diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4e3bbf3fd..d8cd1b792 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 - TW-1549 task annotate hangs with specific text pattern (thanks to Alexandre
           de Verteuil).
 - TW-1550 _contexts helper-command (thanks to David Patrick).
+- TW-1551 Unable to get a UDA value from DOM (thanks to Tomas Babej).
 - Eliminated some code that is not UTF8-safe.
 - Removed pthreads linkage.
 - Implemented the context feature.
diff --git a/src/DOM.cpp b/src/DOM.cpp
index e3647e351..4b0dffdb9 100644
--- a/src/DOM.cpp
+++ b/src/DOM.cpp
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ bool DOM::get (const std::string& name, const Task& task, Variant& value)
           Column* column = context.columns[canonical];
           if (column)
           {
-            if (column->is_uda () && ! task.has (canonical))
+            if (column->is_uda () && ! ref.has (canonical))
             {
               value = Variant ("''");
               return true;