Server script won't show/hide UI

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#1

Hi, you may be thinking: “Well duh, server-scripts can’t change UI for players.” well, I am doing it through the players PlayerGui, so that is where this question pops in.

For some reason, this script is failing to enable/disable a UI if a player is under a set perm in a datastore. I just can’t wrap my head around why it isn’t working. I’ve tried using a in-game explorer to change my perm level, i’ve tried to delete the perm all in one, etc etc. Any ideas?

Code:

local PermTable = {

["Player"] = 1,
["Moderator"] = 2,
["Administrator"] = 3

}


game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)

local plrID = plr.UserId

if game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("DataFolder"):WaitForChild(plrID).Data.PermissionLevel.Value >= 2 then
	
	plr.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("KronozAdminPanel").Enabled = true
	
else
	
	plr.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("KronozAdminPanel").Enabled = false
	
end

end)

( Also instead of making a new question for this, how could I go about incorporating the PermTable and checking perms through that with the datastore values? )

#2

So is this a serverscript inside a gui? If not where is it?

#3

This would be a ServerScript inside ServerScriptService.Kronoz

#4

if game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild(“DataFolder”):WaitForChild(“plrID”).Data.PermissionLevel >= 2 then

This may be your issue? Are you trying to wait for a folder inside DataFolder named after the player’s UserId? If so you have put the variablename into speechmarks.

#5

I have fixed that, but it still seems that the UI didn’t go away. Odd.

I’m updating the current code

#6

Run prints before you turn it off or on and maybe print the permission level to see if thats the conflict.

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#7

Running prints is a great idea. What output do you get so far?

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#8

ah, i’ve narrowed it down. It turns out I guess my script to change my player perm to 1 went after the script that checked player perms. My bad!

Thank you both for helping throughout this!

#9

No problem, make sure to consistently run prints and debug before you come here! The hardest bugs can simply be solved using the basic print tool.

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#10

Will do. Would you happen to know how to make other scripts go before the other? If that is possible or makes sense?

( in simpler terms, is there a way to have scripts go in a specific order? )

#11

Disable all the other scripts and have a script activate them in order OR
Each script waits till a certain something is done or true.

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