I made an inventory GUI so now i just need to make it save each player’s inventory when they get a new item.
if you can’t just save a straight table to datastore then how would you save an inventory with many items in it?
All help is appreciated.
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You can save data in a table using GlobalDataStore:SetAsync(), not sure if I’m just interpreting the question wrong?
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i was hearing that you can’t just save a table by itself but you need to do it in a different way
if you can just save a table to datastore then that would make it much easier to make an inventory.
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You may have heard that you’d need to run HttpService:JSONEncode() on it to turn the table into a string but IIRC it is completely unnecessary as Roblox turns the table into a string with or without the JSONEncode function. Summed up it’s just repeating a function that Roblox is already running and a general waste of time.
tl;dr yes you can use :SetAsync() without doing anything to the table
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You can save tables into data store my setting them to a specific key within the data store.
local Inventory = { -- Example Player Inventory
["Item"] = 101,
]
game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player) -- Checking if player is leaving game
local Success, Error = pcall(function()
return game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("DATA_STORE_NAME_HERE"):SetAsync(Player.UserId.."Inventory", Inventory)
-- Setting the data for inventory for the player
end)
if Error then
warn(Error) -- Showing there was error (Can also keep in log to fix)
end
end)
This is an example version, I did real quick but the key aspects to see is that you are able to save tables as keys in a data store. In an optimal method, you should use :UdateAsync() to set the data instead of :SetAsync() in order to prevent some chances of data loss. Hope this helped 
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So could i save a :GetChildren() table to datastore?
becuase it would be easy to just save Inventory:GetChildren()
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No because :GetChildren returns a table of objects within an instance. I suggest instead putting all the values with their names in a table and saving that table. So for example:
-- Inside the player removing
local InventorySaveTable = {}
for i, v in next, InventoryFolder:GetChildren() do
InventorySaveTable[v.Name] = v.Value -- Assuming all that you want to save are object values
end
-- Continue onto to saving the data
This is a simple concept of it but I hope you see what I am trying to relay.
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How will I get async so it can be stored in a string value inside ServerStorage? I also want to set it from the same string value. I think I don’t know how to store tables in a string value and vice versa.
local rCodes = Instance.new("StringValue",playerData)
rCodes.Name = "RCodes"
rCodes.Value = "{}"
pcall(function()
rCodes.Value = DataStores:GetAsync(player.UserId.."-RC") or "{}"
end)
--This is my code. I don't know how to fix it, it crashes datastores without error.
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How can I save this?
local Ranks = {
Owners = {
"AEW745";
"Player1";
Owner = true;
CanBan = true;
CanKick = true;
CanUnBan = true;
PunishButtonVisible = true;
};
HeadAdmins = {
Owner = false;
CanBan = true;
CanKick = true;
CanUnBan = false;
PunishButtonVisible = true;
};
Admins = {
Owner = false;
CanBan = false;
CanKick = true;
CanUnBan = false;
PunishButtonVisible = true;
};
Mods = {
Owner = false;
CanBan = false;
CanKick = false;
CanUnBan = false;
PunishButtonVisible = false;
};
}
return Ranks
refrain from necro posting. But, something like this should work.
-- Variables
local DS = game:GetService('DataStoreService')
local playerData = DS:GetDataStore('playerData')
local Ranks = {...} -- Data
playerData:SetAsync(key, Ranks) -- replace key with player key (E.x player.UserId..'Rank')
-- Use these 2 lines when you want to save the Data. (E.x PlayerRemoving)
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What is necro posting? Can you please explain that?
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its when you go into really old (already solved) threads and post to bring it back to the public’s attention. Making a new thread with your question is a better alternative.
Well, I didn’t want to make a new thread because I didn’t want to make duplicate topics even though none of them answer my question it might be seen as a duplicate. Therefore, I posted my question here to avoid ending up with duplicate topics or topics similar. My question is similar but has a lot of differences.
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Sorry to bump this again everyone, but how would I use GetAsync to retrieve specific values?
My code:
Saving:
local plrValues = {
["Checks"] = checks,
["Iron"] = iron,
["Silicon"] = silicon,
}
ds:SetAsync(player.UserId .. "PlrValues", plrValues)
Getting:
local plrValues = ds:GetAsync(player.UserId .. "PlrValues")
Then what? How do a get a value out of the table?
local plrValues = ds:GetAsync(player.UserId, "PlrValues").Iron -- returns the Iron since the GetAsync returns the table you set previously
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why is it necessary to do Http:JSONEncode ???
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Now that I look back, it isn’t necessary or required. Not sure why I added that part. I’ll edit my previous post and correct my mistake.