Deleting Chat Messages

[ObscureDevv (The ObscureDevv)]

What its For:
I was creating a custom admin system using the default ROBLOX chat system. It has multiple different commands. The commands will be used to change player stats or just about whatever I just want them to do.

Issue:
I don’t want others to be able to see the -change (player) (amount of cash) so I was trying to find a way to delete messages once there sent in the chat. I thought there was a way but can’t find anything on devfourm about it or developer hub. Is there a way to delete messages in the chat once there sent?

[MixedConscience (Conscience)]

I recommend this:

Returning true tells the Chat manager not to push the message globally, just to execute the function once they type that exact command “/pizza”.

Returning false does the opposite, it sends the message.

Docs:

Lua Chat System — Server API — ChatService

Forking the chat?

Lua Chat System

[eggspIicit (dylan)]

for the lazy way to do it that i used to use when i would play admin games back in 2017 i just used to do /e {cmd} but if youre going for a actual way to do it in the script then i recommend creating a command bar like HD, Khols, and other admin systems!

[colbert2677 (ImagineerColbert)]

Answer from another thread asking how to do the exact same thing:

Is their a way to Delete a Message in the Chat?

I may have wrote that post with the idea of preventing a chat message from being sent but there’s two reasons why I say in this post that you should prevent it instead of deleting it: There’s no clean way to delete a chat message. Deleting Gui elements isn’t enough, there are still components in the Lua Chat System that hold onto the message that need to be cleared out. Most of your use cases for wanting to delete a chat message should actually be in the sense of not sending the chat messa…

[daprobuildaguy]

You could possibly use a script that would set the message to something like " " instead.

How Would I Edit a Players Message?

Here is a slightly modified version of the example on the developer hub page: -- Paste this example into a ModuleScript within the ChatModules folder. local functionId = "editText" local function doFilter(speaker, messageObject, channelName) if messageObject.Message == "ez" then messageObject.Message = "gg" end end local function runChatModule(ChatService) ChatService:RegisterFilterMessageFunction(functionId, doFilter) end return runChatModule I have not tested this, bu…