Index: console/frontend/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/console/editor/HstReferenceEditor.java
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
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--- console/frontend/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/console/editor/HstReferenceEditor.java	(revision 45538)
+++ console/frontend/src/main/java/org/hippoecm/frontend/plugins/console/editor/HstReferenceEditor.java	(revision )
@@ -102,7 +102,9 @@
         private void load() {
             linkText = null;
             linkModel = null;
-
+            if(StringUtils.isBlank(getModelObject())) {
+                return;
+            }
             try {
                 final Node targetNode = getHstReferencedNode();
                 linkModel = new JcrNodeModel(targetNode);