diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/templatemodels/individual/BaseIndividualTemplateModel.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/templatemodels/individual/BaseIndividualTemplateModel.java
index 99c9c3915..5da698329 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/templatemodels/individual/BaseIndividualTemplateModel.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/templatemodels/individual/BaseIndividualTemplateModel.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
@@ -16,13 +17,16 @@ import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.ifaces.RequestActio
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.propstmt.AddDataPropStmt;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.propstmt.AddObjectPropStmt;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.usepages.SeeIndividualEditingPanel;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.DataPropertyStatement;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.VClass;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.config.ConfigurationProperties;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroRequest;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.UrlBuilder;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.UrlBuilder.Route;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.ObjectPropertyStatementDao;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.VClassDao;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.WebappDaoFactory;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.reasoner.SimpleReasoner;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.templatemodels.BaseTemplateModel;
 
@@ -161,5 +165,20 @@ public abstract class BaseIndividualTemplateModel extends BaseTemplateModel {
     public String getLocalName() {
         return individual.getLocalName();
     }   
-    
+ 
+    public String getSelfEditingId() {
+        String id = null;
+        String idMatchingProperty = ConfigurationProperties.getBean(getServletContext()).getProperty("selfEditing.idMatchingProperty");
+        if (! StringUtils.isBlank(idMatchingProperty)) {
+            // Use assertions model to side-step filtering. We need to get the value regardless of whether the property
+            // is visible to the current user.
+            WebappDaoFactory wdf = vreq.getAssertionsWebappDaoFactory();
+            Collection<DataPropertyStatement> ids = 
+                wdf.getDataPropertyStatementDao().getDataPropertyStatementsForIndividualByDataPropertyURI(individual, idMatchingProperty);
+            if (ids.size() > 0) {
+                id = ids.iterator().next().getData();
+            }
+        }
+        return id;
+    }
 }