How to save player made values

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#1

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

  1. So the player inserts a value and i want that value to save and the values are stackable so if the player for example saves 2 values 2 different values save to the datastore

  2. I dont know how to make a datastore saving with this

  3. i’ve searched for alot of hours

local function saveData(player) -- The functions that saves data



	local tableToSave = {
	-- What to do here?
    -- how to save the data if the player is adding it and making more and saving them all?
	}
	local success, err = pcall(function()
		dataStore:SetAsync(player, tableToSave) -- Save the data with the player UserId, and the table we wanna save
	end)

	if success then -- If the data has been saved
		print("Data has been saved!")


	else -- Else if the save failed
		print("Data hasn't been saved!")
		warn(err)		
	end
end

local function onChildAdded(instance)
	print(instance.Name .. " added to the workspace")
end
local cache = {}



game.ReplicatedStorage.RequestUser.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, number)
	local video = game.ServerStorage.Video:Clone()
	local data -- We will define the data here so we can use it later, this data is the table we saved
	local success, err = pcall(function()
		data = dataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId) -- Get the data from the datastore
	end)
	
	if success and data then
		-- loading data
	end
	local name = player.UserId
	local playername = player.Name


	


	local success, asset = pcall(MarketPlaceService.GetProductInfo,MarketPlaceService,number)
	local Name = asset.Name
	wait(1)
	if Name then
		local thumbType = Enum.ThumbnailType.HeadShot
		local thumbSize = Enum.ThumbnailSize.Size420x420
		local content, isReady = Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync(name, thumbType, thumbSize)
		video.Parent = startergui.Screen.HomeScreen.Videos
		video.Name = "video"..Name
		video.Vidimage.Video = "rbxassetid://"..number
		video.pfp.Image = content
		video.person.Text = playername
		video.Title.Text = Name
		video.Vidimage.TimePosition = 0.1
		print(number,asset.Name)
	
		wait(1)
		video.Parent.ChildAdded:Connect(onChildAdded)
		wait(.01)
		video.Parent = player.PlayerGui.Screen.HomeScreen.Videos
	else
		return print("Value Doesnt exist")
	end
	
	
	
end)
#2

Instead of making a new table every time you want to save, you should get the table that is saved and insert your new value.
You should first get the existing saved values by using data = DataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId), then use table.insert(data, the_value_you_want_to_add) to add the new value while keeping the old data.
And then use DataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, data) to save it.

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