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How do I save and load leaderstats?

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I have a leaderboard script for leaderstats that works and, I would like to save it. From everything I'm reading online I don't really understand. I'm looking for links that will help me understand and a few answers to my questions code provided below. This is in ServerScriptStorage with a Folder inside of it called leaderstats. API Services was turned on right after I made the leaderstats script.

I don't understand this, it doesn't seem to fit with mine. https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/onboarding/intro-to-saving-data/1

local players = game:GetService("Players")

local function leaderboardSetup(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	leaderstats.Parent = player
	local tix = Instance.new("IntValue")
	tix.Name = "Tix"
	tix.Value = 0
	tix.Parent = leaderstats
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(leaderboardSetup)

while true do
	wait(1)
	local playerList = players:GetPlayers()
	for currentPlayer = 1, #playerList do
		local player = playerList[currentPlayer]
		local tix = player.leaderstats.Tix
		tix.Value = tix.Value + 1
	end
end

When I make the save/load do I put it in the same script if not, do I put it in a script or local script in ServerScriptStorage? Will this script I have work with a save/load? What can I do or what can I change? Help and explanations are appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Anonymous

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Here's the link the helped me with Saving & Loading data (DataStores) AlvinBlox's Tutorial

and after watching that, your code might end up looking like this

local players = game:GetService("Players")

local dataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local tixStore = dataStore:GetDataStore("TixStore")

local function leaderboardSetup(player)
    local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
    leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
    leaderstats.Parent = player
    local tix = Instance.new("IntValue")
    tix.Name = "Tix"
    tix.Parent = leaderstats

    local data
    local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
        data = tixStore:GetAsync(player.UserId.."-tix")    
    end)

    if success then
        tix.Value = data
    else
        warn("Error loading ".. player.Name .."'s data ".. errorMessage)
    end
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(leaderboardSetup)
players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    local data = player.leaderstats.Tix.Value
    local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
        tixStore:SetAsync(player.UserId.."-tix", data)
    end)

    if not success then
        warn("Error saving ".. player.Name .."'s data ".. errorMessage)
    end
end)

while true do
    wait(1)
    local playerList = players:GetPlayers()
    for currentPlayer = 1, #playerList do
        local player = playerList[currentPlayer]
        local tix = player.leaderstats.Tix
        tix.Value = tix.Value + 1
    end
end
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Thank you very much TheBigBro122, I appreciate it. The video explained better than any link I found. I'm going to do some testing and I'll let you know what I end up with. Thanks again!

Anonymous#
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I did some testing after watching the video so I could learn for myself. After comparing my script to yours, everything works perfect! Thanks again, very much appreciated for the help and link.

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