diff --git a/Documentation/Books/Users/Foxx/FoxxQueries.mdpp b/Documentation/Books/Users/Foxx/FoxxQueries.mdpp
index 8f84f27421..f7e7e8a95a 100644
--- a/Documentation/Books/Users/Foxx/FoxxQueries.mdpp
+++ b/Documentation/Books/Users/Foxx/FoxxQueries.mdpp
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Using a transformation with extra arguments (and no query parameters):
 ```js
 var query = Foxx.createQuery({
     query: 'FOR u IN _users SORT u.user ASC RETURN u.user',
-    params: [],
+    params: false, // an empty array would work, too
     transform: function (results, uppercase) {
         return uppercase ? results[0].toUpperCase() : results[0].toLowerCase();
     }
diff --git a/js/server/modules/org/arangodb/foxx/query.js b/js/server/modules/org/arangodb/foxx/query.js
index f2739e188a..7715004368 100644
--- a/js/server/modules/org/arangodb/foxx/query.js
+++ b/js/server/modules/org/arangodb/foxx/query.js
@@ -46,12 +46,14 @@ exports.createQuery = function createQuery (cfg) {
     defaults = cfg.defaults,
     transform = cfg.transform;
 
-  if (params && !Array.isArray(params)) {
+  if (params === false) {
+    params = [];
+  } else if (params && !Array.isArray(params)) {
     params = [params];
   }
 
   if (params && !params.each(function (v) {return typeof v === 'string';})) {
-    throw new Error('Argument names must be a string or an array of strings.');
+    throw new Error('Argument names must be a string, an array of strings or false.');
   }
 
   if (!query || (typeof query !== 'string' && typeof query.toAQL !== 'function')) {