You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:
- What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
I have a simple datastore system that should save player data when leaving and rejoining.
- What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
So there is a guide on Datastore for beginners. I saw their code was very overcomplicated and had way too many variables (in all 3 functions they restate the datastoreservice 3 times in total) so I decided to simplify it. (Code below) However, something seems to be off with my code. It doesnt not work. I just cannot seem to find the reason why; I have functions that get data, load, and a serverscript along with it. The pcalls don’t return any errors either. I receive that UserID is not a valid member of players. This may be the only error or the rest of the code can have many errors. The devforum I followed shows the code they used, and it works, but I cannot understand why mine doesn’t. I need help understanding and first finding my mistake. Here is their devforum I followed which contains all their code: How To Use, Utilize, and Succeed with DataStores
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- What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
Yes, I have followed a Devforum guide, tried their code and mine, compared. Their did while mine didn’t. I did some research on pcalls and get async. I keep getting these errors despite my efforts it’s difficult. It’s definetely frustrating; this always happens when I try making long script and some error ruins the entire thing
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The modulescript:
local Datamodule = {}
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Datastore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("Datastore")
local key
local data
function Datamodule.SetData(player)
-- create a starting leaderboard
local ldrstats = Instance.new("Folder")
ldrstats.Name = "leaderstats"
local Points = Instance.new("IntValue")
Points.Value = 0
Points.Parent = ldrstats
ldrstats.Parent = player
end
function Datamodule.SaveData(player)
key = player.UserID
data = player.leaderstats.Points.Value
local success, result
-- save our data upon client disconnect gg ez
repeat
success, result = pcall(function()
Datastore:UpdateAsync(key, function() -- from the datastore, make a update async function that takes a key and a function to return the data.
return data
end)
end)
task.wait()
until success
end
function Datamodule.LoadData(player)
local PlayerService = game:GetService("Players")
key = player.UserID
local success, result
repeat
success, result = pcall(function()
data = Datastore:GetAsync(key)
end)
task.wait()
until success or not PlayerService:FindFirstChild(player.Name)
if success then
player.leaderstats.Points.Value = data
print("Successfully loaded the data for user " .. player.Name)
elseif not success then
warn("An error occurred while trying to load the data, see here for more: " .. tostring(result))
else
warn("An error occurred, see here for more: " .. tostring(result))
end
end
return Datamodule
The server script
```lua
local DSModule = require(game.ServerScriptService.DatastoreModule)
local addInstances = DSModule.SetData
local saveData = DSModule.SaveData
local loadData = DSModule.LoadData
local PlayerService = game:GetService("Players")
-- // Player Added Event
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
addInstances(player)
loadData(player)
end)
-- // PlayerRemoving Event
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
saveData(player)
end)
game:BindToClose(function()
for i, player: Player in ipairs(PlayerService:GetPlayers()) do
saveData(player)
end
end)
Please do not ask people to write entire scripts or design entire systems for you. If you can’t answer the three questions above, you should probably pick a different category.
