diff --git a/examples/app-showcase/src/system/translations/index.ts b/examples/app-showcase/src/system/translations/index.ts
index 284ea770c2..755ef79c9a 100644
--- a/examples/app-showcase/src/system/translations/index.ts
+++ b/examples/app-showcase/src/system/translations/index.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,25 @@ export const ShowcaseTranslationBundle = {
           },
           sync_error: { label: 'Sync Error' },
         },
+        // The FIRST `_views` block on the `en` side of this bundle, and
+        // deliberately not a mirror of the zh-CN one below: view LABELS are
+        // already English in `ui/views/task.view.ts`, so restating all fifteen
+        // here would be fifteen fake translations of the kind this bundle's
+        // header warns about. What earns an entry is the `emptyState` fixture
+        // (#7714): the surface-matrix check wants the SAME key resolving to
+        // different copy per locale, and a key present only in zh-CN cannot
+        // show that — an en session would be reading the view's inline source
+        // string through the fallback path, which is a different code path and
+        // proves nothing about the resolver. So this pins the en arm of that
+        // one key group, and nothing else.
+        _views: {
+          urgent: {
+            emptyState: {
+              title: 'No urgent tasks',
+              message: 'Nothing needs immediate attention right now. A task appears here as soon as its priority is raised to Urgent.',
+            },
+          },
+        },
       },
       showcase_account: {
         label: 'Account',
@@ -247,7 +266,19 @@ export const ShowcaseTranslationBundle = {
           // The default list — keyed `default`, see showcase_project above.
           default: { label: '全部任务' },
           in_progress: { label: '进行中' },
-          urgent: { label: '紧急' },
+          urgent: {
+            label: '紧急',
+            // The showcase's only `emptyState` specimen (#7714) — the view is
+            // authored with one in `ui/views/task.view.ts`, so this is the
+            // locale half of that fixture. Two new source labels enter the
+            // extractor's expected set here; both are translated in the same
+            // change, which is what keeps check:i18n-coverage's frozen
+            // untranslated count for this example unmoved in either direction.
+            emptyState: {
+              title: '暂无紧急任务',
+              message: '当前没有需要立即处理的事项。任务优先级调整为「紧急」后会出现在这里。',
+            },
+          },
           done: { label: '已完成' },
           tabular: { label: '任务清单' },
           grid: { label: '表格' },
diff --git a/examples/app-showcase/src/ui/views/task.view.ts b/examples/app-showcase/src/ui/views/task.view.ts
index 934f37c467..337230eb45 100644
--- a/examples/app-showcase/src/ui/views/task.view.ts
+++ b/examples/app-showcase/src/ui/views/task.view.ts
@@ -74,6 +74,33 @@ export const TaskViews = defineView({
       data,
       columns: [{ field: 'title' }, { field: 'project' }, { field: 'assignee' }, { field: 'status' }, { field: 'priority' }, { field: 'due_date' }],
       filter: [{ field: 'priority', operator: 'equals', value: 'urgent' }],
+
+      // ── The showcase's `emptyState` specimen (#7714) ──────────────────────
+      // Authored HERE, on a filtered saved view, and not on some unfiltered
+      // object list: emptiness means different things on the two. An empty
+      // unfiltered list is a SETUP state ("nothing exists yet") that the seed
+      // deliberately never produces; an empty filtered view is a STEADY state
+      // ("nothing matches right now") that a running deployment hits
+      // constantly — and on *this* filter it is the outcome you want, so the
+      // copy can report good news instead of nagging about missing data. That
+      // is the case per-view empty-state copy exists for, which makes this the
+      // spelling worth pinning as the fixture.
+      //
+      // It is also reachable without touching the seed: the two urgent seed
+      // rows are exactly what the `bulk_actions` view's `showcase_mark_done`
+      // is there to clear, so a demo user empties this view by using the app.
+      //
+      // Consumed as a translation surface at
+      // `objects.showcase_task._views.urgent.emptyState.{title,message}` —
+      // both locales are authored in `system/translations/index.ts`. Until
+      // this fixture existed the spec declared that key group with no
+      // reachable instance anywhere under `examples/`, so the i18n
+      // surface-matrix check had nothing to resolve and was waived rather
+      // than run.
+      emptyState: {
+        title: 'No urgent tasks',
+        message: 'Nothing needs immediate attention right now. A task appears here as soon as its priority is raised to Urgent.',
+      },
     },
     done: {
       label: 'Done',