jay,

I also don't see why you need to do the find and show all records. (Unless I'm missing something.) Could you not shorten it to:

Show All Records 
Go to Record/Request/Page[ First ] 
Enter Browse Mode 
Loop 
  Go to Layout [ Report ] 
  Enter Preview Mode 
  Copy [  ] [ Select entire contents ] 
  Go to Layout [ Report Image ] 
  Enter Browse Mode 
  Paste [ Echo Image ] [ Select entire contents ] 
  Go to Record/Request/Page [ Next ] 
End Loop

Just run through them all in order. The find would surely be your slowest step. Also a Freeze Window at the beginning can sometimes greatly speed up a script. (If you had to isolate each record for some reason, consider placing the record's id in the global, but using Go to Related Record, as opposed to a find.)

Geoff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: FileMaker Pro Discussions [mailto:FMPRO-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Cassidy
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 4:18 AM
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> Subject: Re: Exporting Images with field data
> 
> On 18 Oct 2012, at 03:50, Jay Erlebacher wrote:
> 
> > I've been attempting to implement Steve Cassidy's solution, starting with
> copying and pasting a preview version of each report into a container field. It
> took a bit of fiddling because I had to find each report individually, copy and
> paste it, show all records, go to the next record, find that individual record,
> and repeat. It's a kludgy process and it runs very slowly, about 20 records per
> minute. I have 18,000 records!
> > The script I am using is below. Am I missing something or making it harder
> than it needs to be?
> > Thanks in advance...
> 
> Hi Jay
> 
> As I said, it might take overnight depending on how big your data set is ;)
> 
> And I did warn you that this would be a bit kludgy!
> 
> You could probably avoid the Find All, but I don't know if that would speed
> things up much. Three seconds per record seems about right to me; I can't
> imagine this process getting much quicker. (Though I use a pretty old
> computer; perhaps a modern super-charged, 12-core, etc. machine might
> make it faster.)
> 
> Are your patient numbers not consecutive or close to it? If they are, you
> could just increment a global at each loop (rather then setting from a field)
> and use that for your find. You'd just need a check for no found records in
> case there was a gap in the sequence.
> 
> Alternatively, you could first build a global list of all the patient numbers and
> build your find requests from that list. (Another trick: put only the patient
> number field on a layout; enter browse mode, go to that layout; find all
> records; copy to a global field.)
> 
> But as I say, I'm not sure this will make things much faster. I'd say you'd best
> just set this going one Friday afternoon and come back Monday morning to
> find it done...
> 
> Steve