Yes, I have seen this happen as well. And I spent a lot of time trying to replicate it without being able to pinpoint the cause, although I could see that the front end did not make the api call to update the parameters. My case was "C684074 - Automation returning to default value" but without the ability to find the reason, it was hard to fix.

There was a bug in FME 2019 where Choice (Multiple) parameters which had a space in them would not save in an Automation (the save button reset the parameters). It had to do with space being used as a delimiter for the multi-choice parameter, and funky use of "quotes" "around parameter" "names" in the automation. If you create a plain workspace with a simple text parameter, does it still get reset to defaults?

I can actually reproduce my error pretty easily. It happens whenever I overwrite an existing workspace from Forms that is in an existing automation. I even changed to deployment parameters where I could and eventually had to set up defaults per parameter so it would not break if I made future changes.

I think the issue was with the space in the parameter dropdown list. We have a Dev, Test and Prod environment, to make sure we see if we are in production we made the name GIS Gateway. I removed that option from all workspaces in 1 automation and am no longer able to reproduce the issue.

I have 3 more automations and probably 10 more workspace to go through. This should prove it this was the issue!

Thanks again everyone!

Still have this issue on certain workspaces / automations in FME 2023.1. 23619. It seems to be related to when the automation changes somehow. Difficult to debug, but the end result is that at next time the automation runs it has the default values and not the correct values.

It has happened several times on several workspaces the last months now, so we are trying to figure out what the issue is.

Any more update on this from Safe Software side?