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Help on how to use DataStores, retrieving and storing?
I'm trying to make a saving database of someone's department in a group, I have a GUI which successfully changes the Department depending on the entry, but then here's my hard part, how to save it to a DataStore and retrieve it afterwards.
My attempt (Store)
local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Departments")
local key = "user_" .. script.Parent.Parent.userId
script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Department.Changed:connect(function()
DataStore:UpdateAsync(key,script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Department.Value)
--This is where it stops working, "Unable to cast value to function"
end)
(Retrieve)
local group = 1234 --GroupID
local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Departments")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
local leadrsts = Instance.new("IntValue",player)
leadrsts .Name = "leaderstats"
local rank = Instance.new("StringValue",leadrsts )
rank.Name = "Rank"
local department = Instance.new("StringValue",leadrsts )
department.Name = "Department"
local key = "user_" .. player.userId
department.Value = DataStore:GetAsync(key)
end)
Any help?
They're both server scripts
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The second argument is supposed to be a function, which is maybe why it says error casting it to a function.
--looking at what you did, it looks like you want it to be updated to the Deparment.Value
--idk if this would work though
local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Departments")
local key = "user_" .. script.Parent.Parent.userId
local leaderstats = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
local Deparment = leaderstats.Department
Deparment.Changed:connect(function()
DataStore:UpdateAsync(key, function(old_value)
local new_value = Deparment.Value
print(string.format("The old value is %s\n The new value is %s", tostring(old_value), tostring(new_value))) -- I tostringed them because I do not know if this if it is an IntValue or an ObjectValue etc.
return new_value
end)
end)
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Unless is a deeper reason for this happening + the reason I gave TheLowOne 85 — 8y