Display a message within the Kendo grid when it's empty

Question

I'm trying to display a friendly message (like "No records found, try again later") within the grid content, when there are no records in the database.

From what I've seen in the docs, there is currently no way of doing this for the grid content. It's only doable for the footer. You can see the example in this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/lav911/uNWXJ/

I've purposely misspelled the data route, in order to have an empty grid. To see it with content, simply comment / uncomment these lines:

transport: {
            // read: "http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Customers"
            read: "http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/service/Northwind.svc/Customerss"
        },

Is there a clean way of achieving this ?

Answer 1

Good news- this option is available now:

https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/ui/grid/configuration/norecords#noRecords

you can set message via kendo template:

noRecords: {
    template: "No data available on current page. Current page is: #=this.dataSource.page()#"
}

or via message option:

noRecords: true,
messages: {
    noRecords: "There is no data on current page"
}

default text is "No records available." when set noRecords: true only