How to make a button clone a TextLabel

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#1

The title is pretty self-explanatory.

I need to make a local button that shows up on one person’s gui clone a TextLabel onto a global gui using a Script, LocalScript, and RemoteEvent.

LocalScript vvv

local btn = script.Parent
local frame = btn.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Frame
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local label = script.Parent.Parent
local event = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Event

btn.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	frame:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.5, 0, 0.05, -20), nil, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, 2)
	wait(4)
	frame:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.5, 0, 0.05, -150), nil, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, 2)
end)

function fire()
	event:FireServer(btn.Parent.Text, btn)
end

btn.MouseButton1Click:Connect(fire)

Script vvv

local event = script.Parent.Event
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local gui = game.StarterGui.staffGui.staffFrame.ScrollingFrame

event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, text)
	for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do --this is to do this for everyone.
		gui.Order:Clone()
	end
end)
#2

parent the cloned object, gui.Order:Clone().Parent = gui

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#3

No luck. Here’s the edited script:

local event = script.Parent.Event
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local gui = game.StarterGui.staffGui.staffFrame.ScrollingFrame

event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, text)
	for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do --this is to do this for everyone.
		local clone = gui.Order:Clone()
		clone.Parent = gui
	end
end)
#4

if this is a local script, don’t use onserverevent, also if it’s a server script, don’t use game.Players.LocalPlayer because the player can only be found on local scripts

#5 
local plrs = game:GetService("Players")
local prl = plrs.LocalPlayer

local gui = script:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA("ScreenGui")
local frame = gui:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Frame", true)
local event = gui:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("RemoteEvent", true)
local label = gui:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("TextLabel", true)
local button = gui:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("TextButton", true)

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	frame:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.5, 0, 0.05, -20), nil, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, 2)
	task.wait(4)
	frame:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.5, 0, 0.05, -150), nil, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, 2)
	
	event:FireServer(label.Text)
end)

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local serverService = game:GetService("ServerScriptService")
local event = serverService:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("RemoteEvent")
local order = serverService:FindFirstChild("Order", true) --move the guiobject named order to the serverscriptservice with the script and remoteevent

event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, text)
	for _, player in ipairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
		local clone = order:Clone()
		clone.Parent = player:FindFirstChildOfClass("PlayerGui"):FindFirstChildWhichIsA("ScreenGui") --add further instance references here if necessary
	end
end)

Would be easier if we knew the Gui structure (order of GuiObject instances).

#6

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#7

Also, the problem is, the label is going to be duplicated multiple times, based on how many tools are in a folder.

Edit: Why do I need to move the script and event along with the textlabel named order to serverscriptservice?