ProximityPrompt disconnects .Triggered() after using :Clone()

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#1

This is originally intended for bug reports.
Sadly I can’t submit it to that forum yet.

A detailed description
When you use :Clone() on a model containing a ProximityPrompt the function that the ProximityPrompt should fire does not clone along.

How to replicate the bug
Start with an empty baseplate
Add a script and a part with a ProximityPrompt

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In the image bove. the blue arrow points to the script and the red arrow to the ProximityPrompt that we want to clone

The code to insert into the script is:

script.Parent.promt.ProximityPrompt.Triggered:Connect(function()
	print("It works")
end)

local new = script.Parent.promt:Clone()

new.Position=Vector3.new(0,10,0)
new.Parent=workspace

When walking to the original part and triggering the ProximityPrompt it will output “It works”

When walking to the cloned part and triggering the ProximityPrompt it does nothing.

#2

You should put the script in the part that contains Porximity, so that the script gets cloned too

#3 
script.Parent.promt:SetAttribute("PromptType1", true)

local function listenTrigger(Proximity:ProximityPrompt)
	if Proximity:GetAttribute("PromptType1") then
		Proximity.Triggered:Connect(function()
			print("It works")
		end)
	end
end
listenTrigger(script.Parent.promt.ProximityPrompt)
game.Workspace.DescendantAdded:Connect(listenTrigger)

local new = script.Parent.promt:Clone()

new.Position=Vector3.new(0,10,0)
new.Parent=workspace
#4

This probably isn’t working because you duplicate the part “prompt”, making it have 2 parts with the same name.

My guess is, it’s actually listening for the ProximityPrompt in the old part, not the duplicated one.

#5

i connect the trigger before the clone() not after

@NicoleSydor
yes that was the workaround I now implemented
it works but the bug is still in-game

@ryanhawari17 in the example that is doable. yet in my current situation it is not.
after cloning the ProximityPrompt i reconnect the triggered event

#6

If you want that same function to run every time you trigger a ProximityPrompt (any proximity prompt), just remove this condition and listenPrompt to every ProimityPrompt.

New Script 
local function listenTrigger(Proximity:ProximityPrompt)
    Proximity.Triggered:Connect(function()
		print("It works")
	end)
end
for _, proximity:ProximityPrompt in pairs(game.Workspace:GetDescendants()) do
    listenTrigger(proximity)
end
game.Workspace.DescendantAdded:Connect(listenTrigger)

local new = script.Parent.promt:Clone()

new.Position=Vector3.new(0,10,0)
new.Parent=workspace