How to make a condition fire if there is no tool with such an attribute

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Well, I’m trying to ensure that if there is no tool with the “IngredientJob” attribute, the condition is met. Trying to do this I get the following error: attempt to index nil with 'GetAttribute'

elseif not character:FindFirstChild(SelectedObject):GetAttribute("Type_Tool") == "IngredientJob" then
	print("True")
end
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elseif not character:FindFirstChild(SelectedObject,true):GetAttribute("Type_Tool") == "IngredientJob" then
	print("True")
end

Maybe Try this

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Also “SelectedObject” Should be a string

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“SelectedObject” is the name of a tool searched with GetChildren. Wait a minute, I’m going to try this:

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Well, it keeps giving me the error. I have no idea what to do

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Are you sure the attribute is named that way?
if yes then send a picture

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Yes. Maybe, if you don’t have any tool and you activate the function, when trying to find the tool, it gives the error because there is no tool that can collect the attribute

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elseif character:FindFirstChild(SelectedObject,true):GetAttribute("Type_Tool") ~= "IngredientJob" then
	print("True")
end

what about you try this then?

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It still gives the same error, maybe I should mess with GetChildren

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yea I think you should check something there

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Well, at the end I put:

elseif character:FindFirstChild(SelectedObject):GetAttribute("Type_Tool") == "IngredientJob" then
--two condition
else
	print("True")
end

and it worked

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local tool = character:FindFirstChild(SelectedObject)
if tool then
	local attVal = tool:GetAttribute("Type_Tool")
	if attVal == "IngredientJob" then
		--stuff here
	end
else
	--stuff here
end

You should be doing this in parts to mitigate the risk of errors. Your error was occurring because you were calling the instance method :GetAttribute() through a nil value (when the tool wasn’t found in the player’s character).