Make a method to fetch the position of a key in Ordered Data Store

[sc4rydev (DeadEnd)]

It seems like a pretty useful, and obvious method that should already have been thought of being implemented with the push of ordered data stores(also i don’t think it’d take an intern more than a few hours to implement either). Practical uses for such would be displaying individual ranks without the use of external databases.

[catgirlin_space (Rosalina Saige)]

You should support the feature requests that already exist.

Getting the position of a key in an OrderedDataStore

This idea came from another topic, where we couldn’t find the position of a specific key with ease. So here is my proposal: int GetOrderedPositionAsync(String key, boolean Reverse = false) returns the int value of the position in the ordered datastore. So for example if I had a shooter game with 100 different people in the ordered datastore, and it keeps track of kills, say my user is 21st in place for the most kills, I use that function to get his position, which should return 21. Also Rev…

Getting the position of a Key in an OrderedDataStore

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard/extremely inefficient to find the position of a certain key in an OrderedDataStore. Right now, you would need to use a for loop to go through every single key top to bottom until you reach the desired key, and then use the loop’s index variable for the position. Something like :GetPositionAsync() would be extremely useful for stuff like say a global rank display, that tells the player what rank they are without being near the top.

[sc4rydev (DeadEnd)]

Those posts are years old, just because it’s been mentioned before doesn’t mean it can’t be brought up again by someone else. I don’t need to got through pages or google searches to find others before me who have requested the same. Whether or not I’m adding a comment to a post or making my own is support in it’s self for the feature.

[Hooksmith]

Hey @sc4rydev ! I’ve moved the posts to the existing topic. It’s best to accumulate support for a given feature in one single topic, that way it’s easier for us to see that a particular feature has a lot of support over the years and that it should be prioritized!