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How can i datastore an leaderstats stringvalue?

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4 years ago

How can i datastore an leaderstats stringvalue? i have a leaderstats script and datastore script they are different scripts leaderstats script:

01local function onPlayerJoin(player)
02    local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
03    leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
04    leaderstats.Parent = player
05 
06    local Clicks = Instance.new("IntValue")
07    Clicks.Name = "Clicks"
08    Clicks.Value = 0
09    Clicks.Parent = leaderstats
10 
11    local Prestiges = Instance.new("IntValue")
12    Prestiges.Name = "Prestiges"
13    Prestiges.Value = 0
14    Prestiges.Parent = leaderstats
15 
16    local Gold = Instance.new("IntValue")
17    Gold.Name = "Gold"
18    Gold.Value = 0
19    Gold.Parent = leaderstats
20 
21    local Rank = Instance.new("StringValue")
22    Rank.Name = "Rank"
23    Rank.Value = "Noob"
24    Rank.Parent = leaderstats
25end
26 
27game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerJoin)
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datastore script:

01local DS = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("SaveMyData")
02game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
03    wait()
04    local plrkey = "id_"..plr.userId
05    local savevalue = plr.leaderstats.Clicks
06    local savevalue2 = plr.leaderstats.Prestiges
07    local savevalue3 = plr.leaderstats.Gold
08 
09    local GetSaved = DS:GetAsync(plrkey)
10    if GetSaved then
11        savevalue.Value = GetSaved[1]
12        savevalue2.Value = GetSaved[2]
13        savevalue3.Value = GetSaved[3]
14        print("Datastored")
15    else
16        local NumbersForSaving = {savevalue.Value, savevalue2.Value, savevalue3.Value}
17        DS:GetAsync(plrkey, NumbersForSaving)
18    end
19end)
20 
21game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
22    DS:SetAsync("id_"..plr.userId, {plr.leaderstats.Clicks.Value, plr.leaderstats.Prestiges.Value, plr.leaderstats.Gold.Value})
23end
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;( stevenfury91 -17 — 4y

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DemonsEmperor 26

4 years ago

As far as I am aware, you cannot save a string value. What I would suggest is to have the Rank be a IntValue also, then have a separate script that loads something like

01local function onPlayerJoin(player)
02        local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
03        leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
04        leaderstats.Parent = player
05 
06        local Clicks = Instance.new("IntValue")
07        Clicks.Name = "Clicks"
08        Clicks.Value = 0
09        Clicks.Parent = leaderstats
10 
11        local Prestiges = Instance.new("IntValue")
12        Prestiges.Name = "Prestiges"
13        Prestiges.Value = 0
14        Prestiges.Parent = leaderstats
15 
16        local Gold = Instance.new("IntValue")
17        Gold.Name = "Gold"
18        Gold.Value = 0
19        Gold.Parent = leaderstats
20 
21        local Rank = Instance.new("StringValue")
22        Rank.Name = "Rank"
23        Rank.Value = "Noob"
24        Rank.Parent = leaderstats
25 
26            local RankSave = Instance.new("IntValue")
27        RankSave.Name = "RankSave"
28        RankSave.Value = 0
29        RankSave.Parent = leaderstats
30end
31 
32game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerJoin)
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then save the "RankSave" instead of the "Rank"

then I would use a script that runs in a playerGui (I like to do that because it can make and detect changes to server)

the script would read

01wait (2) --gives time for data to load
02 
03onchange() --this will run the script once so that it loads up one time without detecting a value change
04 
05function onchange()
06      local ranksave = script.Parent.Parent.leaderstats.RankSave
07      local rank = script.Parent.Parent.leaderstats.Rank
08      if ranksave.Value == 0 then
09      rank.Value = "Noob"
10 
11      --Continue else if for all ranks you want to have     
12 
13      end
14end
15script.Parent.Parent.leaderstats.RankSave.Changed:Connect(onchange)

then as the game goes on, change the ranksave instead of the rank and this script can change the rank string value.

I hope this helps and makes sense!

@DemonsEmperor where do i put the wait(2) script stevenfury91 -17 — 4y

How can i datastore an leaderstats stringvalue?

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