Preserve runtime changes option not working when redeploying instances?

Hi Jakob,

What version are you using? 
It would be interesting to sort out why the 'Preserve runtime changes' does not work for you, Its quite reliable, at least in newer versions, I recall some issues with arrays, but normally it should work.
Perhaps the attributes that looses the runtime changes are the ones effected by the pending change?
I can imagine that renaming an attribute might be challenging for matching the checkpoint data, but I need to test to be sure.

Also, might not be easy to answer without testing again, but is all values reverting to initial values or just some?

Please have a look in SMC to verify if you have any issues with your checkpoint data, since it is here the runtime data is stored.

In your test, when you do the redeploy, do you deploy one object or the whole engine with cascade.
Is the engine where objects are running redundant?

It is possible to dump an instance data to SMC using Object viewer, double right-klick on the object and then select Dump.
This will dump a lot of data, not ideal and pretty, but could be used in a scenario where you have no other options.
You will need to manually enter the values after deploy.

Hi Jakob,

What version are you using? 
It would be interesting to sort out why the 'Preserve runtime changes' does not work for you, Its quite reliable, at least in newer versions, I recall some issues with arrays, but normally it should work.
Perhaps the attributes that looses the runtime changes are the ones effected by the pending change?
I can imagine that renaming an attribute might be challenging for matching the checkpoint data, but I need to test to be sure.

Also, might not be easy to answer without testing again, but is all values reverting to initial values or just some?

Please have a look in SMC to verify if you have any issues with your checkpoint data, since it is here the runtime data is stored.

In your test, when you do the redeploy, do you deploy one object or the whole engine with cascade.
Is the engine where objects are running redundant?

It is possible to dump an instance data to SMC using Object viewer, double right-klick on the object and then select Dump.
This will dump a lot of data, not ideal and pretty, but could be used in a scenario where you have no other options.
You will need to manually enter the values after deploy.

Thank you for your comprehensive answer, I will have to look into this further. did not realize about the dump from object viewer! When doing a dump from the object viewer, where would that be stored? Is that a CSV file? I am reluctant to try it until I am sure about what happens...

Hi Jakob,

The information of this dump file is written in the SMC logger.
I don't think it is transferred to a file. I can't find it.
So the last screenshot of Richard is from there.

There you can find the attributes of the object and their value

Hi,

You are correct in that the Dump action writes data to SMC and that's where my screenshot was taken, it will not save anything in file format such as CSV.

You will need to manually copy the result to ie, excel to 'clean it up' or filter it as per requirements.

remember that you can apply filters in SMC as well.