How to make this using tables or metatables instead of collection service

[lesschaos]

Hi! Basically, I wanted to know how I could change this to utilize meta-tables or regular tables by assigning a value to it, with the value being that players UserId. CollectionService is not the most ideal thing…

local function cleanAssistanceCalls(UserID)
	--local Tagged = CollectionService:GetTagged(UserID)
	--local notificationContainer = baseClip:WaitForChild('Container')
	--if Tagged then
	--	for index,descendant in pairs(Tagged) do
	--		for a,b in pairs(Stacks.Notifs) do
	--			if b == descendant then
	--				descendant:Destroy()
	--				table.remove(Stacks.Notifs, a)
	--				figureNotifs(Stacks.Notifs,notificationContainer)
	--			end
	--		end
	--	end
	--end
	
end

[JohhnyLegoKing]

Personally I would recommend getting used to CollectionService because it has many useful features, but if you insist:

local data = {} -- Example: data[123456] = {}

local function cleanAssistanceCalls(UserID)
	local data = data[UserId]
	local notificationContainer = baseClip:WaitForChild('Container')
	if data then
		for index,descendant in pairs(data) do
			for a,b in pairs(Stacks.Notifs) do
				if b == descendant then
					descendant:Destroy()
					table.remove(Stacks.Notifs, a)
					figureNotifs(Stacks.Notifs,notificationContainer)
				end
			end
		end
	end
	
end

[lesschaos]

yeah, thank you

i ended up going with this, as i think it’s the most compact i could get it:

local function cleanAssistanceCalls(UserID)
	local notificationContainer = baseClip:WaitForChild('Container')
	for a,b in pairs(Stacks.Notifs) do
		if not  Stacks.Type[b] then continue end
		if Stacks.Type[b] == UserID then
			Stacks.Type[b] = nil
			b:Destroy()
			table.remove(Stacks.Notifs, a)
			figureNotifs(Stacks.Notifs,notificationContainer)
		end
	end
end