Open Cloud Engine API for Updating Scripts [Beta]

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#42

Amazing update! I’ll certainly try that in the future :+1:t2:

#43

Wow, This open cloud engine API update will be useful to developers!

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#44

Pretty cool, I just need to understand how it work now… The google sheet thing will be super usefull.

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#45

Let’s goooo
It’s not the main feature of the Open Cloud API that was announced but it sure is a really nice one
Can’t wait for external code editor and external source control for projects

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#46

Alright, it seems a bit buggy, the example given on the doc page seems to work only one item and after he always give the following error “TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘engineInstance’)”

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#47

Never mind find why :
“Live scripting session is active. Please wait for the session to end before making changes.”

Maybe you should precise that in the documentation

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#48

And one more thing, we can’t edit script inside package. Maybe say it somewhere too?

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#49

I am curious, what do you mean “it’ll be useful for live events”? :thinking:

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#50

Great callout! We will add both of these to the documentation

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#51

This is really cool! I managed to make a system where it sync Promo Code from Google Sheets to Roblox ModuleScript!

Definitely have tons of use case for this feature!

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#52

This is awesome. I made a hacky workaround last year to accomplish something similar, but luckily haven’t launched that yet and now I can basically eliminate so many steps with this.

Thanks!

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#53

Does this mean anything for discord bots? :thinking:

#54

This is great! I can see million of possibilities using this.

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#55

Will there ever be a GetDescendants / Get All objects endpoint? As currently I have to loop through every single object then grab the child so can take very long time with a lot of instances

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#56

How do i get the instance id? I’m new to this thing so i do not know how to do stuff, can someone help?

#57

You can find sample code in the reference doc: Engine Instance | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

The first time you use these methods, specify “root” for the instance ID. You will be able to receive the list of top-level children and their instance ids

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#58

We have that method! It’s called ListInstanceChildren: Instance | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

#60

Unfortunately this does not retrieve descendants only direct children which was what I was doing already

#61

Part 7 isn’t possible

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You can’t save, I keep getting an error

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EDIT
For anyone else who gets stuck, you have to actually select the A1 box and go into text edit mode to copy paste. Just copying the box itself will for some reason add “”