# Issue to validate checklist dataset
**URL:** https://discourse.gbif.org/t/issue-to-validate-checklist-dataset/5841
**Category:** Data Publishing
**Created:** [March 24, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/issue-to-validate-checklist-dataset/5841 "2025-03-24T21:05:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@alana.jute](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/alana.jute)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/issue-to-validate-checklist-dataset/5841/1 "2025-03-24T21:05:55Z")
Hi have been getting this message when I submit my checklist dataset to be validated and I am not sure what is the issue and how to fix it.
No data to index. Both interpretationRecordsNumber and dwcaRecordsNumber have 0 records, check ingestion metadata
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### Author:  [@mgrosjean](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/mgrosjean)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2025, 7:17am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/issue-to-validate-checklist-dataset/5841/2 "2025-03-25T07:17:46Z")
Dear @alana.jute
It looks like your archive may be empty. Could you share the link to the dataset that you are trying to publish? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@vechocho](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/vechocho)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/issue-to-validate-checklist-dataset/5841/3 "2025-04-15T01:49:38Z")
Were you able to fix it?
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### Author:  [@alana.jute](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/alana.jute)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/issue-to-validate-checklist-dataset/5841/4 "2025-04-15T12:47:22Z")
Hi Victor
I was able to resolve the issue. Thank you