Help with Data Stores

[void meadow]

I'm trying to understand them and none of the videos I watch help, it looks way too messy to me. Could someone give a quick explanation rq?

[marsh horizon]

you use datastore service

and then you save

[hollow lily]

Hmm... Specify which part exactly.

Because they are pretty easy once you get to know them.

You basically make a data store and request it

You treat it basically like a dictionary in which there are key, value pairs

Sorry spewed nonesense there

[void meadow]

i mean like the different keys, what's compatible, all that

[hollow lily]

What do you mean compatible?

[void meadow]

cuz I try to get async and it doesnt work, i set it to a value and nah

[void meadow]

it says i use an incompatible value

[hollow lily]

If you want data stores to be active in studio you need to enable them

In game settings, security tab

It's a fail safe so you don't override user data on accident

[hollow lily]

What were you trying to save into it?

Actually, send a code snippet of what are you trying to do

[void meadow]

mb i was doing smth

[void meadow]

I was trying to save intconstrained values and regular integers

[void meadow]

yeah it worked for me in another thing which was really weird

[hollow lily]

Let's get back at it

So at first

You need to request the data store by doing:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("DataStoreName")

While DataStore is the name of the variable where you store the datastore

And DataStoreName is of course the name of the DataStore you want

If the datastore doesn't exist - it creates a new one.

Next, you use SetAsyn() to set data inside the datastore

While UpdateAsync() should be used to update the data inside the datastore

You read data from within datastore using GetAync() which returns a "page" - a dictionary pretty much but of certain size

https://create.roblox.com/docs/cloud-services/data-stores