diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/include/modelnode.h b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/include/modelnode.h
index f4022c8c92e..99f0840fa1d 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/include/modelnode.h
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/include/modelnode.h
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ public:
     void setIdWithRefactoring(const QString &id);
     void setIdWithoutRefactoring(const QString &id);
     static bool isValidId(const QString &id);
+    bool hasId() const;
 
     Model *model() const;
     AbstractView *view() const;
diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/internalnode.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/internalnode.cpp
index 1059e8b7760..f89809f138d 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/internalnode.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/internalnode.cpp
@@ -155,6 +155,11 @@ void InternalNode::setId(const QString& id)
     m_id = id;
 }
 
+bool InternalNode::hasId() const
+{
+    return !m_id.isEmpty();
+}
+
 
 uint qHash(const InternalNodePointer& node)
 {
diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/internalnode_p.h b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/internalnode_p.h
index b24757ff31a..879c3f15115 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/internalnode_p.h
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/internalnode_p.h
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ public:
 
     QString id() const;
     void setId(const QString& id);
+    bool hasId() const;
 
     QVariant auxiliaryData(const PropertyName &name) const;
     void setAuxiliaryData(const PropertyName &name, const QVariant &data);
diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/modelnode.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/modelnode.cpp
index 04c2bdd66cc..f916ef0dfc3 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/modelnode.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/designercore/model/modelnode.cpp
@@ -164,6 +164,14 @@ bool ModelNode::isValidId(const QString &id)
     return id.isEmpty() || (!idContainsWrongLetter(id) && !idIsQmlKeyWord(id));
 }
 
+bool ModelNode::hasId() const
+{
+    if (!isValid())
+        throw InvalidModelNodeException(__LINE__, __FUNCTION__, __FILE__);
+
+    return m_internalNode->hasId();
+}
+
 void ModelNode::setIdWithRefactoring(const QString& id)
 {
     if (model()->rewriterView()