diff --git a/src/app/+community-page/create-community-page/create-community-page.component.ts b/src/app/+community-page/create-community-page/create-community-page.component.ts
index 04d5b8fd39..19e777a454 100644
--- a/src/app/+community-page/create-community-page/create-community-page.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/+community-page/create-community-page/create-community-page.component.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 import { Component } from '@angular/core';
 import { Community } from '../../core/shared/community.model';
-import { ComColDataService } from '../../core/data/comcol-data.service';
-import { NormalizedCommunity } from '../../core/cache/models/normalized-community.model';
 import { CommunityDataService } from '../../core/data/community-data.service';
-import { ResponseCacheEntry } from '../../core/cache/response-cache.reducer';
-import { DSOSuccessResponse, ErrorResponse, RestResponse } from '../../core/cache/response-cache.models';
+import { ErrorResponse } from '../../core/cache/response-cache.models';
 import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
-import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import { RouteService } from '../../shared/services/route.service';
 import { Router } from '@angular/router';
 import { RemoteData } from '../../core/data/remote-data';
diff --git a/src/app/core/data/data.service.ts b/src/app/core/data/data.service.ts
index b3b69fdd54..d03891065b 100644
--- a/src/app/core/data/data.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/data/data.service.ts
@@ -18,20 +18,17 @@ import {
 } from './request.models';
 import { RequestService } from './request.service';
 import { NormalizedObject } from '../cache/models/normalized-object.model';
-import { distinctUntilChanged, map, share, withLatestFrom } from 'rxjs/operators';
+import { distinctUntilChanged, map, share, switchMap, withLatestFrom } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import {
   configureRequest,
   filterSuccessfulResponses,
-  getRequestFromSelflink,
   getResponseFromSelflink
 } from '../shared/operators';
 import { ResponseCacheEntry } from '../cache/response-cache.reducer';
 import { HttpOptions } from '../dspace-rest-v2/dspace-rest-v2.service';
 import { HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';
-import { ErrorResponse, GenericSuccessResponse } from '../cache/response-cache.models';
-import { BrowseEntry } from '../shared/browse-entry.model';
+import { DSOSuccessResponse } from '../cache/response-cache.models';
 import { AuthService } from '../auth/auth.service';
-import { NotificationsService } from '../../shared/notifications/notifications.service';
 
 export abstract class DataService<TNormalized extends NormalizedObject, TDomain> {
   protected abstract responseCache: ResponseCacheService;
@@ -130,18 +127,16 @@ export abstract class DataService<TNormalized extends NormalizedObject, TDomain>
     );
 
     const href$ = request$.pipe(map((request: RestRequest) => request.href));
-
-    const requestEntry$ = href$.pipe(getRequestFromSelflink(this.requestService));
     const responseCache$ = href$.pipe(getResponseFromSelflink(this.responseCache));
 
-    const payload$ = responseCache$.pipe(
+    const dsoHref$ = responseCache$.pipe(
       filterSuccessfulResponses(),
       map((entry: ResponseCacheEntry) => entry.response),
-      map((response: GenericSuccessResponse<TDomain>) => response.payload),
+      map((response: DSOSuccessResponse) => response.resourceSelfLinks[0]),
       distinctUntilChanged()
     );
 
-    return this.rdbService.toRemoteDataObservable(requestEntry$, responseCache$, payload$);
+    return this.rdbService.buildSingle(dsoHref$);
   }
 
   public abstract buildCreateParams(dso: TDomain): Observable<string>;
diff --git a/src/app/core/data/dso-response-parsing.service.ts b/src/app/core/data/dso-response-parsing.service.ts
index 9651eb3157..e2d930d88c 100644
--- a/src/app/core/data/dso-response-parsing.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/data/dso-response-parsing.service.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { RestRequest } from './request.models';
 
 import { ResponseParsingService } from './parsing.service';
 import { BaseResponseParsingService } from './base-response-parsing.service';
+import { isNotEmpty } from '../../shared/empty.util';
 
 @Injectable()
 export class DSOResponseParsingService extends BaseResponseParsingService implements ResponseParsingService {
@@ -27,8 +28,11 @@ export class DSOResponseParsingService extends BaseResponseParsingService implem
 
   parse(request: RestRequest, data: DSpaceRESTV2Response): RestResponse {
     const processRequestDTO = this.process<NormalizedObject,ResourceType>(data.payload, request.href);
-    const selfLinks = this.flattenSingleKeyObject(processRequestDTO).map((no) => no.self);
-    return new DSOSuccessResponse(selfLinks, data.statusCode, this.processPageInfo(data.payload))
+    let selfLinks = [];
+    if (processRequestDTO !== undefined) {
+      selfLinks = this.flattenSingleKeyObject(processRequestDTO).map((no) => no.self);
+    }
+    return new DSOSuccessResponse(selfLinks, data.statusCode, (isNotEmpty(data.payload) ? this.processPageInfo(data.payload) : null))
   }
 
 }