diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/stateseditor/stateseditorview.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/stateseditor/stateseditorview.cpp
index 3e2bc91e7dd..a0f5e8dbfd1 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/stateseditor/stateseditorview.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/stateseditor/stateseditorview.cpp
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ void StatesEditorView::addState()
     }
 
     try {
+        rootModelNode().validId();
         if ((rootStateGroup().allStates().count() < 1) && //QtQuick import might be missing
                 (!model()->hasImport(Import::createLibraryImport("QtQuick", "1.0"), true, true))) {
             model()->changeImports({Import::createLibraryImport("QtQuick", "1.0")}, {});