Greetings developers! I’m currently facing an issue with datastores and I’m in desperate need of help
I’m trying to make a round history panel where the player is supposed to view their in-game history and the rounds they’ve played as shown in the image below
my issue lies with datastores as when the player rejoins the game the list gets cleared.
I’ve tried following tutorials and serializing data but I don’t think it’s working, because I have no experience with datastores and have never used it before.
here are all the children if that’s going to help, everything in there needs to be saved
All help is appreciated, I’ve been stuck on this for the past few hours
Could you show your current datastore script, just so we can build on that? Also, where exactly is this datastore script located? Preferably ServerScriptService.
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("SaveHistory")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
if not Player.PlayerGui then
repeat
wait(1)
until Player.PlayerGui
end
wait(1)
Player.PlayerGui.MainGui.MotherFrame.HistoryFrame.HistoryScroller.ChildrenNumber.Changed:Connect(function()
local PlayerUserId = Player.UserId
local PlayerData = "Player_TEST6" .. PlayerUserId
local Data = {}
for i, v:Frame in ipairs(Player.PlayerGui.MainGui.MotherFrame.HistoryFrame.HistoryScroller:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("Frame") then
table.insert(Data, {
v.Parent,
v.Player1Image.Image,
v.Player2Image.Image,
v.Player1DName.Text,
v.Player2DName.Text,
v.Player1RName.Text,
v.Player2RName.Text,
v.Result.Text
})
end
local Success, Error
print(Data)
repeat
Success, Error = pcall(function()
DataStore:UpdateAsync(PlayerData, function()
return Data
end)
end)
print("SAVED DATA")
task.wait()
until Success
if not Success then
warn("Failed To Save Data")
end
end
end)
end)
local function LoadData(Player)
if not Player.PlayerGui then
repeat
wait(1)
until Player.PlayerGui
end
wait(1)
local PlayerUserId = Player.UserId
local PlayerData = "Player_TEST6" .. PlayerUserId
local Success, Error
local Data
repeat
Success, Error = pcall(function()
Data = DataStore:GetAsync(PlayerData)
end)
until Success or not Players:FindFirstChild(Player.Name)
if Success and Data ~= nil then
print("5")
for i, obj in ipairs(Data) do
local Frame = game.ServerStorage.HistoryFrame:Clone()
Frame.Parent = Player.PlayerGui.MainGui.MotherFrame.HistoryFrame.HistoryScroller
Frame.Player1Image.Image = obj[2]
Frame.Player2Image.Image = obj[3]
Frame.Player1DName.Text = obj[4]
Frame.Player2DName.Text = obj[5]
Frame.Player1RName.Text = obj[6]
Frame.Player2RName.Text = obj[7]
Frame.Result.Text = obj[8]
end
print("LOADED DATA", Data)
end
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(LoadData)
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
end)
this script is almost a 1:1 copy from a script in a YouTube tutorial, I’m still facing some issues and I’m working on it and yes the script is located in ServerScriptService
this is the error I’m getting for now even though I’m saving a table and not an instance.
You cannot save instances to the datastore. I can see that when getting the data, you don’t even use it, so you should just be able to remove it
The error message is misleading as you can save arrays to the datastore, the error message is probably just saying you can’t save that array because it has invalid utf-8 characters (in this case, an instance)
Yes, good catch, I did not notice that
However, the way it is coded currently, it does work for this structure. Perhaps it was done like this to add more data later on
Not true, DatastoreService does that under the hood, you can store tables directly, and retrieve tables directly as well
