Remote Event wont fire?

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this issue has been bugging me all day and everyone who i ask has told me that my code should work as it is, i am very very confused.

so basically im making a voting system, and when the player clicks a vote button i need an event to be fired to the server to add to whatever topic they voted for.

below is the localscript located in the GUI:

local repStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local voteInitate = repStorage:WaitForChild("promptVote")
local voteMade = repStorage:WaitForChild("VoteMade")
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local panel = script.Parent.VotePanel
local voting = false
local voted = false
local countdownDisplay = plr.PlayerGui.screenElements.players

function countdown()
    for i = 10, 0, -1 do 
        wait(1)
        countdownDisplay.Text = ("voting will begin in "..i.." seconds!")
    end
end

function startGame()
    
end

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local votePanel = script.Parent.VotePanel

local topicImages = {
    topic1 = votePanel.Story1,
    topic2 = votePanel.Story2,
    topic3 = votePanel.Story3
}

local buttonFolder = votePanel.Buttons

local voteButtons = {
    button1 = buttonFolder.Vote1,
    button2 = buttonFolder.Vote2,
    button3 = buttonFolder.Vote3
}

local voteNumValues = {
    topic1Votes = voteButtons.button1.Value,
    topic2Votes = voteButtons.button2.Value,
    topic3Value = voteButtons.button3.Value
}

function openPanel()
    panel:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(0.5,0,0.5,0), Enum.EasingDirection.Out, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, 0.5)
end

function closePanel()
    panel:TweenPosition(UDim2.new(-2,0,0.5,0), Enum.EasingDirection.Out, Enum.EasingStyle.Sine, 0.5)
end

local topicNumber

voteInitate.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
    if voting == false then
        countdown()
        openPanel()
        voting = true 
        voted = false
        countdownDisplay.Text = "Voting has begun! choose your favorite topic!"
    end
end)

voteButtons.button1.Activated:Connect(function()
    if voting == true and voted == false then
        print("firing event...")
        voted = true
        topicNumber = 1
        voteMade:FireServer(topicNumber)
    end
end)```

this checks if the player clicked the vote button and *should* fire the event, "firing event" is printed into the output as expected

here is the server script though:

```lua
local repStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local voteMadeEvent = repStorage.VoteMade

voteMadeEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, topicNumber)
        print("Server event fired!")
    if topicNumber == 1 then
        print("the player "..plr.Name.." chose topic number "..topicNumber)
    end
end)```

--[[topicNumber is the value based on what button the player clicked, in this case its 1 for the first topic, -but "Server event fired!" is never printed, (yes, i did check to make sure that the script is enabled)

not really sure what this is but ive been trying to fix it all day and cant find a solution, hope someone can catch something im doing incorrectly]]--
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Does it input any errors in the output?

3

no, it does not output any errors

4

Can you include your other script that is meant to be firing?

5

ok so funny story, it turns out that this whole time ive been overlooking the server panel in the test server and it was working properly the whole time :expressionless: yay

6

Make sure to mark your post as solved.

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