Hi again,

Patch is attached. It's not applied yet as it doesn't include anything about user-configuration yet. @Matt Lundin, care to elaborate what you had in mind in terms of that?

With this patch a link before first headline is stored with the filename (no path) as description. Following the link does what you'd expect. Tests ran fine with the patch applied.

Regards
Gustav

> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
> > Sent: den 5 april 2020 00:13
> > To: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> > Cc: Gustav Wikström <gustav@whil.se>
> > Subject: [Bug] org-store-link should not insert a document level ID property
> >
> > The introduction of document-level property drawers (commit
> > 1bdff9f73dc1e7ff625a90e3e61350bdea99f29c from May 2019) introduced
> > inconsistencies in the behavior of org-id and org-store-link.
> >
> > If org-id-link-to-org-use-id is set to t or 'create-if-interactive,
> > calling org-store-link above the first headline in an org file will
> > insert a PROPERTY drawer and an ID at top of the file, so that the file
> > (call it "~/test.org") looks like this:
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > :PROPERTIES:
> > :ID:       1f43e860-9e7b-4c8f-82b9-6ed3352e589f
> > :END:
> >
> > * First headline
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > However, the link that Org actually stores is "[[file:~/test.org]]", so
> > the ID is irrelevant.
> >
> > In addition, a link to a document-level ID does not work. Following
> > "[[id:1f43e860-9e7b-4c8f-82b9-6ed3352e589f]]" results in this error:
> >
> > user-error: Before first headline at position 14 in buffer test.org
> >
> > So either:
> >
> > 1. org-id and org-store-link/org-open-link should support document level
> >    ids in a user-configurable way, or
> > 2. org-id-get-create should detect whether it is above the first heading
> >    and should not create an id
> >
> > Option #2 would obviously be the easier fix.
> >
> > Gustav: were IDs within the scope of your initial thinking about
> > document level properties? Or are these largely irrelevant?
> 
> Yes, they were in scope and ID should mean something also before first
> headline. I'll have a look to see what can be done. Thanks for finding this!
> 
> >
> > Best,
> > Matt