diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 81656787ed0d00e831ec78a868d305788fdc2b8a..7a2ede31e6197ba7724a59873f966db664d43bfb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ minerva (14.0.0~beta.2) unstable; urgency=low
     create data overlay (#939)
   * Bug fix: export to CD could misalign reaction lines that were imported from
     format that didn't require reaction line to be attached to the species (#933)
+  * Bug fix: problem with uploading data_overlays with type included in header 
+    (#936)
 
  -- Piotr Gawron <piotr.gawron@uni.lu>  Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:00:00 +0200
 
diff --git a/frontend-js/src/main/js/gui/AddOverlayDialog.js b/frontend-js/src/main/js/gui/AddOverlayDialog.js
index e9d20fe7b0e2115e44e38828f21b71cdff976efe..c6a5b3fbb9258593146b5869645c659ccc6e1802 100644
--- a/frontend-js/src/main/js/gui/AddOverlayDialog.js
+++ b/frontend-js/src/main/js/gui/AddOverlayDialog.js
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ AddOverlayDialog.prototype.processFile = function (file) {
           }
 
           if (overlay.getType() !== undefined) {
+            var typeSelect = $("[name='overlay-type']", self.getElement())[0];
             if ($("option[value='" + overlay.getType() + "']", typeSelect).length === 0) {
               GuiConnector.warn("Invalid type: " + overlay.getType());
             }
diff --git a/frontend-js/src/test/js/gui/AddOverlayDialog-test.js b/frontend-js/src/test/js/gui/AddOverlayDialog-test.js
index 5ee5b21065af10119bda8e5ffa10f7dc1edaca6c..1618a2b1c81f39e94bca3205e2b422c02c0b7616 100644
--- a/frontend-js/src/test/js/gui/AddOverlayDialog-test.js
+++ b/frontend-js/src/test/js/gui/AddOverlayDialog-test.js
@@ -76,6 +76,19 @@ describe('AddOverlayDialog', function () {
         assert.equal("GENERIC", dialog.getType());
       });
     });
+    it('set type from header', function () {
+      var dialog;
+      return ServerConnector.getProject().then(function (project) {
+        dialog = createDialog(project);
+        return dialog.init();
+      }).then(function () {
+        return helper.stringToBlob("#TYPE=GENETIC_VARIANT\ns1\n");
+      }).then(function (file) {
+        return dialog.processFile(file);
+      }).then(function () {
+        assert.equal("GENETIC_VARIANT", dialog.getType());
+      });
+    });
   });