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Any way to detect GuiButton.MouseButton1Down from ServerScript?

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I am trying to make a ServerScript that needs to detect gui button presses. My script does not highlight as an invalid operation, but it simply doesnt work. I don't want to have to use a localscript, as i would like to make this a requireable modulescript.

CloseButton = game.Players.pname.PlayerGui.Gui.Frame.Button
CloseButton.MouseButton1Down:connect(function()
	digga.Enabled = false
end)

Edit: Just to fully clarify this, i do not want to use a RemoteFunction or RemoteEvent as a method, plainly because i want to be able to make a ModuleScript with this in, upload it to Roblox and Require() it in a ServerScript. If you do not know how to solve this without the direct use of a pre-existing LocalScript then your method is not what i'm looking for.

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why do you need to do it on the server?

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because it's going to be in a model that i can require in a script, and that script is gonna be a server script

Anonymous#
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just to clarify - you want to click a button and a model spawns then another script on the server is going to reference that model in a variable?

Anonymous#
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use a remoteevent

Anonymous#
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I don't want to have to use a localscript, as i would like to make this a requireable modulescript.

Anonymous#
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-1. You NEED a local script as user input/user interface should not be known by or handled by the server. Stick with your only option. Use remotes.

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AFTER EDIT: (With ModuleScript)

let's say this is your module script (remember to put it somewhere the localplayer can access like replicatedstorage or workspace)

local module = {}
module.Model = game.Workspace.Model

function module.CloneModel()
	local modelClone = module.Model:Clone()
	modelClone.Parent = game.Workspace
end
return module

require module from localscript and call it's clone model function

module = require(game.Workspace.ModuleScript)
module.CloneModel()

alternatively, you could get the model from the module script and clone the model in the local script:

module = require(game.Workspace.ModuleScript)
model = module.Model
local modelClone = model:Clone()
modelClone.Parent = game.Workspace

#BEFORE EDIT: (With Remote Events) Create a remote event object in the replicated storage and name it "spawnModel"

fire the remote event to send to the server when the player clicks a button

closeButton = script.Parent.Frame.Button

closeButton.MouseButton1Down:connect(function()
    game.ReplicatedStorage.spawnModel:FireServer("modelNameGoesHere")
end)

Have a function be called when that remote event gets fired spawning the model: 

--function that spawns our model
local function spawnModel(player, modelToSpawn)
	local model = game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(modelToSpawn)

	--clone the model into the workspace if the model exists 
	if(model)then
		local modelClone = model:Clone()
		modelClone.Parent = game.Workspace
	end
end

--connect the remote event to the function
game.ReplicatedStorage.spawnModel.OnServerEvent:Connect(spawnModel)
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I want to have my script all run from one require() function, but creating then editing the source of a LocalScript from the sever won't work for obvious reasons.

Anonymous#
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alright, i made an edit that should work now

Anonymous#
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if thats not what you are asking for let me know

Anonymous#
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pls reply bc this took me a long time to write

Anonymous#

User input such as this cannot be detected from the server, it has to be picked up by a local script, you can definitely use a ModuleScript and require it localside, and then pass it onto the server any way you want, but there is no definite way for the server to pick up client input.

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