Save table to DataStore

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#14

no it uses no third party module, your the one making the module and handling the actual data saving. It may seem like that since he is creating the data handler as a module script and in another script he is calling functions from that module on whether to save or add data

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#15

How would I get a ban table from a data store? and how would I save this ban table within this data store?

#16

Does the table already have information in it?
If you want to save a table to a datastore, you can do it by something like this:

local Table = {}
YourDataStoreName:SetAsync(Key, Table)
#17

uhh you would saving it using the same key over and over, so when your saving you could use a key like “ban_data_key”.

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#18

He’s using a website for the data store, I don’t want that, I want to save my table to a Roblox data store with DataStoreService.

#19

no he is not. I do not see how he could be using a website to save his data. He is using roblox data store service

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#20

If you want to save a table, you can make and use your own unique key.
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How to do a ban system with DataStore - Help and Feedback / Scripting Support - DevForum | Roblox

#21

you should read up on the roblox data store documentation https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/Data-store

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#22

If you just scroll through the post in his link you will see he’s using third party software to handle a server with the data…

#23

What? Do you mean the link in the reply? Then, no, It’s the official Roblox article for the DataStoreService.

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#24

uhh can you send me the time stamp to where he does that cause I dont see it

#25

Its in post#9 by @Jackscarlett

#26

The link I sent you was a video not his post.

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#27

Its not, its made by someone called @F_xnn.

#28

I was talking about his post, sorry I didn’t know you were talking about the vid you sent me. because I replied to @Jackscarlett, saying that it contains third party software, and you said it didn’t.

#29

I’m on mobile but if you have a DataStore “BannedPlayersStore” then you can :SetAsync(“bannedplayer-”…userId, true) and when you getasync(“bannedplayer-”) it should be true which means they’re banned.

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#30

Could you explain perhaps a bit more, I’m still a bit confused. :sweat_smile:

#31

this is also a reasonable way to do it too

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#32

How would I connect a table of User Id’s to this data store?

#33

So a datastore is already a dictionary (table with string indices) as it is.

local dataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("BanndedPlayersList")

Now we can just set the keys of the dictionary to UserIds of banned players.

-- we make the userId into string to avoid a table and create dictionary instead
dataStore:SetAsync(tostring(player.UserId), true)

Now whenever you want to check if a certain player is banned

if dataStore:GetAsync(tostring(player.UserId)) then
   print "Player is banned"
else
   print "Player is not banned"
end