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ADF 12.x: Changing the List Of Values "No rows to display" text

In this post I describe how I implemented an interesting Use Case where the customer wanted to have an alternate message in the LOV when there is no data found. We all know how this can be changed in an af:table component by simply changing the emptyText property. In a List of Values, this works 'slightly' different. Lets start with the basics By default you will see the following List Of Values, telling you that no data was found: However in the case of my customer, they were not happy with the text. So I had to come up with something else. That is interesting, because the ListOfValues is an ADF component in itself and the individual components inside the LOV cannot be manipulated by means of properties. I had to find a way to get access to the table component inside the List Of Values. The way to do this has been described by Frank Nimphius, a long while ago, in his Forum Harvest posts. To be more specific, it is the harvest of November 2010, section " How-to def