in the most current version (3) of org-ref, the labels that are found are defined in org-ref-ref-label-regexps. At the moment there isn't a pattern for ID. No particular reason, I haven't used ID like that for many years. I added and pushed that to the current repo just now. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin (he/him/his) Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 11:55 AM Uwe Brauer wrote: > > Please look at this example > > * new > :PROPERTIES: > :ID: 43b3de77-4074-47f2-9a4a-9cddebb33951 > :END: > > ** Inverse problem > :PROPERTIES: > :CUSTOM_ID: sec:one > :END: > > > ** new title > :PROPERTIES: > :ID: f3c76e50-5be9-47f2-bad4-257166670481 > :END: > > Two ids were generated by org-id-get-create. I thought that could be > another solution to my problem. > > However, strangely enough org-ref-helm-insert-ref-link > does not find these two IDs it only finds CUSTOM_ID. > > @John: you are the author of that package, why doesn't the function find > the ID? > > Regards > > Uwe > > > > > > >