added a 'guest' login mode. added ability for mainView to be any doc, not just a docking collection.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/util/SharingManager.tsx b/src/client/util/SharingManager.tsx
index 793027ea1..895bd3374 100644
--- a/src/client/util/SharingManager.tsx
+++ b/src/client/util/SharingManager.tsx
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { GroupMemberView } from './GroupMemberView';
 import { SelectionManager } from './SelectionManager';
 import './SharingManager.scss';
 import { LinkManager } from './LinkManager';
+import { Id } from '../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 
 export interface User {
     email: string;
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ export class SharingManager extends React.Component<{}> {
      * Populates the list of validated users (this.users) by adding registered users which have a sharingDocument.
      */
     populateUsers = async () => {
-        if (!this.populating) {
+        if (!this.populating && Doc.UserDoc()[Id] !== '__guest__') {
             this.populating = true;
             const userList = await RequestPromise.get(Utils.prepend('/getUsers'));
             const raw = JSON.parse(userList) as User[];