profilestore data editing help

[sick jungle]

so i have a game that uses profilestore. if i have a template like the image shown, how can i change all players' data?

For example, if i want to rename "Wanderer" to "Explorer" how would i be able to do that for all players with existing data?

[formal island]

** You are now Level 12! **

[molten yoke]

You don't.

what you instead do is write migration code that updates a player's savedata to latest version and validates/verifies their data, renaming things as needed.

basically, you need to think about this from the opposite direction. you can't just "change all existing player savedata" that's not practical. you instead "change"/verify/update/etc the player savedata when they join.

and part of that can be a renaming rule

bear in mind you probably won't be able to ever use the original name for anything ever again without getting collisions, so if you want to be able to use the original name you'll need to make it version sensitive, i.e only rename if the savedata is older than a certain date

good luck

[sick jungle]

this makes sense i figured this is what id have to do but didnt know if there was another way

i looked thru documentation and couldnt find naything

this makes sense thank you very much

[molten yoke]

there is no other way. version migration is the only viable technique.

which means somewhere in your code, somehow, always, every little mistake you've ever made when building out the profile data will be recorded somewhere, forever. 🙂

[sick jungle]

[quiet steeple]

add Version = 1 smth like that

if the current version is greater than the datastore said version, update with the version table

local currentVersion = game.ServerStorage.DataStoreVersion.Value
local versions = {
  [1.1] = function(data)
    data.Coins = 0 -- resets coins
    return data
  end
}

[sick jungle]

i will do that

thank you