diff --git a/doc/maintaining/filestore.rst b/doc/maintaining/filestore.rst
index ab31b50a4a7..86217507353 100644
--- a/doc/maintaining/filestore.rst
+++ b/doc/maintaining/filestore.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ For example, to create a new CKAN resource and upload a file to it using
 
 .. parsed-literal::
 
- curl -H'Authorization: your-api-key' 'http://yourhost/api/action/resource_create' --form upload=@filetoupload --form package_id=my_dataset
+ curl -H'Authorization: your-api-key' 'http://yourhost/api/action/resource_create' --form upload=@filetoupload --form package_id=my_dataset --form url=url --form name="resource name"
 
 (Curl automatically sends a ``multipart-form-data`` heading with you use the
 ``--form`` option.)
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ To create a new resource and upload a file to it using the Python library
 
  import requests
  requests.post('http://0.0.0.0:5000/api/action/resource_create',
-               data={"package_id":"my_dataset"},
+               data={"package_id":"my_dataset", "name": "resource name", "url": ""},
                headers={"X-CKAN-API-Key": "21a47217-6d7b-49c5-88f9-72ebd5a4d4bb"},
                files=[('upload', file('/path/to/file/to/upload.csv'))])