Getting a player's group rank from a SurfaceGui

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#1

So, i’ve been trying to get what’s basically a wall terminal to grab a player’s group rank so that it can determine if it displays the information or makes a access denied screen pop up. However, i’ve only gotten it working with a tablet tool.

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#2

Hey, is it like a TextButton on a SurfaceGui that a player clicks, similarly to how they would presumably be clicking a button on the tablet tool?

#3

Yeah it’s like a login screen that checks your rank and opens to like several commands.

#4

In that case you would go about getting the group ID, and then getting players group Role.

local groupID = youridhere

script.Parent.Activated:Connect(function(plr)
 plr:GetRoleInGroup(groupID) == ROLENUM or >= ROLENUM then  --if this doesn't work try GetRankInGroup()
      -- The Remaining commands if is in that rank,
else
-- The remaining for those without the rank
  end
end)
#5

By commands, I mean like buttons where if you click them it plays an alarm or something.
Unless that’s what you meant to do in that script.

#6

However, I’ll try it and see what happens.

#7

Something about a syntax error at

== ROLENUM or >= ROLENUM then

#8

You could use the Player:GetRankInGroup (roblox.com) method to check if they have the required rank to access the display.

local function IsRequiredRank(Player, RequiredRank)
    return Player:IsInGroup(GroupId) and Player:GetRankInGroup(GroupId) >= RequiredRank -- Is the player in the group? And is their rank higher or equal to the required?
end

...

if IsRequiredRank(Player, 254) then -- Do they have a rank of 254 or higher in the group? If so...
    print("Welcome", Player.Name)
else -- Otherwise...
    print("Access denied for", Player.Name)
end

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EDIT

I don’t quite understand – GetRankInGroup works both on the server and the client, only it doesn’t cache the result when called on the client. A SurfaceGui (as others have pointed out) can only be seen when in a player’s PlayerGui (the Adornee property can be set to the part however).

The information could be verified/handled on the server, which would be then showed on the client if that’s a solution.

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#9

Let me be more specific.

See, it’s going to be a login screen on some wall, and I’m gonna be doing this with a ServerScript, not a LocalScript because it doesn’t work because I assume it’s not a ScreenGui, it’s a SurfaceGui.

So yeah. (Might be confusing, I’m not the best at english.)

#10

Quoted from the Roblox Developer Reference (SurfaceGui):

Note: SurfaceGuis must be descendants of PlayerGui in order to know the player who is interacting with it.

I haven’t personally used SurfaceGui but if it is how I think
Player.PlayerGui.SurfaceGui, then you can use that path to get the player.

Otherwise, you could try using theGetDescendants function paired with IsA
(I’ve never tried it before)

#11

ScreenGuis and SurfaceGuis are still guis. Doesn’t matter which you put a TextButton in, you will require a LocalScript to record inputs with them, unless you have another workaround for it. In general, you should be using LocalScripts for any amount of work using guis.