diff --git a/public/app/features/transformers/configFromQuery/configFromQuery.ts b/public/app/features/transformers/configFromQuery/configFromQuery.ts
index 5b3bc7cb2c6..0ac2fc25788 100644
--- a/public/app/features/transformers/configFromQuery/configFromQuery.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/transformers/configFromQuery/configFromQuery.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ export function extractConfigFromQuery(options: ConfigFromQueryTransformOptions,
     const outputFrame: DataFrame = {
       fields: [],
       length: frame.length,
+      refId: frame.refId,
     };
 
     for (const field of frame.fields) {
@@ -85,7 +86,6 @@ export function extractConfigFromQuery(options: ConfigFromQueryTransformOptions,
 
     output.push(outputFrame);
   }
-
   return output;
 }