Help with filtering my message command

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Greetings, fellow developers.

I need help with creating my message command. I’m currently trying to create a command that shows text when it’s used. When someone says it in the chat box, it shows a ScreenGui and shows the message of the user that used the command. Like this:

:topmessage Welcome to my game!

“Welcome to my game!” would be visible on a GUI for everyone in the server.

The problem I am currently having with this is filtering inappropriate words. I’ve looked at the Developer Hub but I’m not advanced at scripting, so I’m currently out of options.

Here’s my current server script so far:

local Settings = {
	["GroupId"] = "4789069";
	["AllowedRank"] = 13
}

local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local event = replicatedStorage.FilterText

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	
	plr.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
		local messageArgs = msg:split(" ")					
						
		if messageArgs[1]:lower() == ":topmessage" and plr:GetRankInGroup(Settings.GroupId) >= Settings.AllowedRank then
			
			local commandReason = msg:sub(messageArgs[1]:len() + 2,-1)
			local player = plr.Name
			
			game.ReplicatedStorage.SendTopMessage:FireAllClients(commandReason, player)
			
			print(plr.Name .. " has shouted: " .. commandReason) -- Debug
			
		elseif msg == ":clrtop" and plr:GetRankInGroup(Settings.GroupId) >= Settings.AllowedRank then
			
			local player = plr.Name
			game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoveMessage:FireAllClients(player)
			
		end
	
	end)
	
end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.FilterText.OnServerInvoke = (function(player, commandReason)
 local filteredTextResult = TextService:FilterStringAsync(commandReason, player.UserId)
 return filteredTextResult:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()
end)

Here’s my local script inside the GUI:

game.ReplicatedStorage.SendTopMessage.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(commandReason,player)
	script.Parent.Enabled = true
	local filteredText = game.ReplicatedStorage.FilterText:InvokeServer(commandReason)
	script.Parent.Message.Text.Text = commandReason
	script.Parent.TitleBar.Title.Text = "Pinned Message from "..player
end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoveMessage.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(player)
	print(player.." has cleared the shout")
	script.Parent.Enabled = false
end)

If you think I need to add, remove, or change anything to the scripts above, please let me know.

Thank you all for your help!

2

Is the filtering not working I assume the problem?

Studio will not filter text if you are doing it in Studio testing, by the way.

Chat also has string filtering functions you can use.

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3

I published the game and tried to see if it will filter in-game, it still didn’t work.

4

If anyone can help me out with this, please let me know!

5

This may not be the solution, but why not just filter the string before doing FireClient?

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6

Thank you SO MUCH, I moved the filtering to before the client gets fired.

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