diff --git a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/css/img/emptyFile.png b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/css/img/emptyFile.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95019a7052813523866796d1a3dee5f66cac2a1d
Binary files /dev/null and b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/css/img/emptyFile.png differ
diff --git a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/css/stylesheets.css b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/css/stylesheets.css
index b1194f105dea654be5da52f265b63bf8301f18ee..5f71bf1044bd933905aee94e64c7ebda19e27956 100644
--- a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/css/stylesheets.css
+++ b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/css/stylesheets.css
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ select:focus::-ms-value {
   width: 50px;
 }
 
+.dmn-empty-file {
+  flex-grow: 1;
+}
+
+.dmn-empty-file > label {
+  background-image: url("img/emptyFile.png");
+  width: 50px;
+}
+
 .dmn-download {
   flex-grow: 1;
 }
diff --git a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/dmn/emptyDMN.dmn b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/dmn/emptyDMN.dmn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73f512d15fe89bed7f3029e37912e153ce10ef34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/dmn/emptyDMN.dmn
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/DMN/20151101/dmn.xsd" xmlns:biodi="http://bpmn.io/schema/dmn/biodi/1.0" id="Definitions_1kjh9a2" name="DRD" namespace="http://camunda.org/schema/1.0/dmn">
+  <decision id="Decision_13nychf" name="Decision 1">
+    <extensionElements>
+      <biodi:bounds x="120" y="145" width="180" height="80" />
+    </extensionElements>
+    <decisionTable id="decisionTable_1">
+      <input id="input_1">
+        <inputExpression id="inputExpression_1" typeRef="string">
+          <text></text>
+        </inputExpression>
+      </input>
+      <output id="output_1" typeRef="string" />
+    </decisionTable>
+  </decision>
+</definitions>
diff --git a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/index.html b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/index.html
index 9d1adcc7669d12e899766e8f297087c009d4ae99..3044c8079aaa6eff2f8684cc55530ce75759066a 100644
--- a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/index.html
+++ b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/index.html
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@
       </label>
       <input id="dmn-file-upload" type="file"/>
     </div>
+    <div class="dmn-top-item dmn-empty-file">
+      <label class="clickable" for="dmn-file-empty">
+      </label>
+      <input id="dmn-file-empty" type="button"/>
+    </div>
     <div class="dmn-top-item dmn-download">
       <label class="clickable" for="dmn-file-download">
       </label>
diff --git a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnDownload.js b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnDownload.js
index 147407580e4d32379b0ecaad2009b5235711fbb9..7b627084e44eb89c8dbdfeab58565efc3af1bc7b 100644
--- a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnDownload.js
+++ b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnDownload.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-$('#dmn-file-download').on('click', function () {
-  exportDiagram();
+document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
+  $('#dmn-file-download').on('click', exportDiagram());
 });
 
 function download(filename, dmnXml) {
diff --git a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnUpload.js b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnUpload.js
index 9cdc772b5acab39645c8fc5c4efa6fd460ca1d15..7de06eb124733af9e7736399b0ab2e0476cd8042 100644
--- a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnUpload.js
+++ b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnUpload.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
   $('#dmn-file-upload').on('change', loadDmnFromFile);
+  $('#dmn-file-empty').on('click', loadEmptyFile);
 });
 
 function loadDmnFromFile(evt) {
@@ -13,4 +14,15 @@ function loadDmnFromFile(evt) {
   fileReader.readAsText(dmnFile, "UTF-8");
 }
 
+function loadEmptyFile() {
+  $.ajax({
+    url: 'dmn/emptyDMN.dmn',
+    type: 'GET',
+    contentType: 'text/xml',
+    success: function (data) {
+      openDiagram(data);
+    }
+  });
+}
+
 
diff --git a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnVerifier.js b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnVerifier.js
index 18e0afdbe853fc71020271ca7b77bab01834680a..25d9d6fdf738d13ff4041f8807b8bf5ccdff45f7 100644
--- a/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnVerifier.js
+++ b/dmnverifierfrontend/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/js/dmnVerifier.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-let rootUrl = 'http://localhost:8080/';
+let rootUrl = 'http://192.168.2.109:8080/';
 let dmnApi = rootUrl + 'api/dmn/';
 
 /**