Empty grid validation message

Question

i, I have a grid inside a form with "Submit" and "Cancel" button, where I am loading one row with required entry fields. Also there is an delete icon basides to that row to delete. 
 Now, when I try to submit the form in the browser url by clicking "Submit" button, system is not locaing validation message which is there at grid/form level. Whereas validation message is firing during interface level testing. 
 Any inputs on this please. TIA

Mike Schmitt · Accepted Answer

Please check my reply above from yesterday evening, the thing I mentioned should cover this case, provided my assumptions were correct (you haven't really specified some important details here so i'm left to guess...)

Mike Schmitt · Answer

Are you saying you want there to be a validation shown if the user tries to submit an empty Grid, and your current validations are row-level (and thus not shown when no rows are present)? 
 If my guess above is correct - I suggest you look into section-level validations, and utilize a!validationMessage() (which you can set to fire at submit time), and its condition will check whether no data rows are present. 
 Edit: I forgot, a!validationMessage() is also valid in an Editable Grid, which is perfect for this use case. Thanks for providing your code below, here's the same but with my small addition: a!localVariables(

 local!employees: {
 a!map( id: 1, firstName: "John" , lastName: "Smith" , department: "Engineering" , title: "Director" , phoneNumber: "555-123-4567" , startDate: today()-360 ),
 },
 a!formLayout(
 label: "Add or Update Employee Data",
 instructions: "Add, edit, or remove Employee data in an inline editable grid",
 contents: {
 a!gridLayout(
 totalCount: count(local!employees),
 headerCells: {...},
 /* Only needed when some columns need to be narrow */
 columnConfigs: {...},
 rows: a!forEach(...),
 addRowlink: a!dynamicLink(...),
 rowHeader: 1,
 
 /* ADDED VALIDATION PARAMETER */
 validations: {
 a!validationMessage(
 message: "At least one row is required.",
 showWhen: a!isNullOrEmpty(local!employees),
 validateAfter: "SUBMIT"
 )
 }
 
 
 )
 },
 buttons: a!buttonLayout(...)
 )
)

Empty grid validation message

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