Get UserID of an offline user

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#1

Hello, I’ve recently used tables to store data such as if a user has a warning under there name. What if I want to clear the warnings off an offline user? The table saves and loads using the userId then a key that I can use to reset data. I was wondering if it’d be possible to get the userId of a user who is offline based on the name and then load in there data in the table to then remove the warnings or bans.

Something like this…

PunishmentsStorage:GetAsync(target…punishmentKey)
punishments[Target][‘Warnings’] = 0`

#2 
 local userID = game.Players:GetUserIdFromNameAsync("Jamie_Jr")
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#3

Don’t forget to wrap it in pcall!

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#4

Hm, the userId from name Async seems to work. Although when firing the client (for a check) it always returns nil. Even when I make sure it says return true. I added prints to debug and everything seems like it should work fine. The client has return true… the server prints that its nil. I assume this isn’t to do with the userId but is there a reason for this?

#5

Also, would this work if the user is offline/not in game?

While attempting to do your idea it didn’t seem to work.

_G.ClearPunishments = function(plr,target)
	pcall(function()
		print(game:GetService("Players"):GetUserIdFromNameAsync(target))
		if game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChild(target) then else
			Punishments[target] = PunishmentsStorage:GetAsync(game:GetService("Players"):GetUserIdFromNameAsync(target)..punishmentKey)
		end
		Punishments[target]['Warnings'] = 0
		Punishments[target]['Banned'] = false
		Punishments[target]['BanReason'] = "None"
		PunishmentsStorage:SetAsync(game:GetService("Players"):GetUserIdFromNameAsync(target)..punishmentKey, Punishments[target])
		if game:GetService("Players"):FindFirstChild(target) then else
			Punishments[target] = nil
		end
	end)
end
#6

It should work; try testing it outside of that code with some random name.

Then if it works figure out what in your own code isn’t working.

#7

Something is bothering me about this code, in other news. Did you create a table for the user, or is a table saved to the datastore? If not, you can’t start assigning keys and values out of the blue.

Punishments[target] = {}
Punishments[target]["Warnings"] = blah whatever

GetAsync whatever whatever
-> Should return a table