Data Storing A Textbutton's Visibility Property

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1

Hello,
I am trying to data store a text button’s visible property. Basically, when a player leaves it checks the textbutton’s visibility and upon joining their data loads. How can I accomplish this? I can’t find any documentation on this, and I started the script but I get stumped on how to actually save and load the property.

Heres the script:

local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Dstore = DSS:GetDataStore("TB")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local Success, ErrorMessage = pcall(function()
		Dstore = DataStore:GetAsync(Player.UserId) 
		-- where I get stuck
	end)
end)
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The way I’d go about doing this is creating a BoolValue inside the gui object, and whenever that object is visible, set the BoolValue to true, and then if it’s not visible, set it to false.

Upon a player being removed, I would save the value of the BoolValue, and then once the player joins the game, load their data and check if that BoolValue is true or false, and set the visibility to the appropriate value.

3

I tried this, but I am unsure how to check if the player has data. I tried this new script:

local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Dstore = DSS:GetDataStore("TB")
local value = game:GetService("StarterGui"):FindFirstChild("BaseUI"):FindFirstChild("OptionsTab"):FindFirstChild("pan"):FindFirstChild("furn")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local Success, ErrorMessage = pcall(function()
		Dstore = DataStore:GetAsync(Player.UserId, value.Value) 
		
	end)
if Success then
-- get stumped here
end)

I get stumped here. I don’t know how to load the bool value or anything.

4

You’ll wanna save the player’s data when they leave, so I would use a PlayerRemoving event and then get the player’s BoolValue for their gui object. You can’t use StarterGui, because everything in StarterGui is cloned into the PlayerGui, so changes will only be seen on the PlayerGui, therefore they should be made there. A way of doing this would be:
local value = player.PlayerGui:FindFirstChild("BaseUI"):FindFirstChild("OptionsTab"):FindFirstChild("pan"):FindFirstChild("furn"), after this, we’ll use a pcall just like you did when getting the player’s data,

local Succes, errormessage = pcall(function()
    Dstore:SetAsync(player.UserId, value.Value)
end)

Sorry for the bad formatting, on my phone.

In your :GetAsync(), make sure to get the BoolValue as well.

5

I understand this, but how would I set the player’s data to their data?

For example, in the

if Succes then
-- what would I put here?

This is what I don’t understand.

6

I tried looking into it but I still can’t find anything on it. Does anybody know a possible way?

8

I also tried a newer script, the datastore script being:

local dataStores = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local dataStore = dataStores:GetDataStore("Datastar")
local players = game:GetService("Players")

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local bool = Instance.new("BoolValue")
	bool.Name = "Bool"
	bool.Parent = player

	local data
	local success, result = pcall(function()
		data = dataStore:GetAsync("Player_"..player.UserId)
	end)

	if success then
		if data then
			print(result)
			bool.Value = data
		else
			print(result)
			bool.Value = false
		end
	else
		warn(result)
	end
end)

players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)	
	local success, result = pcall(function()
		dataStore:SetAsync("Player_"..player.UserId, player.Bool.Value)
	end)

	if success then
		print(result)
	else
		warn(result)
	end
end)

game:BindToClose(function()
	for _, player in ipairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
		local success, result = pcall(function()
			dataStore:SetAsync("Player_"..player.UserId, player.Bool.Value)
		end)

		if success then
			print(result)
		else
			warn(result)
		end
	end
end)
local RemoteEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
RemoteEvent.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
	print(Player.name.." is firing from client to server!")
    Player:FindFirstChild("Bool").Value = true
end)

And this local script changing firing the event:

local RemoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Funny")
local Button = script.Parent

Button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	RemoteEvent:FireServer()
	script.Parent.Parent.pan.Visible = true
end)

I also have this new local script changing the text button’s visibility based on the value:



game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local value = Player:FindFirstChild("Bool")

	if value.Value == true then
		script.Parent.Visible = true
	else
		script.Parent.Visible = false
	end
end)

The script above does not work. No errors, it saves and load but the text button visibility is not changing. Can anyone help?

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game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local value = Player:WaitForChild("Bool")
	
	script.Parent.Visible = value.Value
	
	value.Changed:Connect(function(newValue)
		script.Parent.Visible = newValue
	end)
end)

Didn’t spend much time reading the thread but this may resolve your issue.

10

Alright lemme test this really quick

11

Oh wait, is that a local script? If so .PlayerAdded won’t fire for the local player (the client of which the script is executing for).

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = players.LocalPlayer
local bool = player:WaitForChild("Bool")

local label = script.Parent
label.Visible = bool.Value

bool.Changed:Connect(function(newBool)
	label.Visible = newBool
end)
12

They need it to save. For example:

The bool is ‘true’,

You join, your data loads in, the game checks the data, the bool is true so the textbutton should be visible true but it should save whenever it changes.

13

This works greatly! Thanks a lot man!