Hi Scott and Thomas,

Thank you for your suggestion! I do agree that these are different scenarios - when the Grid has an empty collection and when it is currently waiting to receive the items to display. However, both of these fall under the "no data" category and let me provide some clarification.

By specification, the NoDataTemplate is rendered when the Grid has no data to show. The data requests are made outside of the Grid and thus the Grid has no control over when the items will arrive or even if any items will arrive. In other words, one can make a request to their datasource to fetch the needed data and this may indeed take a while. The key point is that at this stage, the only information that the Grid has is that there are currently no items to show. It is up to the application to manage what will be displayed in the NoDataTemplate based on whether a request is made and the data is awaited or if there are no records to display at all.

Having the above in mind, you can conditionally control the NoDataTemplate content rendering. Here is a basic example: https://blazorrepl.telerik.com/weEeQDut33qz02hu56.

Can you think of any scenario that cannot be covered with this approach? If so, please share a runnable example and I will revise it with the dev team.

Regards,
Nadezhda Tacheva
Progress Telerik