# Bad Request message: Supplied template has nil or empty description

**Category:** [Archetype Designer](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/archetype-designer/30)
**Created:** 2024-09-18 02:13 UTC
**Views:** 41
**Replies:** 1
**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/bad-request-message-supplied-template-has-nil-or-empty-description/5728

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## Post #1 by @linforest

When trying POST an OPT template to EHRBase via the [openEHR-tool](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/openehr-tool), I got an error message (Bad Request): *Supplied template has nil or empty description*.

```
Results

failure 400
{'Vary': 'Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers', 'X-Content-Type-Options': 'nosniff', 'X-XSS-Protection': '0', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate', 'Pragma': 'no-cache', 'Expires': '0', 'X-Frame-Options': 'DENY', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked', 'Date': 'Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:02:03 GMT', 'Connection': 'close'}
{"error":"Bad Request","message":"Supplied template has nil or empty description"}
```

The OPT template is an export file from the [Archetype Designer](https://tools.openehr.org/designer).  The template passes the default validation.

![image|333x499](upload://f2pWwxqa3vaujOhSnXvPhk9wKcK.png)

Why such an error message?  Just because **the fields of the template description**, such as **keywords**, **purpose**, **use** and **misuse**, are empty?   I checked this potential reason.  All these fields have been populated. But I still got the same error message.

Thanks.

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## Post #2 by @linforest

**Solution**:
It seems that the fileds for *Original Author/Publisher* on the tab *Attribution* should also be populated **at least**.

![image|216x139](upload://dsys4DuC5aMgWEUY6aSNqZeuTah.png)

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