fixed it, was actually the open object handler not comparing to null explicitly so zero was considered no ID at all

ayanova/src/api/open-object-handler.js

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ export default {
     //expects extra data (tid) to be { type: [AYATYPE], id: [RECORDID] }
     //NOTE: for new objects all edit pages assume record ID 0 means create rather than open
 
-    if (tid.type && tid.id) {
+    if (tid.type && tid.id != null) {
       switch (tid.type) {
         case ayatype.Widget:
           vm.$router.push({