clicking to open a shared dashboard opens an alias of it.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx b/src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx
index 6415601f1..35aa67ac8 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx
@@ -53,7 +53,14 @@ export class DashboardView extends React.Component {
     clickDashboard = async (e: React.MouseEvent, dashboard: Doc) => {
         if (e.detail === 2) {
             Doc.AddDocToList(Doc.MySharedDocs, 'viewed', dashboard);
-            Doc.ActiveDashboard = dashboard;
+            if (DocListCast(Doc.MySharedDocs.data).includes(dashboard)) {
+                // choose an appropriate alias or make one. --- choose the first alias that (1) user owns,  (2) has no context field ... otherwise make a new alias
+                const bestAlias = DocListCast(dashboard.aliases).find(doc => doc.author === Doc.CurrentUserEmail);
+                const nextBestAlias = DocListCast(dashboard.aliases).find(doc => doc.author === Doc.CurrentUserEmail);
+                Doc.ActiveDashboard = bestAlias ?? nextBestAlias ?? Doc.MakeAlias(dashboard);
+            } else {
+                Doc.ActiveDashboard = dashboard;
+            }
             Doc.ActivePage = 'dashboard';
         }
     };