In this short excerpt of a piece, you can see, that a tempo doesn’t work after a fermata. If you delete the fermata, a tempo will play back as expected.
Fermata_a tempo.dorico (1.1 MB)
One can always reset the MM marking, hide it, and then set the text to a tempo.
Hi @HeiPet I found that if you switch on the Hold Only override, it works as expected (don’t know exactly the technical reason why it works, but it does 
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This have something to do with the gap (which Hold Only deactivates…):
…infact it also works if you put the Gap% to 0:
But this behaviour (in your original example) is strange, because on Bar 5 the tempo is correctly set at 124 in the Key Editor/Tempo but it seems if the Gap is influencing it in some undesired way.
I tried also setting the note with fermata as half note, and the a tempo works correctly. So the culprit must be the Gap in conjunction with the quarter rest:
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Thanks for posting this project. I can reproduce the problem, and we’ll fix this in a future update. Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.
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Curious if this has been solved, as I Have just experienced a similar problem. If not, no worries as we have the solution suggested By @Christian_R
The problem that Heiko reported in the first post in this thread is indeed fixed, but if you have a similar example that is still causing problems, I’d be interested to see it. Please cut it down to the minimal number of bars and instruments that reproduces the problem and attach it here so I can take a look.