November 25 Release (v17)
We’re excited to introduce a new set of features and enhancements designed to make Wave Embedded faster, smarter, and more reliable. This release strengthens designer productivity, improves runtime experience, and ensures better consistency across grids and matrices.
Let’s walk through everything that’s new.
What's New?➕
Backup & Restore Enhancements
This release enhances data protection and improves grid continuity in Wave Embedded by giving Designers and Admins greater flexibility in backing up, restoring, and managing their Grids and Matrices. Building on the capabilities introduced in Wave Extension v46, this update brings a more streamlined and Embedded-focused experience.
Key Highlights:
Designer-Only Access Backup and Restore options now accessible only for Designers, keeping standard users focused and preventing accidental configuration changes.
Admin Settings Access For multi-file or bulk operations, Designers and Admins can go to: Wave Admin → Settings → Backup & Restore This central location supports managing multiple backups and handling more advanced scenarios.
Matrix Trial Behavior Backup and restore operations now adapt to your Matrix Trial state:
Not Started: Only grids are backed up/restored.
Active (30 days): Grids and matrices can be backed up and restored.
Expired: Only grids are visible; matrices in backups are ignored.
This update also improves the overall recovery workflow, ensuring that restored components load correctly, appear instantly, and stay aligned with your design. Find out about Backup and Restore here.
Improved Grid and Matrix Behavior During Page Migration
This enhancement makes it easier to move App Pages and Record Pages from Sandbox to Production. Grid and Matrix components now stay fully connected after migration, ensuring your pages continue to work as expected without extra setup.
What’s Improved
Grids and Matrices remain linked after deployment When you migrate Lightning pages that use Grid or Matrix components, the components now load correctly in the target org without requiring cleanup or re-selection in Lightning App Builder.
No more manual fixing after deployment Previously, some components could appear blank or unresponsive because Salesforce didn’t maintain ID references across orgs. This has been resolved, so your pages stay intact after deploying through Change Sets or via any other deployment methods.
Consistent behavior across App, Record, and Home pages All supported page types now open smoothly after migration, with the correct Grid or Matrix configuration already in place.
What Users Need To Do
Back up your Grid/Matrix in Sandbox.
Restore the backup in Production before deploying the page using Wave Admin → Settings → Backup and Restore to ensure components are ready.
Find out more about Migration the App Page and Record Page here.
These updates make Grid and Matrix components migration-safe, reducing manual rework and ensuring a smoother deployment process. Find out how to Migrate grids and matrices from sandbox to production here.
Smarter Field Controls for Your Grids
This release brings stronger control over the behavior of fields inside your layouts, allowing you to guide user input and improve data accuracy. Designers can now control how each column works without changing the Salesforce field metadata.
What You Can Do:
Rename Columns Adjust display labels to suit your business language or improve clarity.
Mark Fields as Required Ensure key fields must be filled in during new record creation.
Mark Fields as Read-Only Make fields visible but locked from editing.
Hide Fields Keep fields out of sight while still using them for rules.
Assign Default Values Pre-fill fields when creating new records, supporting all common data types.
These updates make it easier to fine-tune grid behavior and create cleaner, more consistent data entry experiences.
New Enhancements ✨
Row & Grid Action Improvements
This release introduces several improvements that make Row and Grid Actions more flexible, predictable, and easier for users to work with.
1. Smarter Parameters & Button Control
Grid Actions now support a wider range of parameters, including Constant, Dynamic Field, Session, Selected Records/Ids, and All Records/Ids. Buttons also adjust automatically based on selection requirements, with clear tooltips to guide users.
2. Improved Refresh Options
You now have more control over how grids refresh after actions run. Grid Actions: Always Refresh Selected Rows, Refresh Selected Rows on Success, Always Refresh Grid, Refresh Grid on Success, or Do Not Refresh. Row Actions: Always Refresh, Refresh on Success, or Do Not Refresh.
Note: “Always Refresh Grid” and “Always Refresh Selected Rows” won’t work for Aura or LWC until those components are updated. For success scenarios, we still provide support for older code, but this support may be deprecated in the future.
3. New “Always Enabled” Button Setting
A new option allows Grid Action buttons to stay enabled even when no rows are selected.
Default (unchecked): Button is disabled until one or more records are selected.
Checked: Button stays enabled even when no records are selected.
When enabled, two additional parameters (All Records and All Record Ids) become available for action configuration.
These updates provide more control over action execution and improve flexibility for runtime users.
Enhanced Related List Experience
We’ve upgraded the Related List feature in Wave Grid, giving Designers and Runtime users more flexibility and a clearer, more intuitive experience.
Key Improvements
Full-Screen Overlay: Related lists can now open in full-screen mode as an overlay on top of the main grid, improving visibility and focus.
Full-Screen Overlay Extended Limit: Designers can add up to 6 related lists (previously 4). The “Add New” button automatically disables when the limit is reached.
Extended Limit Reorder Related Lists: Designers can drag and drop related list icons/chips to reorder them. The order is saved in grid metadata. Runtime users can also reorder tabs, with preferences stored in Inter Personal Copy (IPC).
Reorder Related List Tooltip Support: Designers can add or edit tooltips for each related list. Empty tooltips revert to relationship name. Tooltips appear on hover at runtime.
Tooltip Support
These enhancements make related lists more organized, more informative, and easier to work with for every user.
Improved Pending Changes Warning
Wave now helps prevent accidental data loss by alerting users when they try to run actions on unsaved changes.
Key Improvements
Automatic Popup: Displays when a selected record has unsaved changes before a row or grid action.
Clear Messaging: “Please save all pending changes for the selected records before proceeding with the (Row/Grid Action name).”
Action Options:
OK: Saves changes and proceeds if successful; cancels if not.
Cancel: Closes the popup without action.
These updates help prevent accidental data loss and guide users to save changes before running actions.
Dependent Picklist Awareness
We’ve improved Grid Wizard to detect missing controlling or dependent fields when adding Dependent Picklist fields, ensuring grids behave correctly.
Key Improvements
Automatic Detection: Prompts users to include missing controllers or dependents via a modal.
Placement & Order: Auto-added fields appear next to their controllers, preserving order in multi-level chains.
Two-Way Awareness: Suggests upstream controllers and downstream dependents as needed.
Field-Level Security: Shows a non-blocking toast if a required controller cannot be added.
Related Lists & Published Grids: Same detection applies.
Supported Types: Controllers – Picklist, Checkbox; Dependents – Picklist, Multi-select Picklist. Filtered Lookups excluded.
These updates simplify managing dependent fields and prevent configuration errors in grids.
Extended Improvements from Wave Browser Extension v44 and v45 🎉
In addition to the new features introduced in Wave Embedded v17, several key enhancements from Wave Browser Extension v44 and v45 have been extended to ensure a consistent and seamless experience across both platforms.
Wave Browser Extension v44 Enhancements
Enhanced Preview Changes Design
Improved Keyboard Navigation in Grids
Help Text on Column Headers
Simplified Record Selection for Single Object Matrices
Multi-Currency Handling in Matrix
Wave Browser Extension v45 Enhancements
Formula Field in Grids
Support for Rich Text Data Type
Ability to Hide Historical Data
Layout Editor for Matrix Headers
Matrix Totals
Enhanced Contextual Actions in Grids
Legends – Updated User Interface
Enhanced Error Handling for Picklist List of Values
Filter Support for Related Fields (Grids & Matrices)
Configure Measure UI Enhancement
Matrix – Smarter Timeline Filters
For complete details, see the Wave Browser Extension v44 Release Notes and Wave Browser Extension v45 Release Notes.
Bug Fixes 🐛
In this release, we have addressed several issues to improve user experience and functionality.
Record Type–Based Picklist Filtering Fixed an issue where record type–based picklists displayed all values or did not update immediately when the record type field was added or removed. Picklists now show only values applicable to the current record type and refresh automatically when the record type changes.
Dependent Multi-Select Picklist (Checkbox Controller) Resolved a problem where dependent multi-select picklists controlled by a checkbox could not be edited in the grid. Users can now edit dependent fields as expected.
Recent Lookup Values in Lookup Overlay Corrected an issue where the Recent Users section did not update, showing old records. Recent lookups now dynamically reflect the most recently selected or accessed records.
Nested Related List – Removed Related Lists Reappearing Fixed a bug where removed related records reappeared in nested related lists. Once a record is removed, it no longer shows in the list.
Matrix Trial – Floaty Position Not Retained Resolved an issue where the floaty position in Matrix Trial was lost after a page refresh. The floaty now retains its last saved position.
With Wave Embedded v17, you now get smarter actions, smoother navigation, and more intuitive Matrix exploration helping you work with greater confidence and efficiency.
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