Devlog Help 1 - Saving String Values

[OfficialPlatinumMan]

Hello scripters.! This is my first devlog of me trying to create a developer game.

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MY ISSUE:

When the value of the leaderstats change, they don’t save, they just return to “No”.

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WHAT I WANT TO HAPPEN:

When the leaderstats change I want them to save in the leaderstats.

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MY CURRENT SCRIPT:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("YourGameName")

-- Function to load player data
local function loadPlayerData(player)
	local key = "Player_" .. player.UserId

	local success, data = pcall(function()
		return DataStore:GetAsync(key)
	end)

	if success then
		return data
	else
		warn("Failed to load data for player " .. player.Name)
		return nil
	end
end

-- Function to save player data
local function savePlayerData(player, data)
	local key = "Player_" .. player.UserId

	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(key, data)
	end)

	if not success then
		warn("Failed to save data for player " .. player.Name .. ": " .. errorMessage)
	end
end

-- Create leaderstats and set initial values
local function setupLeaderstats(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

	local forHire = Instance.new("StringValue")
	forHire.Name = "ForHire"
	forHire.Value = "No"
	forHire.Parent = leaderstats

	local hiring = Instance.new("StringValue")
	hiring.Name = "Hiring"
	hiring.Value = "No"
	hiring.Parent = leaderstats

	local posting = Instance.new("StringValue")
	posting.Name = "Posting"
	posting.Value = "No"
	posting.Parent = leaderstats

	local public = Instance.new("StringValue")
	public.Name = "Public"
	public.Value = "No"
	public.Parent = leaderstats

	leaderstats.Parent = player
end

-- Connect the function to player added event
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local playerData = loadPlayerData(player)

	if not playerData then
		setupLeaderstats(player)
	else
		-- Set values from loaded data
		player.leaderstats.ForHire.Value = playerData.ForHire
		player.leaderstats.Hiring.Value = playerData.Hiring
		player.leaderstats.Posting.Value = playerData.Posting
		player.leaderstats.Public.Value = playerData.Public
	end
end)

-- Connect the function to player removing event to save data
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local playerData = {
		ForHire = player.leaderstats.ForHire.Value,
		Hiring = player.leaderstats.Hiring.Value,
		Posting = player.leaderstats.Posting.Value,
		Public = player.leaderstats.Public.Value
	}

	savePlayerData(player, playerData)
end)

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VIDEO:

Devlog Help 1.

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DEVLOG HISTORY:

Devlog 1: Saving String Values - To Be Determined

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SOLUTION’S LEADERBOARD:

1st: TO BE DETERMINED

2nd: TO BE DETERMINED

3rd: TO BE DETERMINED

[OfficialPlatinumMan]

All replies are greatly appreciated!

[MikeartsRBLX (Verdancyx)]

did you check the output? also instead of using player.leaderstats i recommend you use `player:WaitForChild(“leaderstats”). leaderstats does not instantly appear inside of player when it joins, so it’s best to use :WaitForChild, just in case.

[kexy123]

SetAsync on PlayerRemoving function not saving to DataStore

Do you have the SignalBehavior Property in Workspace set to "Deferred" or "Default"? That’s probably the reason. Since events are placed in a queue and happen after the scripts have been executed. So when the player is destroyed, the Player argument is nil, because the player was already gone and the PlayerRemoving event happened last. If it is, set SignalBehavior to immediate.

Datastores can save strings completely fine. It’s that there is a problem that Roblox added when regarding SignalBehavior. It should not affect all events.

[OfficialPlatinumMan]

CURRENT SCRIPT:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("YourGameName")

-- Function to load player data
local function loadPlayerData(player)
	local key = "Player_" .. player.UserId

	local success, data = pcall(function()
		return DataStore:GetAsync(key)
	end)

	if success then
		return data
	else
		warn("Failed to load data for player " .. player.Name)
		return nil
	end
end

-- Function to save player data
local function savePlayerData(player, data)
	local key = "Player_" .. player.UserId

	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(key, data)
	end)

	if not success then
		warn("Failed to save data for player " .. player.Name .. ": " .. errorMessage)
	end
end

-- Create leaderstats and set initial values
local function setupLeaderstats(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

	local forHire = Instance.new("StringValue")
	forHire.Name = "ForHire"
	forHire.Value = "No"
	forHire.Parent = leaderstats

	local hiring = Instance.new("StringValue")
	hiring.Name = "Hiring"
	hiring.Value = "No"
	hiring.Parent = leaderstats

	local posting = Instance.new("StringValue")
	posting.Name = "Posting"
	posting.Value = "No"
	posting.Parent = leaderstats

	local public = Instance.new("StringValue")
	public.Name = "Public"
	public.Value = "No"
	public.Parent = leaderstats

	leaderstats.Parent = player
end

-- Connect the function to player added event
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local playerData = loadPlayerData(player)

	if not playerData then
		setupLeaderstats(player)
	else
		-- Set values from loaded data
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").ForHire.Value = playerData.ForHire
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Hiring.Value = playerData.Hiring
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Posting.Value = playerData.Posting
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Public.Value = playerData.Public
	end
end)

-- Connect the function to player removing event to save data
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local playerData = {
		ForHire = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").ForHire.Value,
		Hiring = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Hiring.Value,
		Posting = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Posting.Value,
		Public = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Public.Value
	}

	savePlayerData(player, playerData)
end)

THE PROBLEM:

It still doesn’t save at all. I’ve tried both your solutions.

VIDEO:

This should help: https://youtu.be/bMM1z1KAS74

[neweve2323 (block)]

This would work in a normal server. If you want this to work in Studio consider adding game:BindToClose() as Studio closes the server before data can save:

game:BindToClose(function()
task.wait(3) -- holds server open for 3 seconds
end)

Solution leaderboard? what

[OfficialPlatinumMan]

It doesn’t work in a normal server both ways, I join and everything works perfectly fine. But once I leave and rejoin, the leaderstats just doesn’t show up…

Current Script:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("ABCD")

-- Function to load player data
local function loadPlayerData(player)
	local key = "Player_" .. player.UserId

	local success, data = pcall(function()
		return DataStore:GetAsync(key)
	end)

	if success then
		return data
	else
		warn("Failed to load data for player " .. player.Name)
		return nil
	end
end

-- Function to save player data
local function savePlayerData(player, data)
	local key = "Player_" .. player.UserId

	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(key, data)
	end)

	if not success then
		warn("Failed to save data for player " .. player.Name .. ": " .. errorMessage)
	end
end

-- Create leaderstats and set initial values
local function setupLeaderstats(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

	local forHire = Instance.new("StringValue")
	forHire.Name = "ForHire"
	forHire.Value = "No"
	forHire.Parent = leaderstats

	local hiring = Instance.new("StringValue")
	hiring.Name = "Hiring"
	hiring.Value = "No"
	hiring.Parent = leaderstats

	local posting = Instance.new("StringValue")
	posting.Name = "Posting"
	posting.Value = "No"
	posting.Parent = leaderstats

	local public = Instance.new("StringValue")
	public.Name = "Public"
	public.Value = "No"
	public.Parent = leaderstats

	leaderstats.Parent = player
end

-- Connect the function to player added event
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local playerData = loadPlayerData(player)

	if not playerData then
		setupLeaderstats(player)
	else
		-- Set values from loaded data
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").ForHire.Value = playerData.ForHire
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Hiring.Value = playerData.Hiring
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Posting.Value = playerData.Posting
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Public.Value = playerData.Public
	end
end)

-- Connect the function to player removing event to save data
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local playerData = {
		ForHire = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").ForHire.Value,
		Hiring = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Hiring.Value,
		Posting = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Posting.Value,
		Public = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Public.Value
	}

	savePlayerData(player, playerData)
end)

[FlipDip32 (TheUIMan)]

Oh this is easy! You just need to use remote events!

Try something like this:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("UnofficialDataStorage")

local leaderstatValues = {
	"ForHire",
	"Hiring",
	"Posting",
	"Public"
}

for i, valueName in leaderstatValues do
	local remoteEvent = Instance.new("RemoteEvent")
	remoteEvent.Name = valueName
	remoteEvent.Parent = ReplicatedStorage

	remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, value)
		if not value or type(value) ~= "boolean" then
			return
		end

		player.leaderstats[valueName].Value = value and "Yes" or "No"
	end)
end

-- Function to load player data
local function loadPlayerData(player)
	local key = player.UserId

	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		return DataStore:GetAsync(key)
	end)

	if success then --no errors
		print("Player data loaded successfully for", player.Name)
		return errorMessage -- error message only if failed, return value if it didn't
	elseif not success and errorMessage then
		warn("Failed to load data for player " .. player.Name .. ": " .. errorMessage)
	end
end
-- Function to save player data
local function savePlayerData(player, data)
	local key = player.UserId

	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(key, data)
	end)

	if success then
		print("Player data saved successfully for", player.Name)
	else
		warn("Failed to save data for player " .. player.Name .. ": " .. errorMessage)
	end
end

-- Create leaderstats and set initial values
local function setupLeaderstats(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

	for i, valueName in leaderstatValues do
		local stringValue = Instance.new("StringValue")
		stringValue.Name = valueName
		stringValue.Value = "No"
		stringValue.Parent = leaderstats
	end

	leaderstats.Parent = player
end

-- Connect the function to player added event
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local playerData = loadPlayerData(player)

	setupLeaderstats(player)

	if playerData then
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").ForHire.Value = playerData.ForHire;
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Hiring.Value = playerData.Hiring;
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Posting.Value = playerData.Posting;
		player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Public.Value = playerData.Public;
	end
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local playerData = {
		ForHire = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").ForHire.Value,
		Hiring = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Hiring.Value,
		Posting = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Posting.Value,
		Public = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Public.Value
	}

	savePlayerData(player, playerData)
end)

game:BindToClose(function()
	if runService:IsStudio() then task.wait(3) return end

	for _, player in Players:GetPlayers() do
		local playerData = {
			ForHire = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").ForHire.Value,
			Hiring = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Hiring.Value,
			Posting = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Posting.Value,
			Public = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Public.Value
		}

		savePlayerData(player, playerData)
	end

	task.wait(3)
	print("Server shutting down. Player data saved.")
end)

And try something like this for No Button:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local RemoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Posting")

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255,67,67)
	script.Parent.Parent.YesButton.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(173, 173, 173)
	script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Stats.ForHire.ForHireLabel.Text = "NO"
	script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Stats.ForHire.ForHireLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255,67,67)
	RemoteEvent:FireServer(false)
end)

and this for Yes Button:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local RemoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Hiring")

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(85, 255, 127)
	script.Parent.Parent.NoButton.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(173, 173, 173)
	script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Stats.ForHire.ForHireLabel.Text = "YES"
	script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Stats.ForHire.ForHireLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(85,255,127)
	RemoteEvent:FireServer(true)
end)

Good luck on your journey!

[OfficialPlatinumMan]

Wow it worked! Thank you so much!