Basic Admin Essentials Promote/Demote Commands

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#1

I am trying to create a new command in the Basic Admin Essentials MainModule called demote and promote.
I read a forum post about how to create a rank management system using glitch. So I copied over the server, configs, and main script into one of my games and whenever I run the command promote in the BAE admin console it calls the server and runs the promote command with 2 args (GroupID, UserID).
Currently, when I run it, it gives me the error

Attempt to concatenate Instance with String.

I have no idea how to fix this.

BAE MainModule code:

function Funcs.Promote(Args)
	local Player = Args[1]
	local Command = Args[2]
	local Players = returnPlayers(Player,Args[3],Args[2]) if not Players then return end
	if Command == "promote" then
		for a,b in next,Players do
			local server = require(game.ServerScriptService.Main.Server)
			server.Promote(9832442,Player.UserId)
			essentialsEvent:FireClient(Player,'Hint','Success','Promoted user '..Player.."!")
		end
	elseif Command == "demote" then
		for a,b in next,Players do
			local server = require(game.ServerScriptService.Main.Server)
			server.Demote(9832442,Player.UserId)
			essentialsEvent:FireClient(Player,'Hint','Success','Demoted user '..Player.."!")
		end
	end
end
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#2

From what I can see from previous lines, this is a Player Instance, so just do Player.Name instead of Player when concatenating on the last argument, the 1st argument stays the same

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#3

That is not the problem. Getting the UserID is. But I will definitely fix that.

#4

Are you erroring on the FireClient lines? If so, then it’s cause of the thing I mentioned about trying to concatenate the player instance with a string, when doing ..Player.., you should change it to ..Player.Name..

Also your local server = require(game.ServerScriptService.Main.Server) should be put outside of the function because regardless if you’re promoting or demoting, it’s still using this module

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#5

Yes I am.

:confused:

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#6

Then it’s because of the issue I had stated, change your ..Player.. to ..Player.Name.. in both of the FireClients, Player is a variable that contains a Player instance if previous code is anything to go by

#7

Yes, I know but I am trying to get the player’s userID, not the Player’s username.

#8

So what you’re trying to do in that Demoted/promoted user string is to mention the userid?

Something like

Demoted user 674725663!? If so, just change ..Player.. to ..tostring(Player.UserId)..

#9

Im not talking about the hint function. I am talking about the server.Promote and server.Demote

#10

What is wrong with the Promote and Demote? You were saying the error is having in the FireClient lines

#11

Oh I did not know you meant that.

The error with promote and demote is getting the UserID.

#12

What happens if you try to print the UserId of the player given? If you have a Player instance shouldn’t it be easy to get the id?

#13

Yes. But for some reason whenever I get the user ID by using player.UserId it says attempt to concatenate instance with string.

#14

Huh? That’s strange, never saw that happen before, does it even happen if you put a print(Player.UserId) somewhere?

#15

I don’t know. Let me try that real quick! :slight_smile:

#16

Nothing printed. :confused:

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#17

Okay it’s something wrong with how it is getting t he Player, what happens if you print the Player variable by itself, aka print(Player)

#18

It prints phyouthcenter1. So it prints the players name

#19

Wait, before anything, add this print, print(typeof(Player)), if it returns string, it’s likely that’s your issue.

Also I just realised your looping is kinda unnecessary

#20

ok.

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