Several chat tags, for the same player?

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#1

How would I make several chat tags for a player, with the method you would change DefaultChatMessage and add this to it;

if info and info.title then
		formatUseName = string.format(info.title .. " | %s:", fromSpeaker)
		useNameColor = info.color
	else 
		formatUseName = string.format("%s:", fromSpeaker)
	end

Then have a module named title module. What I am trying to do is make several chat tags for the same player, not sure how to do this without errors.

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Bubble chat and chat tags
Help with chat tags
#2

You should create a list of tags for the player and then form a new string based off of it. This can be done by iterating through a list and using concatenation to effectively append new tags.

local tagList = {"A", "B", "C"}

local tagString do
    tagString = ""

    for _, tag in pairs(tagList) do
        tagString = tagString.." "..tag
    end
end

You can then use the newly formed string to place in the tag area.

Is this possible?
#3

Why not use the Lua Chat System api? It let’s you easily add multiple tags to a specific person:

local DefaultTags = {
    {TagText = "Player", TagColor = Color3.new(0,0,1)}, --1st tag
    {TagText = "Rank 1", TagColor = Color3.new(1,0,0)}, --2nd tag
}

local ChatService = require(game:GetService("ServerScriptService"):WaitForChild("ChatServiceRunner"):WaitForChild("ChatService"))

local All = ChatService:GetChannel("All")
All.SpeakerJoined:Connect(function(name)
    local speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(name)
    if speaker and speaker:GetPlayer() then --make sure it isn't a chatbot or such
        speaker:SetExtraData("Tags", DefaultTags)
    end
end)
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Double Chat Tags
Multiple chat tag for players
#4

Better yet, on this same topic, you can do this without relying on a speaker joining a channel (that’s a fairly weird solution). Set tags right as a speaker gets registered with the ChatService. Another note that you don’t need to wait for the ChatService module; cloning is implicit and ChatService is available when the ChatServiceRunner is.

I posted this same code on another thread, I’ll repost it here due to its relevance.

local ServerScriptService = game:GetService("ServerScriptService")

local ChatServiceRunner = ServerScriptService:WaitForChild("ChatServiceRunner")
local ChatService = require(ChatServiceRunner.ChatService)

local SPECIAL_DATA = {
    [6809102] = {
        ChatColor = BrickColor.new("Persimmon").Color,
        Tags = {
            {
                TagText = "Developer",
                TagColor = BrickColor.new("Lime green").Color,
            }
        -- Other tags here
        }
        -- Other message formats here
    },
    -- Other user here
}

local function handleSpeaker(speakerName)
    local speaker = ChatService:GetSpeaker(speakerName)
    local player = speaker:GetPlayer()

    if player then
        local extraData = SPECIAL_DATA[player.UserId]
        if extraData then
            for key, value in pairs(extraData) do
                speaker:SetExtraData(key, value)
            end
        end
    end
end

ChatService.SpeakerAdded:Connect(handleSpeaker)
for _, speakerName in pairs(ChatService:GetSpeakerList()) do
    handleSpeaker(speakerName)
end

This is also how ExtraDataInitializer assigns chat colours for staff and interns.

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#5

That script was useful to me, thanks for the post. :rocket:

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