The Ultimate Basic Admin Essentials Guide

[deimantai2 (Levi)]

You should add a section that teaches you how to add like the notification that the server is defended, this is fairly easy but for people who don’t know you should include it.

Edit: And just to tell ya that this guide is great!

[deimantai2 (Levi)]

@LegendOJ1

Opening the Command Bar

In the majority of cases, the reason you’ll want to do this is to open the command bar by pressing a UI button, for example on mobile devices. We can do this fairly easily by adding the following code at the very bottom of the “Basic Admin Client” LocalScript.

local commandBarBindable = Instance.new("BindableEvent")
commandBarBindable.Name = "ToggleCommandBar"
commandBarBindable.Parent = basicAdminFolder

commandBarBindable.Event:Connect(Console) -- open the command bar when the bindable event is fired

Then, we can fire this BindableEvent whenever we want to open the command bar. Let’s say we have a LocalScript inside a GuiButton with the following code:

local commandBarBindable = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Basic Admin Essentials"):WaitForChild("ToggleCommandBar")
local button = script.Parent

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    commandBarBindable:Fire() -- this will open the command bar when the button is clicked
end)

But in this section, you should explain a bit more as its quite confusing…

[deimantai2 (Levi)]

@LegendOJ1

Allowing Copy & Paste In Lists

In many games, BAE is used for moderation, so it can be useful to be able to copy and paste from lists instead of having to type usernames manually.

We can do this by making some minor UI changes, though it should be noted that due to the nature of TextBoxes, it is impossible to allow copy and paste from lists for users on mobile devices. This is due to the fact that we are making the TextBoxes non-editable, which is not respected on mobile, though I’ll welcome any potential solutions to this issue in the comments!

Before we start this section, a small shoutout to one of my favorite plugins - Reclass ! I recommend purchasing this plugin as it will make our job way easier here, but there are also so many things about UI design that this plugin makes easier. If you don’t have Reclass, you can still follow this section, but it will take a bit longer.

1. Firstly, let’s move the Basic Admin UI into the StarterGui. If you don’t know how to do this, read the “Customizing the User Interface” section above.
2. Select the “List Template” under the Base Clip frame, and make it Visible.
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3. Find the TextLabel named “Template” inside the ScrollingFrame of the List Template.
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4. Here’s where Reclass comes in helpful. We need to change this TextLabel into a TextBox object. You can either do this manually by creating a TextBox and copying all the properties, or just use Reclass to convert it. Whatever option you choose, you should end up with the UI looking identical to how it did with a TextLabel.
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5. With our new TextBox, we need to change a couple of properties. Set TextEditable and ClearTextOnFocus to false. When you’ve done that, you’re done with the UI changes. Make sure to make the List Template invisible again, then you can move the ScreenGui back to the Components folder under the MainModule in ServerScriptService.
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6. Now that the UI has been changed, we need to edit some of the code in the Basic Admin Client LocalScript. Open this LocalScript and press Ctrl + F to open the “Find” menu. In the window that opens, search “TextLabel”.
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7. You should see 6 results. On results 1 and 3, we need to change the line to:
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8. Once you’ve changed results 1 and 3 to match the statement above, you’re done! When testing in-game, we can now see that any form of logs (e.g. chat logs) can be highlighted and copied!
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Disclaimer: When I said it was “impossible” to make this work on mobile devices, it is technically possible to make this work on mobile devices too, however there is currently a bug where mobile users can edit the contents of TextBoxes even when the TextEditable property is false.

For this reason, it is not recommended to enable this feature on mobile because they could easily falsify the logs. But to enable it on mobile anyway, simply set the “Active” property of your Template TextBox to true. It will then allow mobile users to edit the contents of the logs, though at least they can copy them.

And i’ve also got a question about the copy and paste are people allowed to edit the message itself? Or just copy and paste?

[Flameysrs]

People aren’t allowed to edit the message, however, those on mobile may be able to edit the logs as its a current bug where the TextEditable property does not affect mobile users, I’m pretty sure this applies to iOS users. Read-only TextBox issue with mobile - #7 by Flameysrs

[Flameysrs]

Hey I’m trying to make it so lists aren’t one line lists and show the entire message/command/whatever string it was in the list with text wrapped. I’ve fixed up the textbox to work in this way but I cannot seem to get the script exact, either the list is too small and doesn’t scroll all the way or at all, or the list is too large and has empty scrollable space. Note: i deleted the frame in the textbox (template) to have a nicer look, can you possibly make a section/help with this

[Flameysrs]

Actually disregard this, I’ve figured it out for the most part. One big thing I want to do, however, is be able to add the player argument to certain commands, like ones that display lists. For example ‘chatlogs flame’ will run chatlogs pre-run with the search for the corrected argument. It will check if the argument matches any players’ name and then search for that for example ‘chatlogs flame’ will run a search with Flameysrs. If the argument is not found to be matching any players, it looks for it in another list (I’ve created a command called leavelogs embedded into the mainmodule which created a list with the username of those who leave). If it cannot find it there, it just runs the search with the argument itself, in this case, just flame. Are you able to help with something like this?

[deimantai2 (Levi)]

@LegendOJ1

Extra: Fixing Command Bar Bug

I’ve asked a friend who is friends with the BAE creator and he said that this function was never broken, cause it was never a function but people just created it themselves!

[LegendOJ1 (Owen)]

Pretty sure the command bar has always come with Basic Admin Essentials but recently the autocomplete on it has been bugged. It happens even for groups using a non-forked up-to-date version of the module.

[Flameysrs]

@LegendOJ1 Do you know if you’re able to do this or help with this

[notillusional (jackson)]

lmk if u still need help on this

[Flameysrs]

yes help would be appreciated with this

[exquicvs (eli)]

Extremely helpful, thank you so much! Cannot wait to see the sticky message and new ban API implemented!

[hveartbrokwen]

If need be, I can help with the TempBans!!!