Ui-Form data are not stored permanently

[zenofmud]

take a read of this thread, it might help you

How To Initial Form UI

I assume you are asking how to initialize a form? This is what I use to pre-fill a drop-down menu. [pre-fiil-form] [{"id":"b5e4059e.5d7a28","type":"inject","z":"4e4657de.9b461","name":"Initial reset","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"str","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":true,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":190,"y":200,"wires":[["d8ec9a42.ad7708"]]},{"id":"a532c2b5.0e645","type":"ui_dropdown","z":"4e4657de.9b461","name":"Data source","label":"","tooltip":"","place":"","group":"9c66415.50bbe4","order…