Error: Player not in datamodel

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#1

Hello!

I am currently experiencing an issue within Roblox Studio. When I try to run Player:GetRankInGroup() or Player:IsInGroup() or Player:GetRoleInGroup() it sometimes errors and prints “error: Player not in datamodel”. This usually happens when I run one of those functions after the player left the game.

It’s weird because I haven’t been experiencing it in all of my games, maybe I’ve been enabling something on accident?

Any help is appreciated!

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#2

*The error usually happens when I run the functions on Players.PlayerRemoving

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#3

Player should be Players.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

If you have a script that changes the names of services, use :GetService().

#4

Additionally, you can do:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    if Player:GetRankInGroup(000000) >= 255 then
        print(Player.Name.." is the owner of the group!")
    end
end)
#5

If you need to do something with the player when they leave related to those functions, fetch the values when they join and store it in a variable, and then use those variables in your code when they are leaving. Like this:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local rank = player:GetRankInGroup(idhere)
    -- add more variables as needed

    -- I find using AncestryChanged is better in some edge cases than PlayerRemoving from my experience
    player.AncestryChanged:Connect(function(_, parent)
        if parent ~= nil then return end
        --code that does something with the variables above when they leave the game
        print(rank)
    end)
end)
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