Hello Everyone!
So right now I am making an obby. (I’m ashamed to admit it but I was bored and they are fun to make)
I am currently trying to make a Global Leaderboard for coins, following a DevKing tutorial on Youtube. I have checked for any typos in the script, yet cannot find what is wrong. When I play the game I get this error
103: string is not allowed in data stores. - Server - LeaderboardHandler:39
Stack Begin - Studio
Script 'ServerScriptService.LeaderboardHandler', Line 39
I do not know if it is because of maybe how my leaderstats is scripted, as this game I made a year ago and I really don’t know where I got anything from. I have looked for solutions and could not find any. The leaderstats script is coded weird and I didn’t know how to add coins into the datastore part of it, so I will include that script as well as the leaderboard script
Leaderboard Script:
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local CoinsLeaderboard = DataStoreService:GetOrderedDataStore("CoinsLeaderboard")
local function updateLeaderboard ()
local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
local Data = CoinsLeaderboard:GetSortedAsync(false, 5)
local CoinsPage = Data:GetCurrentPage()
for Rank, data in ipairs(CoinsPage) do
local userName = game.Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync(tonumber(data.key))
local Name = userName
local Coins = data.value
local isOnLeaderboard = false
for i, v in pairs (game.Workspace.GlobalLeaderboard.LeaderboardGUI.Holder:GetChildren()) do
if v.Player.Text == Name then
isOnLeaderboard = true
break
end
end
if Coins and isOnLeaderboard == false then
local newLBFrame = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("LeaderboardFrame"):Clone()
newLBFrame.Player.Text = Name
newLBFrame.Rank.Text = "#"..Rank
newLBFrame.Coins.Text = Coins
newLBFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0, 0, newLBFrame.Position.Y.Scale + (.08 * #game.Workspace.GlobalLeaderboard.LeaderboardGUI.Holder:GetChildren()), 0)
newLBFrame.parent = game.Workspace.GlobalLeaderboard.LeaderboardGUI.Holder
end
end
end)
if not success then
print(errorMessage)
end
end
while true do
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
CoinsLeaderboard:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.leaderstats.Coins.Value) --this is where i get the error...
end
for _, frame in pairs (game.Workspace.GlobalLeaderboard.LeaderboardGUI.Holder:GetChildren()) do
frame:Destroy()
end
updateLeaderboard()
print("Updated!")
wait(10)
end
Leaderstats Script:
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local SaveDataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("SaveData")
local function SavePlayerData(player)
local success,errormsg = pcall(function()
local SaveData = {}
for i,stats in pairs(player.leaderstats:GetChildren()) do
SaveData[stats.Name] = stats.Value
end
SaveDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId,SaveData)
end)
if not success then
return errormsg
end
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local Stats = Instance.new("Folder")
Stats.Name = "leaderstats"
Stats.Parent = player
local Stage = Instance.new("StringValue")
Stage.Name = "Stage"
Stage.Parent = Stats
Stage.Value = 1
local Coins = Instance.new("StringValue")
Coins.Name = "Coins"
Coins.Parent = Stats
Coins.Value = 0
local Data = SaveDataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId)
--Everything under this I Have NO clue what any of it is and dont know how do add the coins into it...or if its even necessary.
if Data then
print(Data.Stage)
for i,stats in pairs(Stats:GetChildren()) do
stats.Value = Data[stats.Name]
end
else
print(player.Name .. " has no data.")
end
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
local Humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local Torso = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
wait()
if Torso and Humanoid then
if Stage.Value ~= 0 then
local StagePart = workspace.Stages:FindFirstChild(Stage.Value)
Torso.CFrame = StagePart.CFrame + Vector3.new(0,1,0)
end
end
end)
end)
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
local errormsg = SavePlayerData(player)
if errormsg then
warn(errormsg)
end
end)
game:BindToClose(function()
for i,player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
local errormsg = SavePlayerData(player)
if errormsg then
warn(errormsg)
end
end
wait(2)
end)
I am partially a beginner, so please forgive me if this is an easy fix, or if it was done completely wrong…Really hope I can get this fixed.
Thank you!
(Already did lol)