Global leaderboard not working

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#1

Hello! I am attempting to make a leaderboard in my game that will show the top donators in my game. When I attempt to test it, I get no errors, but also nothing happens with the leaderboard. So the script is basically doing nothing??? Any ideas are appreciated. Here is my code:

local ds = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetOrderedDataStore("Donations")

while true do
	for _, m in pairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
		if m:IsA("ImageLabel") then m:Destroy() end
	end
	
	local s, r = pcall(function()
		
		local data = ds:GetSortedAsync(false, 5)
		local donationsPage = data:GetCurrentPage()
		
		for rank, value in ipairs(donationsPage) do
			if rank <= 50 then
				
				local name = game:GetService("Players"):GetNameFromUserIdAsync(tonumber(value.key))
				local donationAmount = value.value

				local template = script:WaitForChild("Template"):Clone()
				template.Name = rank .. "_" .. donationAmount
				template:WaitForChild("Rank").Text = rank
				template:WaitForChild("Username").Text = name
				template:WaitForChild("Donated").Text = donationAmount
				template.Parent = script.Parent
				template.Visible = true
				
			end
		end
		
	end)
	
	if not s then warn(r) end
	
	wait(300)
end
#2

Does warn(r) send a warning to the output window? Is it possible that the OrderedDataStore is empty?

#3

Yes, and no. This game has TONS of people who are within this data store.

#4

What warning is displayed? It’s pertinent to the issue you’re facing.

#5

No warning at all. That is part of my problem.

#6

What does this do?
Isn’t it already getting the top players?

#7

Yes, I just want the top 50 players however, nothing more.

#8

I’m not super familiar with how ordered data stores work so I added that because I don’t understand the pages.

#9

You can go here:

#10

I believe all you need is this,
GetSortedAsync(false,50)
50 is the pagecount, which I think means the amount of players you want to pull

#11

Mine is built into a screen GUI, not a surface GUI, therefore I have to program it myself, or modify scripts like that.

#12

From what I have seen each page is around 100 players, but I could be wrong. Regardless that if statement wouldn’t be breaking the code.

#13

UPDATE: I have put a print inside the code and realised that the ipairs loop is not running at all. This is likely my problem, however this data should not be empty.

#14

I am not super intelligent. I am so sorry for being so idiotic, but it turns out Ordered data stores and Data stores are completely seperate, so I have converted my game to ordered data stores and now it works fine. Thank you to everyone to helped me out.