How can I make a UI That stays only once

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#1

Hello! How can I make a UI That only shows up once? Let’s say there was an update GUI, and you join, close it, and rejoin, it won’t show it anymore. How can I do that?

If you know, it’ll be appreciated!

How do I make a GUI only show once for a player when they join and when they rejoin it wont show
#2

Generally you would use DataStores to save whether a player has played before.

How can i add a do not show this gui agin to a gui
#3

Try something like this:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

local YourDataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("YourDataStore")


game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
        pcall(function()
		if not YourDataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId) then
			-- Do stuff that only executes once (show the ui in your case)
			YourDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId,true)
		end
        end)
end)
#4

Always wrap DataStore updates inside a pcall in case the service fails, so that you can retry.

#5

Pcall does not retry, it just silences any errors and returns them as a function.
But yes, edited!

#6

It is recommended practice to wrap DataStore updates inside a pcall. DataStoreService can fail.

#7

I know, that’s true, but I you said that they retry and thats wrong: they only silence the error.

#8

i think this is it

#9

I didn’t say that pcall directly retries, I insinuated that a pcall error should be met with another attempt in good game development.

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