Merge branch 'master' into schema-mehek

66 files changed, 1355 insertions, 1174 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/documents/Documents.ts b/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
index 9b8b9c877..979b294e0 100644
--- a/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
+++ b/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ export class DocumentOptions {
     _chromeHidden?: boolean; // whether the editing chrome for a document is hidden
     _searchDoc?: boolean; // is this a search document (used to change UI for search results in schema view)
     _forceActive?: boolean; // flag to handle pointer events when not selected (or otherwise active)
+    enableDragWhenActive?: boolean; // allow dragging even if document contentts are active (e.g., tree, groups)
     _stayInCollection?: boolean; // whether the document should remain in its collection when someone tries to drag and drop it elsewhere
     _raiseWhenDragged?: boolean; // whether a document is brought to front when dragged.
     _hideContextMenu?: boolean; // whether the context menu can be shown
@@ -232,7 +233,6 @@ export class DocumentOptions {
     contextMenuIcons?: List<string>;
     defaultDoubleClick?: 'ignore' | 'default'; // ignore double clicks, or deafult (undefined) means open document full screen
     waitForDoubleClickToClick?: 'always' | 'never' | 'default'; // whether a click function wait for double click to expire.  'default' undefined = wait only if there's a click handler, "never" = never wait, "always" = alway wait
-    enableDragWhenActive?: boolean;
     dontUndo?: boolean; // whether button clicks should be undoable (this is set to true for Undo/Redo/and sidebar buttons that open the siebar panel)
     description?: string; // added for links
     layout?: string | Doc; // default layout string for a document
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ export class DocumentOptions {
     linearViewExpandable?: boolean; // can linear view be expanded
     linearViewToggleButton?: string; // button to open close linear view group
     linearViewSubMenu?: boolean;
+    linearBtnWidth?: number;
     flexGap?: number; // Linear view flex gap
     flexDirection?: 'unset' | 'row' | 'column' | 'row-reverse' | 'column-reverse';
 
@@ -470,7 +471,7 @@ export namespace Docs {
                 DocumentType.AUDIO,
                 {
                     layout: { view: AudioBox, dataField: defaultDataKey },
-                    options: { _height: 100, forceReflow: true, nativeDimModifiable: true },
+                    options: { _height: 100, fitWidth: true, forceReflow: true, nativeDimModifiable: true },
                 },
             ],
             [
@@ -934,13 +935,13 @@ export namespace Docs {
             return InstanceFromProto(Prototypes.get(DocumentType.RTF), field, options, undefined, fieldKey);
         }
 
-        export function LinkDocument(source: { doc: Doc; ctx?: Doc }, target: { doc: Doc; ctx?: Doc }, options: DocumentOptions = {}, id?: string) {
+        export function LinkDocument(source: Doc, target: Doc, options: DocumentOptions = {}, id?: string) {
             const linkDoc = InstanceFromProto(
                 Prototypes.get(DocumentType.LINK),
                 undefined,
                 {
-                    anchor1: source.doc,
-                    anchor2: target.doc,
+                    anchor1: source,
+                    anchor2: target,
                     ...options,
                 },
                 id
@@ -1147,8 +1148,8 @@ export namespace Docs {
             return Prototypes.get(DocumentType.PRESELEMENT);
         }
 
-        export function DataVizDocument(url: string, options?: DocumentOptions) {
-            return InstanceFromProto(Prototypes.get(DocumentType.DATAVIZ), new CsvField(url), { title: 'Data Viz', ...options });
+        export function DataVizDocument(url: string, options?: DocumentOptions, overwriteDoc?: Doc) {
+            return InstanceFromProto(Prototypes.get(DocumentType.DATAVIZ), new CsvField(url), { title: 'Data Viz', ...options }, undefined, undefined, undefined, overwriteDoc);
         }
 
         export function DockDocument(documents: Array<Doc>, config: string, options: DocumentOptions, id?: string) {
@@ -1294,16 +1295,14 @@ export namespace DocUtils {
         broadcastEvent && runInAction(() => (DocumentManager.Instance.RecordingEvent = DocumentManager.Instance.RecordingEvent + 1));
         return DocUtils.ActiveRecordings.map(audio => {
             const sourceDoc = getSourceDoc();
-            const link = sourceDoc && DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: sourceDoc }, { doc: audio.getAnchor(true) || audio.props.Document }, 'recording annotation:linked recording', 'recording timeline');
-            link && (link.followLinkLocation = OpenWhere.addRight);
-            return link;
+            return sourceDoc && DocUtils.MakeLink(sourceDoc, audio.getAnchor(true) || audio.props.Document, { linkDisplay: false, linkRelationship: 'recording annotation:linked recording', description: 'recording timeline' });
         });
     }
 
-    export function MakeLink(source: { doc: Doc }, target: { doc: Doc }, linkRelationship: string = '', description: string = '', id?: string, allowParCollectionLink?: boolean, showPopup?: number[]) {
-        if (!linkRelationship) linkRelationship = target.doc.type === DocumentType.RTF ? 'Commentary:Comments On' : 'link';
-        const sv = DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(source.doc);
-        if (!allowParCollectionLink && sv?.props.ContainingCollectionDoc === target.doc) return;
+    export function MakeLink(source: Doc, target: Doc, linkSettings: { linkRelationship?: string; description?: string; linkDisplay?: boolean }, id?: string, allowParCollectionLink?: boolean, showPopup?: number[]) {
+        if (!linkSettings.linkRelationship) linkSettings.linkRelationship = target.type === DocumentType.RTF ? 'Commentary:Comments On' : 'link';
+        const sv = DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(source);
+        if (!allowParCollectionLink && sv?.props.ContainingCollectionDoc === target) return;
         if (target.doc === Doc.UserDoc()) return undefined;
 
         const makeLink = action((linkDoc: Doc, showPopup?: number[]) => {
@@ -1343,16 +1342,16 @@ export namespace DocUtils {
                 target,
                 {
                     title: ComputedField.MakeFunction('generateLinkTitle(self)') as any,
-                    'anchor1-useLinkSmallAnchor': source.doc.useLinkSmallAnchor ? true : undefined,
-                    'anchor2-useLinkSmallAnchor': target.doc.useLinkSmallAnchor ? true : undefined,
+                    'anchor1-useLinkSmallAnchor': source.useLinkSmallAnchor ? true : undefined,
+                    'anchor2-useLinkSmallAnchor': target.useLinkSmallAnchor ? true : undefined,
                     'acl-Public': SharingPermissions.Augment,
                     '_acl-Public': SharingPermissions.Augment,
-                    linkDisplay: true,
+                    linkDisplay: linkSettings.linkDisplay,
                     _linkAutoMove: true,
-                    linkRelationship,
+                    linkRelationship: linkSettings.linkRelationship,
                     _showCaption: 'description',
                     _showTitle: 'linkRelationship',
-                    description,
+                    description: linkSettings.description,
                 },
                 id
             ),
@@ -1420,41 +1419,39 @@ export namespace DocUtils {
 
     export function DocumentFromField(target: Doc, fieldKey: string, proto?: Doc, options?: DocumentOptions): Doc | undefined {
         let created: Doc | undefined;
-        let layout: ((fieldKey: string) => string) | undefined;
         const field = target[fieldKey];
-        const resolved = options || {};
+        const resolved = options ?? {};
         if (field instanceof ImageField) {
             created = Docs.Create.ImageDocument(field.url.href, resolved);
-            layout = ImageBox.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = ImageBox.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         } else if (field instanceof Doc) {
             created = field;
         } else if (field instanceof VideoField) {
             created = Docs.Create.VideoDocument(field.url.href, resolved);
-            layout = VideoBox.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = VideoBox.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         } else if (field instanceof PdfField) {
             created = Docs.Create.PdfDocument(field.url.href, resolved);
-            layout = PDFBox.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = PDFBox.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         } else if (field instanceof AudioField) {
             created = Docs.Create.AudioDocument(field.url.href, resolved);
-            layout = AudioBox.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = AudioBox.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         } else if (field instanceof RecordingField) {
             created = Docs.Create.RecordingDocument(field.url.href, resolved);
-            layout = RecordingBox.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = RecordingBox.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         } else if (field instanceof InkField) {
             created = Docs.Create.InkDocument(ActiveInkColor(), Doc.ActiveTool, ActiveInkWidth(), ActiveInkBezierApprox(), ActiveFillColor(), ActiveArrowStart(), ActiveArrowEnd(), ActiveDash(), field.inkData, ActiveIsInkMask(), resolved);
-            layout = InkingStroke.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = InkingStroke.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         } else if (field instanceof List && field[0] instanceof Doc) {
             created = Docs.Create.StackingDocument(DocListCast(field), resolved);
-            layout = CollectionView.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = CollectionView.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         } else if (field instanceof MapField) {
             created = Docs.Create.MapDocument(DocListCast(field), resolved);
-            layout = MapBox.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = MapBox.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         } else {
             created = Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { ...{ _width: 200, _height: 25, _autoHeight: true }, ...resolved });
-            layout = FormattedTextBox.LayoutString;
+            created.layout = FormattedTextBox.LayoutString(fieldKey);
         }
         if (created) {
-            created.layout = layout?.(fieldKey);
             created.title = fieldKey;
             proto && created.proto && (created.proto = Doc.GetProto(proto));
         }
@@ -1550,7 +1547,7 @@ export namespace DocUtils {
         const documentList: ContextMenuProps[] = DocListCast(DocListCast(Doc.MyTools?.data)[0]?.data)
             .filter(btnDoc => !btnDoc.hidden)
             .map(btnDoc => Cast(btnDoc?.dragFactory, Doc, null))
-            .filter(doc => doc && doc !== Doc.UserDoc().emptyTrail)
+            .filter(doc => doc && doc !== Doc.UserDoc().emptyTrail && doc !== Doc.UserDoc().emptyDataViz)
             .map((dragDoc, i) => ({
                 description: ':' + StrCast(dragDoc.title).replace('Untitled ', ''),
                 event: undoBatch((args: { x: number; y: number }) => {
@@ -1702,7 +1699,7 @@ export namespace DocUtils {
                 _timecodeToShow: Cast(doc._timecodeToShow, 'number', null),
             });
             Doc.AddDocToList(context, annotationField, pushpin);
-            const pushpinLink = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: pushpin }, { doc: doc }, 'pushpin', '');
+            const pushpinLink = DocUtils.MakeLink(pushpin, doc, { linkRelationship: 'pushpin' }, '');
             doc._timecodeToShow = undefined;
             return pushpin;
         }
diff --git a/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts b/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
index 753cd1cb7..623aaf357 100644
--- a/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ interface Button {
     numBtnMax?: number;
     switchToggle?: boolean;
     width?: number;
+    linearBtnWidth?: number;
     toolType?: string; // type of pen tool
     expertMode?: boolean;// available only in expert mode
     btnList?: List<string>;
@@ -272,7 +273,7 @@ export class CurrentUserUtils {
             {key: "WebCam",     creator: opts => Docs.Create.WebCamDocument("", opts),      opts: { _width: 400, _height: 200, recording:true, system: true, cloneFieldFilter: new List<string>(["system"]) }},
             {key: "Button",     creator: Docs.Create.ButtonDocument,                        opts: { _width: 150, _height: 50, _xPadding: 10, _yPadding: 10, _isLinkButton: true }},
             {key: "Script",     creator: opts => Docs.Create.ScriptingDocument(null, opts), opts: { _width: 200, _height: 250, }},
-            // {key: "DataViz",    creator: opts => Docs.Create.DataVizDocument(opts),         opts: { _width: 300, _height: 300 }},
+            {key: "DataViz",    creator: opts => Docs.Create.DataVizDocument("/users/rz/Downloads/addresses.csv", opts),   opts: { _width: 300, _height: 300 }},
             {key: "Header",     creator: headerTemplate,                                    opts: { _width: 300, _height: 70, _headerPointerEvents: "all", _headerHeight: 12, _headerFontSize: 9, _autoHeight: true, treeViewHideUnrendered: true}},
             {key: "Trail",      creator: Docs.Create.PresDocument,                          opts: { _width: 400, _height: 30, _viewType: CollectionViewType.Stacking, targetDropAction: "alias" as any, treeViewHideTitle: true, _fitWidth:true, _chromeHidden: true, boxShadow: "0 0" }},
             {key: "Tab",        creator: opts => Docs.Create.FreeformDocument([], opts),    opts: { _width: 500, _height: 800, _fitWidth: true, _backgroundGridShow: true, }},
@@ -621,6 +622,7 @@ export class CurrentUserUtils {
             { title: "Snap\xA0Lines",icon: "th",          toolTip: "Show Snap Lines",     btnType: ButtonType.ToggleButton, expertMode: false, toolType:"snap lines", funcs: {}, scripts: { onClick: 'showFreeform(self.toolType, _readOnly_)'}}, // Only when floating document is selected in freeform
             { title: "View\xA0All",  icon: "object-group",toolTip: "Fit all Docs to View",btnType: ButtonType.ToggleButton, expertMode: false, toolType:"viewAll",    funcs: {}, scripts: { onClick: 'showFreeform(self.toolType, _readOnly_)'}}, // Only when floating document is selected in freeform
             { title: "Clusters",     icon: "braille",     toolTip: "Show Doc Clusters",   btnType: ButtonType.ToggleButton, expertMode: false, toolType:"clusters",   funcs: {}, scripts: { onClick: 'showFreeform(self.toolType, _readOnly_)'}}, // Only when floating document is selected in freeform
+            { title: "Arrange",      icon: "window",      toolTip: "Toggle Auto Arrange", btnType: ButtonType.ToggleButton, expertMode: false, toolType:"arrange",    funcs: {}, scripts: { onClick: 'showFreeform(self.toolType, _readOnly_)'}}, // Only when floating document is selected in freeform
             { title: "Reset",        icon: "check",       toolTip: "Reset View",          btnType: ButtonType.ClickButton,  expertMode: false, backgroundColor:"transparent",    scripts: { onClick: 'resetView()'}}, // Only when floating document is selected in freeform
         ]
     }
@@ -682,9 +684,9 @@ export class CurrentUserUtils {
                     CollectionViewType.Carousel3D, CollectionViewType.Linear, CollectionViewType.Map,
                     CollectionViewType.Grid, CollectionViewType.NoteTaking]),
               title: "Perspective",                    toolTip: "View",                 btnType: ButtonType.DropdownList,                                                                                                                                    ignoreClick: true, width: 100, scripts: { script: 'setView(value, _readOnly_)'}},
-            { title: "Pin",     icon: "map-pin",       toolTip: "Pin View to Trail",    btnType: ButtonType.ClickButton,         expertMode: false, toolType:"tab",                       funcs: {hidden: `!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`}, width: 20,  scripts: { onClick: 'pinWithView(_readOnly_, altKey)'}},
-            { title: "Fill",    icon: "fill-drip",     toolTip: "Background Fill Color",btnType: ButtonType.ColorButton,         expertMode: false, toolType:"tab",                                                                                          ignoreClick: true, width: 20,  scripts: { script:  'return setBackgroundColor(value, _readOnly_)'}}, // Only when a document is selected
-            { title: "Header",  icon: "heading",       toolTip: "Header Color",         btnType: ButtonType.ColorButton,         expertMode: false, toolType:"tab",                                                                                          ignoreClick: true,             scripts: { script:  'return setHeaderColor(value, _readOnly_)'}},
+            { title: "Pin",     icon: "map-pin",       toolTip: "Pin View to Trail",    btnType: ButtonType.ClickButton,         expertMode: false,                                                                                                                             width: 20,  scripts: { onClick: 'pinWithView(altKey)'}},
+            { title: "Fill",    icon: "fill-drip",     toolTip: "Background Fill Color",btnType: ButtonType.ColorButton,         expertMode: false,                                                                                                          ignoreClick: true, width: 20,  scripts: { script:  'return setBackgroundColor(value, _readOnly_)'}}, // Only when a document is selected
+            { title: "Header",  icon: "heading",       toolTip: "Header Color",         btnType: ButtonType.ColorButton,         expertMode: false,                                                                                                          ignoreClick: true,             scripts: { script:  'return setHeaderColor(value, _readOnly_)'}},
             { title: "Overlay", icon: "layer-group",   toolTip: "Overlay",              btnType: ButtonType.ToggleButton,        expertMode: false, toolType:CollectionViewType.Freeform, funcs: {hidden: '!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode, true)'},       scripts: { onClick: 'toggleOverlay(_readOnly_)'}}, // Only when floating document is selected in freeform
             { title: "Z order", icon: "z",             toolTip: "Bring Forward on Drag",btnType: ButtonType.ToggleButton,        expertMode: false, toolType:CollectionViewType.Freeform, funcs: {},                                                                                        scripts: { onClick: 'toggleRaiseOnDrag(_readOnly_)'}}, // Only when floating document is selected in freeform
             { title: "Back",    icon: "chevron-left",  toolTip: "Prev Animation Frame", btnType: ButtonType.ClickButton,         expertMode: true,  toolType:CollectionViewType.Freeform, funcs: {hidden: '!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)'}, width: 20,  scripts: { onClick: 'prevKeyFrame(_readOnly_)'}},
@@ -693,9 +695,9 @@ export class CurrentUserUtils {
             { title: "Text",    icon: "Text",          toolTip: "Text functions",       subMenu: CurrentUserUtils.textTools(),   expertMode: false, toolType:DocumentType.RTF,            funcs: {                                                                             linearViewIsExpanded: `SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`} }, // Always available
             { title: "Ink",     icon: "Ink",           toolTip: "Ink functions",        subMenu: CurrentUserUtils.inkTools(),    expertMode: false, toolType:DocumentType.INK,            funcs: {                                                                             linearViewIsExpanded: `SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`}, scripts: { onClick: 'setInkToolDefaults()'} }, // Always available
             { title: "Doc",     icon: "Doc",           toolTip: "Freeform Doc tools",   subMenu: CurrentUserUtils.freeTools(),   expertMode: false, toolType:CollectionViewType.Freeform, funcs: {hidden: `!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode, true)`, linearViewIsExpanded: `SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`} }, // Always available
-            { title: "View",    icon: "View",          toolTip: "View tools",           subMenu: CurrentUserUtils.viewTools(),expertMode: false, toolType:CollectionViewType.Freeform, funcs: {hidden: `!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`, linearViewIsExpanded: `SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`} }, // Always available
+            { title: "View",    icon: "View",          toolTip: "View tools",           subMenu: CurrentUserUtils.viewTools(),   expertMode: false, toolType:CollectionViewType.Freeform, funcs: {hidden: `!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`, linearViewIsExpanded: `SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`} }, // Always available
             { title: "Web",     icon: "Web",           toolTip: "Web functions",        subMenu: CurrentUserUtils.webTools(),    expertMode: false, toolType:DocumentType.WEB,            funcs: {hidden: `!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`, linearViewIsExpanded: `SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`} }, // Only when Web is selected
-            { title: "Schema",  icon: "Schema",        toolTip: "Schema functions",     subMenu: CurrentUserUtils.schemaTools(), expertMode: false, toolType:CollectionViewType.Schema,   funcs: {hidden: `!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`, linearViewIsExpanded: `SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`} } // Only when Schema is selected
+            { title: "Schema",  icon: "Schema",linearBtnWidth:58,toolTip: "Schema functions",    subMenu: CurrentUserUtils.schemaTools(), expertMode: false, toolType:CollectionViewType.Schema,   funcs: {hidden: `!SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`, linearViewIsExpanded: `SelectionManager_selectedDocType(self.toolType, self.expertMode)`} } // Only when Schema is selected
         ];
     }
 
@@ -706,7 +708,7 @@ export class CurrentUserUtils {
             backgroundColor: params.backgroundColor ??"transparent", ///  a bit hacky. if an onClick is specified, then assume a toggle uses onClick to get the backgroundColor (see below).  Otherwise, assume a transparent background
             color: Colors.WHITE, system: true, dontUndo: true, 
             _nativeWidth: params.width ?? 30, _width: params.width ?? 30,
-            _height: 30, _nativeHeight: 30, 
+            _height: 30, _nativeHeight: 30, linearBtnWidth: params.linearBtnWidth,
             toolType: params.toolType, expertMode: params.expertMode,
             _stayInCollection: true, _hideContextMenu: true, _lockedPosition: true,
             _removeDropProperties: new List<string>([ "_stayInCollection"]),
diff --git a/src/client/util/DragManager.ts b/src/client/util/DragManager.ts
index cc116fb46..7d2aa813f 100644
--- a/src/client/util/DragManager.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/DragManager.ts
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ export namespace DragManager {
             this.dropDocCreator = dropDocCreator;
             this.offset = [0, 0];
         }
-        linkSourceDoc?: Doc;
         dropDocCreator: (annotationOn: Doc | undefined) => Doc;
         dropDocument?: Doc;
         offset: number[];
diff --git a/src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts b/src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts
index 785018990..df61ecece 100644
--- a/src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ import { DocumentManager } from './DocumentManager';
 import { LinkManager } from './LinkManager';
 import { SelectionManager } from './SelectionManager';
 import { UndoManager } from './UndoManager';
-
-type CreateViewFunc = (doc: Doc, followLinkLocation: string, finished?: () => void) => void;
 /*
  * link doc:
  * - anchor1: doc
diff --git a/src/client/views/ContextMenu.tsx b/src/client/views/ContextMenu.tsx
index 6a530e3ae..e4c3e864b 100644
--- a/src/client/views/ContextMenu.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/ContextMenu.tsx
@@ -102,13 +102,11 @@ export class ContextMenu extends React.Component {
         }
     }
     @action
-    moveAfter(item: ContextMenuProps, after: ContextMenuProps) {
-        if (after && this.findByDescription(after.description)) {
-            const curInd = this._items.findIndex(i => i.description === item.description);
-            this._items.splice(curInd, 1);
-            const afterInd = this._items.findIndex(i => i.description === after.description);
-            this._items.splice(afterInd + 1, 0, item);
-        }
+    moveAfter(item: ContextMenuProps, after?: ContextMenuProps) {
+        const curInd = this._items.findIndex(i => i.description === item.description);
+        this._items.splice(curInd, 1);
+        const afterInd = after && this.findByDescription(after.description) ? this._items.findIndex(i => i.description === after.description) : this._items.length;
+        this._items.splice(afterInd, 0, item);
     }
     @action
     setDefaultItem(prefix: string, item: (name: string) => void) {
diff --git a/src/client/views/DocumentButtonBar.tsx b/src/client/views/DocumentButtonBar.tsx
index 9389fed01..e83ea00cf 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DocumentButtonBar.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DocumentButtonBar.tsx
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
     @observable subEndLink = '';
     @computed
     get endLinkButton() {
-        const linkBtn = (pinDocLayout: boolean, pinDocContent: boolean, icon: IconProp) => {
+        const linkBtn = (pinLayout: boolean, pinContent: boolean, icon: IconProp) => {
             const tooltip = `Finish Link and Save ${this.subEndLink} data`;
             return !this.view0 ? null : (
                 <Tooltip title={<div className="dash-tooltip">{tooltip}</div>}>
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
                             key={icon.toString()}
                             size="sm"
                             icon={icon}
-                            onPointerEnter={action(e => (this.subEndLink = (pinDocLayout ? 'Layout' : '') + (pinDocLayout && pinDocContent ? ' &' : '') + (pinDocContent ? ' Content' : '')))}
+                            onPointerEnter={action(e => (this.subEndLink = (pinLayout ? 'Layout' : '') + (pinLayout && pinContent ? ' &' : '') + (pinContent ? ' Content' : '')))}
                             onPointerLeave={action(e => (this.subEndLink = ''))}
                             onClick={e => {
                                 const docs = this.props
@@ -309,9 +309,8 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
                                     .map(dv => dv!.rootDoc);
                                 this.view0 &&
                                     DocumentLinksButton.finishLinkClick(e.clientX, e.clientY, DocumentLinksButton.StartLink, this.view0.props.Document, true, this.view0, {
-                                        pinDocLayout,
-                                        pinDocContent,
-                                        pinData: !pinDocContent ? {} : { poslayoutview: true, dataannos: true, dataview: true },
+                                        pinDocLayout: pinLayout,
+                                        pinData: !pinContent ? {} : { poslayoutview: true, dataannos: true, dataview: pinContent },
                                     } as PinProps);
 
                                 e.stopPropagation();
@@ -337,7 +336,7 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
     @computed
     get pinButton() {
         const targetDoc = this.view0?.props.Document;
-        const pinBtn = (pinDocLayout: boolean, pinDocContent: boolean, icon: IconProp) => {
+        const pinBtn = (pinLayoutView: boolean, pinContentView: boolean, icon: IconProp) => {
             const tooltip = `Pin Document and Save ${this.subPin} to trail`;
             return !tooltip ? null : (
                 <Tooltip title={<div className="dash-tooltip">{tooltip}</div>}>
@@ -351,10 +350,10 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
                             onPointerEnter={action(
                                 e =>
                                     (this.subPin =
-                                        (pinDocLayout ? 'Layout' : '') +
-                                        (pinDocLayout && pinDocContent ? ' &' : '') +
-                                        (pinDocContent ? ' Content View' : '') +
-                                        (pinDocLayout && pinDocContent ? '(shift+alt)' : pinDocLayout ? '(shift)' : pinDocContent ? '(alt)' : ''))
+                                        (pinLayoutView ? 'Layout' : '') +
+                                        (pinLayoutView && pinContentView ? ' &' : '') +
+                                        (pinContentView ? ' Content View' : '') +
+                                        (pinLayoutView && pinContentView ? '(shift+alt)' : pinLayoutView ? '(shift)' : pinContentView ? '(alt)' : ''))
                             )}
                             onPointerLeave={action(e => (this.subPin = ''))}
                             onClick={e => {
@@ -364,8 +363,8 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
                                     .map(dv => dv!.rootDoc);
                                 TabDocView.PinDoc(docs, {
                                     pinAudioPlay: true,
-                                    pinDocLayout,
-                                    pinData: { dataview: true },
+                                    pinDocLayout: pinLayoutView,
+                                    pinData: { dataview: pinContentView },
                                     activeFrame: Cast(docs.lastElement()?.activeFrame, 'number', null),
                                     currentFrame: Cast(docs.lastElement()?.currentFrame, 'number', null),
                                 });
@@ -385,7 +384,7 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
                             .views()
                             .filter(v => v)
                             .map(dv => dv!.rootDoc);
-                        TabDocView.PinDoc(docs, { pinAudioPlay: true, pinDocLayout: e.shiftKey, pinDocContent: e.altKey, activeFrame: Cast(docs.lastElement()?.activeFrame, 'number', null) });
+                        TabDocView.PinDoc(docs, { pinAudioPlay: true, pinDocLayout: e.shiftKey, pinData: {dataview: e.altKey}, activeFrame: Cast(docs.lastElement()?.activeFrame, 'number', null) });
                         e.stopPropagation();
                     }}>
                     <div className="documentButtonBar-pinTypes">
@@ -416,7 +415,7 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
         const targetDoc = this.view0?.props.Document;
         return !targetDoc ? null : (
             <Tooltip title={<div className="dash-tooltip">{`Open Context Menu`}</div>}>
-                <div className="documentButtonBar-icon" style={{ color: 'white', cursor: 'pointer' }} onClick={e => this.openContextMenu(e)}>
+                <div className="documentButtonBar-icon" style={{ color: 'white', cursor: 'pointer' }} onClick={this.openContextMenu}>
                     <FontAwesomeIcon className="documentdecorations-icon" icon="bars" />
                 </div>
             </Tooltip>
@@ -569,7 +568,7 @@ export class DocumentButtonBar extends React.Component<{ views: () => (DocumentV
             const anchor = rootView.ComponentView?.getAnchor?.(false) ?? rootDoc;
             const trail = DocCast(anchor.presTrail) ?? Doc.MakeCopy(DocCast(Doc.UserDoc().emptyTrail), true);
             if (trail !== anchor.presTrail) {
-                DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: anchor }, { doc: trail }, 'link trail');
+                DocUtils.MakeLink(anchor, trail, { linkRelationship: 'link trail' });
                 anchor.presTrail = trail;
             }
             Doc.ActivePresentation = trail;
diff --git a/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx b/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
index 985e6f88f..9bc583ce5 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import { DocumentView, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { ImageBox } from './nodes/ImageBox';
 import React = require('react');
+import { RichTextField } from '../../fields/RichTextField';
 
 @observer
 export class DocumentDecorations extends React.Component<{ PanelWidth: number; PanelHeight: number; boundsLeft: number; boundsTop: number }, { value: string }> {
@@ -127,19 +128,23 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends React.Component<{ PanelWidth: number; P
                         }
                         //@ts-ignore
                         const titleField = +this._accumulatedTitle == this._accumulatedTitle ? +this._accumulatedTitle : this._accumulatedTitle;
-                        Doc.SetInPlace(d.rootDoc, titleFieldKey, titleField, true);
 
-                        if (d.rootDoc.syncLayoutFieldWithTitle) {
-                            const title = titleField.toString();
+                        if (titleField.toString().startsWith('<this>')) {
+                            const title = titleField.toString().replace(/<this>\.?/, '');
                             const curKey = Doc.LayoutFieldKey(d.rootDoc);
-                            if (curKey !== title && d.dataDoc[title] === undefined) {
-                                d.rootDoc.layout = FormattedTextBox.LayoutString(title);
-                                setTimeout(() => {
-                                    const val = d.dataDoc[curKey];
-                                    d.dataDoc[curKey] = undefined;
-                                    d.dataDoc[title] = val;
-                                });
+                            if (curKey !== title) {
+                                if (title) {
+                                    if (d.dataDoc[title] === undefined || d.dataDoc[title] instanceof RichTextField || typeof d.dataDoc[title] === 'string') {
+                                        d.rootDoc.layoutKey = `layout_${title}`;
+                                        d.rootDoc[`layout_${title}`] = FormattedTextBox.LayoutString(title);
+                                        d.rootDoc[`${title}-nativeWidth`] = d.rootDoc[`${title}-nativeHeight`] = 0;
+                                    }
+                                } else {
+                                    d.rootDoc.layoutKey = undefined;
+                                }
                             }
+                        } else {
+                            Doc.SetInPlace(d.rootDoc, titleFieldKey, titleField, true);
                         }
                     }),
                 'title blur'
@@ -453,17 +458,6 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends React.Component<{ PanelWidth: number; P
 
     @action
     onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent): void => {
-        const views = SelectionManager.Views().map(dv => dv.rootDoc);
-        this._inkDragDocs = views
-            .filter(doc => doc.type === DocumentType.INK)
-            .map(doc => {
-                if (InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock) {
-                    Doc.SetNativeHeight(doc, NumCast(doc._height));
-                    Doc.SetNativeWidth(doc, NumCast(doc._width));
-                }
-                return { doc, x: NumCast(doc.x), y: NumCast(doc.y), width: NumCast(doc._width), height: NumCast(doc._height) };
-            });
-
         setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, this.onPointerMove, this.onPointerUp, emptyFunction);
         this.Interacting = true; // turns off pointer events on things like youtube videos and web pages so that dragging doesn't get "stuck" when cursor moves over them
         this._resizeHdlId = e.currentTarget.className;
@@ -487,10 +481,6 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends React.Component<{ PanelWidth: number; P
         if (!first) return false;
         let thisPt = { x: e.clientX - this._offX, y: e.clientY - this._offY };
         var fixedAspect = Doc.NativeAspect(first.layoutDoc);
-        InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock &&
-            SelectionManager.Views()
-                .filter(dv => dv.rootDoc.type === DocumentType.INK)
-                .forEach(dv => (fixedAspect = Doc.NativeAspect(dv.rootDoc)));
 
         const resizeHdl = this._resizeHdlId.split(' ')[0];
         if (fixedAspect && (resizeHdl === 'documentDecorations-bottomRightResizer' || resizeHdl === 'documentDecorations-topLeftResizer')) {
diff --git a/src/client/views/EditableView.tsx b/src/client/views/EditableView.tsx
index bb190e93b..164b6c57a 100644
--- a/src/client/views/EditableView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/EditableView.tsx
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ export class EditableView extends React.Component<EditableProps> {
                 this._editing = true;
                 this.props.isEditingCallback?.(true);
             }
-            e.stopPropagation();
+            // e.stopPropagation();
         }
     };
 
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ export class EditableView extends React.Component<EditableProps> {
                 className={`editableView-container-editing${this.props.oneLine ? '-oneLine' : ''}`}
                 ref={this._ref}
                 style={{ display: this.props.display, textOverflow: this.props.overflow, minHeight: '10px', whiteSpace: 'nowrap', height: this.props.height || 'auto', maxHeight: this.props.maxHeight }}
-                onPointerDown={e => e.stopPropagation()}
+                //onPointerDown={this.stopPropagation}
                 onClick={this.onClick}
                 placeholder={this.props.placeholder}>
                 <span style={{ fontStyle: this.props.fontStyle, fontSize: this.props.fontSize }}>{this.props.contents ? this.props.contents?.valueOf() : this.props.placeholder?.valueOf()}</span>
diff --git a/src/client/views/InkStrokeProperties.ts b/src/client/views/InkStrokeProperties.ts
index 1d8d52425..e6df0801c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/InkStrokeProperties.ts
+++ b/src/client/views/InkStrokeProperties.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ export class InkStrokeProperties {
         return this._Instance || new InkStrokeProperties();
     }
 
-    @observable _lock = false;
     @observable _controlButton = false;
     @observable _currentPoint = -1;
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx b/src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx
index e3642fdaf..2fd6cc4d6 100644
--- a/src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ import { action, IReactionDisposer, observable, reaction } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import { Doc, HeightSym, WidthSym } from '../../fields/Doc';
 import { InkData, InkField } from '../../fields/InkField';
-import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, NumCast, RTFCast, StrCast } from '../../fields/Types';
+import { BoolCast, Cast, NumCast, RTFCast, StrCast } from '../../fields/Types';
 import { TraceMobx } from '../../fields/util';
-import { DashColor, OmitKeys, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../Utils';
+import { DashColor, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../Utils';
 import { CognitiveServices } from '../cognitive_services/CognitiveServices';
+import { Docs } from '../documents/Documents';
 import { InteractionUtils } from '../util/InteractionUtils';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../util/SnappingManager';
 import { Transform } from '../util/Transform';
@@ -41,13 +42,12 @@ import { InkControlPtHandles, InkEndPtHandles } from './InkControlPtHandles';
 import './InkStroke.scss';
 import { InkStrokeProperties } from './InkStrokeProperties';
 import { InkTangentHandles } from './InkTangentHandles';
-import { DocComponentView, DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from './nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocComponentView } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './nodes/FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
+import { PinProps, PresBox } from './nodes/trails';
 import { StyleProp } from './StyleProvider';
 import Color = require('color');
-import { Docs } from '../documents/Documents';
-import { PinProps, PresBox } from './nodes/trails';
 
 @observer
 export class InkingStroke extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
@@ -464,7 +464,8 @@ export class InkingStroke extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
                             //top: (this.props.PanelHeight() - (lineHeightGuess * fsize + 20) * (this.props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1)) / 2,
                         }}>
                         <FormattedTextBox
-                            {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['children']).omit}
+                            {...this.props}
+                            setHeight={undefined}
                             setContentView={this.setSubContentView} // this makes the inkingStroke the "dominant" component - ie, it will show the inking UI when selected (not text)
                             yPadding={10}
                             xPadding={10}
diff --git a/src/client/views/MainView.tsx b/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
index f5adc17d0..b0888df68 100644
--- a/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ export class MainView extends React.Component {
                 fa.faConciergeBell,
                 fa.faWindowRestore,
                 fa.faFolder,
+                fa.faFolderOpen,
                 fa.faMapPin,
                 fa.faMapMarker,
                 fa.faFingerprint,
@@ -269,6 +270,7 @@ export class MainView extends React.Component {
                 fa.faLaptopCode,
                 fa.faMale,
                 fa.faCopy,
+                fa.faHome,
                 fa.faHandPointLeft,
                 fa.faHandPointRight,
                 fa.faCompass,
diff --git a/src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx b/src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx
index f3a5a5393..fbc7d7696 100644
--- a/src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
 
     @observable inOptions: boolean = false;
     @observable _controlButton: boolean = false;
-    @observable _lock: boolean = false;
 
     componentDidMount() {
         this.selectedDocListenerDisposer?.();
@@ -586,16 +585,6 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
                         <FontAwesomeIcon icon="bezier-curve" color="white" size="lg" />
                     </div>
                 </Tooltip>
-                <Tooltip title={<div className="dash-tooltip">{InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock ? 'Unlock ratio' : 'Lock ratio'}</div>}>
-                    <div className="inking-button-lock" onPointerDown={action(() => (InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock = !InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock))}>
-                        <FontAwesomeIcon icon={InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock ? 'lock' : 'unlock'} color="white" size="lg" />
-                    </div>
-                </Tooltip>
-                <Tooltip title={<div className="dash-tooltip">{'Rotate 90˚'}</div>}>
-                    <div className="inking-button-rotate" onPointerDown={action(() => this.rotate(Math.PI / 2))}>
-                        <FontAwesomeIcon icon="undo" color="white" size="lg" />
-                    </div>
-                </Tooltip>
             </div>
         );
     }
@@ -644,9 +633,6 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
     @action
     upDownButtons = (dirs: string, field: string) => {
         switch (field) {
-            case 'rot':
-                this.rotate(dirs === 'up' ? 0.1 : -0.1);
-                break;
             case 'Xps':
                 this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc.x = NumCast(this.selectedDoc?.x) + (dirs === 'up' ? 10 : -10));
                 break;
@@ -662,7 +648,6 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
                 const oldX = NumCast(this.selectedDoc?.x);
                 const oldY = NumCast(this.selectedDoc?.y);
                 this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc._width = oldWidth + (dirs === 'up' ? 10 : -10));
-                InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock && this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc._height = (NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._width) / oldWidth) * NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._height));
                 const doc = this.selectedDoc;
                 if (doc?.type === DocumentType.INK && doc.x && doc.y && doc._height && doc._width) {
                     const ink = Cast(doc.data, InkField)?.inkData;
@@ -684,7 +669,6 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
                 const oX = NumCast(this.selectedDoc?.x);
                 const oY = NumCast(this.selectedDoc?.y);
                 this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc._height = oHeight + (dirs === 'up' ? 10 : -10));
-                InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock && this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc._width = (NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._height) / oHeight) * NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._width));
                 const docu = this.selectedDoc;
                 if (docu?.type === DocumentType.INK && docu.x && docu.y && docu._height && docu._width) {
                     const ink = Cast(docu.data, InkField)?.inkData;
@@ -704,11 +688,7 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
     };
 
     getField(key: string) {
-        //if (this.selectedDoc) {
         return Field.toString(this.selectedDoc?.[key] as Field);
-        // } else {
-        //     return undefined as Opt<string>;
-        // }
     }
 
     @computed get shapeXps() {
@@ -717,9 +697,6 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
     @computed get shapeYps() {
         return this.getField('y');
     }
-    @computed get shapeRot() {
-        return this.getField('rotation');
-    }
     @computed get shapeHgt() {
         return this.getField('_height');
     }
@@ -732,18 +709,11 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
     set shapeYps(value) {
         this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc.y = Number(value));
     }
-    set shapeRot(value) {
-        this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc.rotation = Number(value));
-    }
     set shapeWid(value) {
-        const oldWidth = NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._width);
         this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc._width = Number(value));
-        InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock && this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc._height = (NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._width) * NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._height)) / oldWidth);
     }
     set shapeHgt(value) {
-        const oldHeight = NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._height);
         this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc._height = Number(value));
-        InkStrokeProperties.Instance._lock && this.selectedDoc && (this.selectedDoc._width = (NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._height) * NumCast(this.selectedDoc?._width)) / oldHeight);
     }
 
     @computed get hgtInput() {
@@ -790,30 +760,6 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
             'Y:'
         );
     }
-    @computed get rotInput() {
-        return this.inputBoxDuo(
-            'rot',
-            this.shapeRot,
-            (val: string) => {
-                if (!isNaN(Number(val))) {
-                    this.rotate(Number(val) - Number(this.shapeRot));
-                    this.shapeRot = val;
-                }
-                return true;
-            },
-            '∠:',
-            'rot',
-            this.shapeRot,
-            (val: string) => {
-                if (!isNaN(Number(val))) {
-                    this.rotate(Number(val) - Number(this.shapeRot));
-                    this.shapeRot = val;
-                }
-                return true;
-            },
-            ''
-        );
-    }
 
     @observable private _fillBtn = false;
     @observable private _lineBtn = false;
@@ -1080,10 +1026,9 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
     @computed get transformEditor() {
         return (
             <div className="transform-editor">
-                {this.controlPointsButton}
+                {this.isInk ? this.controlPointsButton : null}
                 {this.hgtInput}
                 {this.XpsInput}
-                {this.rotInput}
             </div>
         );
     }
@@ -1194,17 +1139,15 @@ export class PropertiesView extends React.Component<PropertiesViewProps> {
                     </div>
                 )}
 
-                {this.isInk ? (
-                    <div className="propertiesView-transform">
-                        <div className="propertiesView-transform-title" onPointerDown={action(() => (this.openTransform = !this.openTransform))} style={{ backgroundColor: this.openTransform ? 'black' : '' }}>
-                            Transform
-                            <div className="propertiesView-transform-title-icon">
-                                <FontAwesomeIcon icon={this.openTransform ? 'caret-down' : 'caret-right'} size="lg" color="white" />
-                            </div>
+                <div className="propertiesView-transform">
+                    <div className="propertiesView-transform-title" onPointerDown={action(() => (this.openTransform = !this.openTransform))} style={{ backgroundColor: this.openTransform ? 'black' : '' }}>
+                        Transform
+                        <div className="propertiesView-transform-title-icon">
+                            <FontAwesomeIcon icon={this.openTransform ? 'caret-down' : 'caret-right'} size="lg" color="white" />
                         </div>
-                        {this.openTransform ? <div className="propertiesView-transform-content">{this.transformEditor}</div> : null}
                     </div>
-                ) : null}
+                    {this.openTransform ? <div className="propertiesView-transform-content">{this.transformEditor}</div> : null}
+                </div>
             </>
         );
     }
diff --git a/src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx b/src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx
index 02dd15960..2d2b0f83e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { Id } from '../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { List } from '../../fields/List';
 import { RichTextField } from '../../fields/RichTextField';
 import { DocCast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../fields/Types';
-import { emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnAll, returnOne, returnTrue, returnZero } from '../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnAll, returnFalse, returnOne, returnTrue, returnZero } from '../../Utils';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../documents/Documents';
 import { CollectionViewType, DocumentType } from '../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { LinkManager } from '../util/LinkManager';
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ interface ExtraProps {
     // usePanelWidth: boolean;
     showSidebar: boolean;
     nativeWidth: number;
+    usePanelWidth?: boolean;
     whenChildContentsActiveChanged: (isActive: boolean) => void;
     ScreenToLocalTransform: () => Transform;
     sidebarAddDocument: (doc: Doc | Doc[], suffix: string) => boolean;
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ export class SidebarAnnos extends React.Component<FieldViewProps & ExtraProps> {
         });
         FormattedTextBox.SelectOnLoad = target[Id];
         FormattedTextBox.DontSelectInitialText = true;
-        const link = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: anchor }, { doc: target }, 'inline comment:comment on');
+        const link = DocUtils.MakeLink(anchor, target, { linkRelationship: 'inline comment:comment on' });
         link && (link.linkDisplay = false);
 
         const taggedContent = this.docFilters()
@@ -158,13 +159,10 @@ export class SidebarAnnos extends React.Component<FieldViewProps & ExtraProps> {
             .ScreenToLocalTransform()
             .translate(Doc.NativeWidth(this.props.dataDoc), 0)
             .scale(this.props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1);
-    // panelWidth = () => !this.props.layoutDoc._showSidebar ? 0 :
-    //     this.props.usePanelWidth ? this.props.PanelWidth() :
-    //         (NumCast(this.props.layoutDoc.nativeWidth) - Doc.NativeWidth(this.props.dataDoc)) * this.props.PanelWidth() / NumCast(this.props.layoutDoc.nativeWidth);
     panelWidth = () =>
         !this.props.showSidebar
             ? 0
-            : this.props.layoutDoc.type === DocumentType.RTF || this.props.layoutDoc.type === DocumentType.MAP
+            : this.props.usePanelWidth // [DocumentType.RTF, DocumentType.MAP].includes(this.props.layoutDoc.type as any)
             ? this.props.PanelWidth() / (this.props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1)
             : ((NumCast(this.props.nativeWidth) - Doc.NativeWidth(this.props.dataDoc)) * this.props.PanelWidth()) / NumCast(this.props.nativeWidth);
     panelHeight = () => this.props.PanelHeight() - this.filtersHeight();
@@ -224,20 +222,21 @@ export class SidebarAnnos extends React.Component<FieldViewProps & ExtraProps> {
                 </div>
                 <div style={{ width: '100%', height: `calc(100% - 38px)`, position: 'relative' }}>
                     <CollectionStackingView
-                        {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
-                        ref={this._stackRef}
+                        {...this.props}
+                        setContentView={emptyFunction}
                         NativeWidth={returnZero}
                         NativeHeight={returnZero}
+                        ref={this._stackRef}
                         PanelHeight={this.panelHeight}
                         PanelWidth={this.panelWidth}
                         docFilters={this.docFilters}
-                        scaleField={this.sidebarKey + '-scale'}
                         sortFunc={this.sortByLinkAnchorY}
                         setHeight={this.setHeightCallback}
                         isAnnotationOverlay={false}
                         select={emptyFunction}
                         NativeDimScaling={returnOne}
                         //childShowTitle={this.showTitle}
+                        isAnyChildContentActive={returnFalse}
                         childDocumentsActive={this.props.isContentActive}
                         whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.props.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
                         childHideDecorationTitle={returnTrue}
diff --git a/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx b/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
index 50cf8eba7..f7b9420a7 100644
--- a/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<DocumentViewProps
             const docColor: Opt<string> = StrCast(doc?.[fieldKey + 'color'], StrCast(doc?._color));
             if (docColor) return docColor;
             const docView = props?.DocumentView?.();
-            const backColor = backgroundCol() || docView?.props.styleProvider?.(docView.props.treeViewDoc, docView.props, 'backgroundColor');
+            const backColor = backgroundCol() || docView?.props.styleProvider?.(docView.props.treeViewDoc, docView.props, StyleProp.BackgroundColor);
             if (!backColor) return undefined;
             return lightOrDark(backColor);
         case StyleProp.Hidden:
diff --git a/src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx b/src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx
index 681ff66e0..45db240a9 100644
--- a/src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ export class TemplateMenu extends React.Component<TemplateMenuProps> {
     };
     componentDidMount() {
         !this._addedKeys && (this._addedKeys = new ObservableSet());
-        Array.from(Object.keys(Doc.GetProto(this.props.docViews[0].props.Document)))
+        [...Array.from(Object.keys(Doc.GetProto(this.props.docViews[0].props.Document))), ...Array.from(Object.keys(this.props.docViews[0].props.Document))]
             .filter(key => key.startsWith('layout_'))
             .map(key => runInAction(() => this._addedKeys.add(key.replace('layout_', ''))));
     }
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx
index 57ff1b292..a266c9207 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
-import { OmitKeys, returnFalse, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
+import { returnFalse, returnZero, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
 import { DocumentView } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ export class CollectionCarousel3DView extends CollectionSubView() {
         const displayDoc = (childPair: { layout: Doc; data: Doc }) => {
             return (
                 <DocumentView
-                    {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'childLayoutTemplate', 'childLayoutString']).omit}
+                    {...this.props}
+                    NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                    NativeHeight={returnZero}
+                    suppressSetHeight={true}
                     onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClick}
                     renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
                     LayoutTemplate={this.props.childLayoutTemplate}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx
index 32f6207ed..c0220f804 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc, Opt } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
-import { OmitKeys, returnFalse } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, returnZero } from '../../../Utils';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
 import { DocumentView, DocumentViewProps } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export class CollectionCarouselView extends CollectionSubView() {
     @computed get content() {
         const index = NumCast(this.layoutDoc._itemIndex);
         const curDoc = this.childLayoutPairs?.[index];
-        const captionProps = { ...OmitKeys(this.props, ['setHeight']).omit, fieldKey: 'caption' };
+        const captionProps = { ...this.props, fieldKey: 'caption', setHeight: undefined };
         const marginX = NumCast(this.layoutDoc['caption-xMargin']);
         const marginY = NumCast(this.layoutDoc['caption-yMargin']);
         const showCaptions = StrCast(this.layoutDoc._showCaption);
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ export class CollectionCarouselView extends CollectionSubView() {
             <>
                 <div className="collectionCarouselView-image" key="image">
                     <DocumentView
-                        {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['setHeight', 'NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'childLayoutTemplate', 'childLayoutString']).omit}
+                        {...this.props}
+                        NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                        NativeHeight={returnZero}
                         onDoubleClick={this.onContentDoubleClick}
                         onClick={this.onContentClick}
                         hideCaptions={showCaptions ? true : false}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
index 121260680..cb5be990d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ export class CollectionNoteTakingView extends CollectionSubView() {
         } else if (de.complete.linkDragData?.dragDocument.context === this.props.Document && de.complete.linkDragData?.linkDragView?.props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.()) {
             const source = Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { _width: 200, _height: 75, _fitWidth: true, title: 'dropped annotation' });
             this.props.addDocument?.(source);
-            de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: source }, { doc: de.complete.linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor() }, 'doc annotation', ''); // TODODO this is where in text links get passed
+            de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink(source, de.complete.linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor(), { linkRelationship: 'doc annotation' }); // TODODO this is where in text links get passed
             e.stopPropagation();
         } else if (de.complete.annoDragData?.dragDocument && super.onInternalDrop(e, de)) return this.internalAnchorAnnoDrop(e, de.complete.annoDragData);
         return false;
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx
index 4941bc722..642d29d2a 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { listSpec } from '../../../fields/Schema';
 import { ComputedField, ScriptField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { Cast, NumCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { ImageField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
-import { emptyFunction, formatTime, OmitKeys, returnFalse, returnNone, returnOne, returnTrue, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScrollHorizontal, StopEvent } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, formatTime, returnEmptyDoclist, returnEmptyFilter, returnFalse, returnNone, returnTrue, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScrollHorizontal, StopEvent } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Docs } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { DocumentType } from '../../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../../util/DocumentManager';
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import { Transform } from '../../util/Transform';
 import { undoBatch, UndoManager } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { AudioWaveform } from '../AudioWaveform';
 import { CollectionSubView } from '../collections/CollectionSubView';
-import { Colors } from '../global/globalEnums';
 import { LightboxView } from '../LightboxView';
 import { DocFocusFunc, DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, DocumentViewProps } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { LabelBox } from '../nodes/LabelBox';
@@ -512,37 +511,6 @@ export class CollectionStackedTimeline extends CollectionSubView<CollectionStack
 
     currentTimecode = () => this.currentTime;
 
-    @computed get renderDictation() {
-        const dictation = Cast(this.dataDoc[this.props.dictationKey], Doc, null);
-        return !dictation ? null : (
-            <div
-                style={{
-                    position: 'absolute',
-                    height: '100%',
-                    top: this.timelineContentHeight,
-                    background: Colors.LIGHT_BLUE,
-                }}>
-                <DocumentView
-                    {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
-                    Document={dictation}
-                    PanelHeight={this.dictationHeight}
-                    isAnnotationOverlay={true}
-                    isDocumentActive={returnFalse}
-                    select={emptyFunction}
-                    NativeDimScaling={returnOne}
-                    xMargin={25}
-                    yMargin={10}
-                    ScreenToLocalTransform={this.dictationScreenToLocalTransform}
-                    whenChildContentsActiveChanged={emptyFunction}
-                    removeDocument={returnFalse}
-                    moveDocument={returnFalse}
-                    addDocument={returnFalse}
-                    CollectionView={undefined}
-                    renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}></DocumentView>
-            </div>
-        );
-    }
-
     // renders selection region on timeline
     @computed get selectionContainer() {
         const markerEnd = CollectionStackedTimeline.SelectingRegion === this ? this.currentTime : this._markerEnd;
@@ -638,7 +606,6 @@ export class CollectionStackedTimeline extends CollectionSubView<CollectionStack
                                 PanelWidth={this.timelineContentWidth}
                             />
                         )}
-                        {/* {this.renderDictation} */}
 
                         <div
                             className="collectionStackedTimeline-hover"
@@ -817,16 +784,22 @@ class StackedTimelineAnchor extends React.Component<StackedTimelineAnchorProps>
     // renders anchor LabelBox
     renderInner = computedFn(function (this: StackedTimelineAnchor, mark: Doc, script: undefined | (() => ScriptField), doublescript: undefined | (() => ScriptField), screenXf: () => Transform, width: () => number, height: () => number) {
         const anchor = observable({ view: undefined as any });
-        const focusFunc = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => this.props.playLink(mark);
+        const focusFunc = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions): number | undefined => {
+            this.props.playLink(mark);
+            return undefined;
+        };
         return {
             anchor,
             view: (
                 <DocumentView
                     key="view"
-                    {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight']).omit}
+                    {...this.props}
+                    NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                    NativeHeight={returnZero}
                     ref={action((r: DocumentView | null) => (anchor.view = r))}
                     Document={mark}
                     DataDoc={undefined}
+                    docViewPath={returnEmptyDoclist}
                     pointerEvents={this.noEvents ? returnNone : undefined}
                     styleProvider={this.props.styleProvider}
                     renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
@@ -837,7 +810,16 @@ class StackedTimelineAnchor extends React.Component<StackedTimelineAnchorProps>
                     PanelHeight={height}
                     fitWidth={returnTrue}
                     ScreenToLocalTransform={screenXf}
+                    addDocTab={returnFalse}
+                    pinToPres={emptyFunction}
+                    whenChildContentsActiveChanged={emptyFunction}
                     focus={focusFunc}
+                    isContentActive={returnFalse}
+                    ContainingCollectionView={undefined}
+                    ContainingCollectionDoc={undefined}
+                    searchFilterDocs={returnEmptyDoclist}
+                    docFilters={returnEmptyFilter}
+                    docRangeFilters={returnEmptyFilter}
                     rootSelected={returnFalse}
                     onClick={script}
                     onDoubleClick={this.props.layoutDoc.autoPlayAnchors ? undefined : doublescript}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
index 64ec419ec..1e02fc9d4 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
 import { CursorProperty } from 'csstype';
 import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, observable, reaction, runInAction } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
-import { DataSym, Doc, DocListCast, HeightSym, Opt, WidthSym } from '../../../fields/Doc';
+import { DataSym, Doc, HeightSym, Opt, WidthSym } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { List } from '../../../fields/List';
 import { listSpec } from '../../../fields/Schema';
 import { SchemaHeaderField } from '../../../fields/SchemaHeaderField';
-import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
+import { BoolCast, Cast, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
-import { emptyFunction, returnEmptyDoclist, returnFalse, returnTrue, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScroll, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnEmptyDoclist, returnFalse, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScroll, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { CollectionViewType } from '../../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { DragManager, dropActionType } from '../../util/DragManager';
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         } else if (de.complete.linkDragData?.dragDocument.context === this.props.Document && de.complete.linkDragData?.linkDragView?.props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.()) {
             const source = Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { _width: 200, _height: 75, _fitWidth: true, title: 'dropped annotation' });
             this.props.addDocument?.(source);
-            de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: source }, { doc: de.complete.linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor() }, 'doc annotation', ''); // TODODO this is where in text links get passed
+            de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink(source, de.complete.linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor(), { linkRelationship: 'doc annotation' }); // TODODO this is where in text links get passed
             e.stopPropagation();
         } else if (de.complete.annoDragData?.dragDocument && super.onInternalDrop(e, de)) return this.internalAnchorAnnoDrop(e, de.complete.annoDragData);
         return false;
@@ -623,11 +623,13 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     onContextMenu = (e: React.MouseEvent): void => {
         // need to test if propagation has stopped because GoldenLayout forces a parallel react hierarchy to be created for its top-level layout
         if (!e.isPropagationStopped()) {
-            const subItems: ContextMenuProps[] = [];
-            subItems.push({ description: `${this.layoutDoc._columnsFill ? 'Variable Size' : 'Autosize'} Column`, event: () => (this.layoutDoc._columnsFill = !this.layoutDoc._columnsFill), icon: 'plus' });
-            subItems.push({ description: `${this.layoutDoc._autoHeight ? 'Variable Height' : 'Auto Height'}`, event: () => (this.layoutDoc._autoHeight = !this.layoutDoc._autoHeight), icon: 'plus' });
-            subItems.push({ description: 'Clear All', event: () => (this.dataDoc.data = new List([])), icon: 'times' });
-            ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Options...', subitems: subItems, icon: 'eye' });
+            const cm = ContextMenu.Instance;
+            const options = cm.findByDescription('Options...');
+            const optionItems: ContextMenuProps[] = options && 'subitems' in options ? options.subitems : [];
+            optionItems.push({ description: `${this.layoutDoc._columnsFill ? 'Variable Size' : 'Autosize'} Column`, event: () => (this.layoutDoc._columnsFill = !this.layoutDoc._columnsFill), icon: 'plus' });
+            optionItems.push({ description: `${this.layoutDoc._autoHeight ? 'Variable Height' : 'Auto Height'}`, event: () => (this.layoutDoc._autoHeight = !this.layoutDoc._autoHeight), icon: 'plus' });
+            optionItems.push({ description: 'Clear All', event: () => (this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey ?? 'data'] = new List([])), icon: 'times' });
+            !options && cm.addItem({ description: 'Options...', subitems: optionItems, icon: 'compass' });
         }
     };
 
@@ -735,14 +737,6 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                                 <EditableView {...editableViewProps} />
                             </div>
                         )}
-                        {/* {this.chromeHidden || !this.props.isSelected() ? (null) :
-                            <Switch
-                                onChange={this.onToggle}
-                                onClick={this.onToggle}
-                                defaultChecked={true}
-                                checkedChildren="edit"
-                                unCheckedChildren="view"
-                            />} */}
                     </div>
                 </div>
             </>
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
index 5100d8d67..132ed6fb6 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
                                 const focusNode = iframe?.contentDocument?.getSelection()?.focusNode as any;
                                 if (focusNode) {
                                     const anchor = srcWeb?.ComponentView?.getAnchor?.(true);
-                                    anchor && DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: htmlDoc }, { doc: anchor });
+                                    anchor && DocUtils.MakeLink(htmlDoc, anchor, {});
                                 }
                             }
                         }
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
index 553967b95..4a11e8f0b 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { listSpec } from '../../../fields/Schema';
 import { ScriptField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { BoolCast, Cast, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
-import { emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnEmptyDoclist, returnEmptyFilter, returnFalse, returnOne, returnTrue } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnAll, returnEmptyDoclist, returnEmptyFilter, returnFalse, returnNone, returnOne, returnTrue, returnZero } from '../../../Utils';
 import { DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../../util/DocumentManager';
 import { DragManager, dropActionType } from '../../util/DragManager';
@@ -384,12 +384,12 @@ export class CollectionTreeView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collectionTree
         this.props.CollectionView?.moveDocument(doc, targetCollection, addDocument, `${this.props.fieldKey}-annotations`) || false;
 
     @observable _headerHeight = 0;
-    contentFunc = () => {
+    @computed get content() {
         const background = () => this.props.styleProvider?.(this.doc, this.props, StyleProp.BackgroundColor);
         const pointerEvents = () => (!this.props.isContentActive() && !SnappingManager.GetIsDragging() ? 'none' : undefined);
         const titleBar = this.props.treeViewHideTitle || this.doc.treeViewHideTitle ? null : this.titleBar;
-        return [
-            <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', height: '100%' }}>
+        return (
+            <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', height: '100%', pointerEvents: 'all' }}>
                 {!this.buttonMenu && !this.noviceExplainer ? null : (
                     <div className="documentButtonMenu" ref={action((r: HTMLDivElement | null) => r && (this._headerHeight = Number(getComputedStyle(r).height.replace(/px/, ''))))}>
                         {this.buttonMenu}
@@ -428,9 +428,9 @@ export class CollectionTreeView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collectionTree
                         </div>
                     </div>
                 </div>
-            </div>,
-        ];
-    };
+            </div>
+        );
+    }
     render() {
         TraceMobx();
 
@@ -439,7 +439,11 @@ export class CollectionTreeView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collectionTree
             <div style={{ transform: `scale(${scale})`, transformOrigin: 'top left', width: `${100 / scale}%`, height: `${100 / scale}%` }}>
                 {!(this.doc instanceof Doc) || !this.treeChildren ? null : this.doc.treeViewHasOverlay ? (
                     <CollectionFreeFormView
-                        {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
+                        {...this.props}
+                        setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                        NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                        NativeHeight={returnZero}
+                        pointerEvents={SnappingManager.GetIsDragging() ? returnAll : returnNone}
                         isAnnotationOverlay={true}
                         isAnnotationOverlayScrollable={true}
                         childDocumentsActive={this.props.isDocumentActive}
@@ -451,10 +455,10 @@ export class CollectionTreeView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collectionTree
                         moveDocument={this.moveAnnotationDocument}
                         bringToFront={emptyFunction}
                         renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}>
-                        {this.contentFunc}
+                        {this.content}
                     </CollectionFreeFormView>
                 ) : (
-                    this.contentFunc()
+                    this.content
                 )}
             </div>
         );
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
index 51624689e..bc25ad43a 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ interface CollectionViewProps_ extends FieldViewProps {
 
     // property overrides for child documents
     childDocuments?: Doc[]; // used to override the documents shown by the sub collection to an explicit list (see LinkBox)
-    childDocumentsActive?: () => boolean; // whether child documents can be dragged if collection can be dragged (eg., in a when a Pile document is in startburst mode)
+    childDocumentsActive?: () => boolean | undefined; // whether child documents can be dragged if collection can be dragged (eg., in a when a Pile document is in startburst mode)
     childFitWidth?: (child: Doc) => boolean;
     childShowTitle?: () => string;
     childOpacity?: () => number;
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
index 99b7549c0..75e76019e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ export class TreeView extends React.Component<TreeViewProps> {
         if (de.complete.linkDragData) {
             const sourceDoc = de.complete.linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor();
             const destDoc = this.doc;
-            DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: sourceDoc }, { doc: destDoc }, 'tree link', '');
+            DocUtils.MakeLink(sourceDoc, destDoc, { linkRelationship: 'tree link' });
             e.stopPropagation();
         }
         const docDragData = de.complete.docDragData;
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
index aed3683d4..9d4a788db 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Bezier } from 'bezier-js';
 import { Colors } from 'browndash-components';
-import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, observable, reaction, runInAction } from 'mobx';
+import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, observable, reaction, runInAction, trace } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import { computedFn } from 'mobx-utils';
 import { DateField } from '../../../../fields/DateField';
@@ -53,10 +53,14 @@ import { MarqueeView } from './MarqueeView';
 import React = require('react');
 
 export type collectionFreeformViewProps = {
+    noPointerWheel?: () => boolean; // turn off pointerwheel interactions (see PDFViewer)
+    NativeWidth?: () => number;
+    NativeHeight?: () => number;
+    originTopLeft?: boolean;
     annotationLayerHostsContent?: boolean; // whether to force scaling of content (needed by ImageBox)
     viewDefDivClick?: ScriptField;
     childPointerEvents?: string;
-    scaleField?: string;
+    viewField?: string;
     noOverlay?: boolean; // used to suppress docs in the overlay (z) layer (ie, for minimap since overlay doesn't scale)
     engineProps?: any;
     getScrollHeight?: () => number | undefined;
@@ -97,8 +101,14 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     private get isAnnotationOverlay() {
         return this.props.isAnnotationOverlay;
     }
-    private get scaleFieldKey() {
-        return this.props.scaleField || '_viewScale';
+    public get scaleFieldKey() {
+        return this.props.viewField ? this.props.viewField + '-viewScale' : '_viewScale';
+    }
+    private get panXFieldKey() {
+        return this.props.viewField ? this.props.viewField + '-panX' : '_panX';
+    }
+    private get panYFieldKey() {
+        return this.props.viewField ? this.props.viewField + '-panY' : '_panY';
     }
     private get borderWidth() {
         return this.isAnnotationOverlay ? 0 : COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH;
@@ -149,21 +159,21 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                   );
     }
     @computed get nativeWidth() {
-        return this.fitContentsToBox ? 0 : Doc.NativeWidth(this.Document, Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null));
+        return this.props.NativeWidth?.() || (this.fitContentsToBox ? 0 : Doc.NativeWidth(this.Document, Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null)));
     }
     @computed get nativeHeight() {
-        return this.fitContentsToBox ? 0 : Doc.NativeHeight(this.Document, Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null));
+        return this.props.NativeHeight?.() || (this.fitContentsToBox ? 0 : Doc.NativeHeight(this.Document, Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null)));
     }
     @computed get cachedCenteringShiftX(): number {
         const scaling = this.fitContentsToBox || !this.nativeDimScaling ? 1 : this.nativeDimScaling;
-        return this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? 0 : this.props.PanelWidth() / 2 / scaling; // shift so pan position is at center of window for non-overlay collections
+        return this.props.isAnnotationOverlay || this.props.originTopLeft ? 0 : this.props.PanelWidth() / 2 / scaling; // shift so pan position is at center of window for non-overlay collections
     }
     @computed get cachedCenteringShiftY(): number {
         const dv = this.props.DocumentView?.();
         const scaling = this.fitContentsToBox || !this.nativeDimScaling ? 1 : this.nativeDimScaling;
         // if freeform has a native aspect, then the panel height needs to be adjusted to match it
         const aspect = dv?.nativeWidth && dv?.nativeHeight && !dv.layoutDoc.fitWidth ? dv.nativeHeight / dv.nativeWidth : this.props.PanelHeight() / this.props.PanelWidth();
-        return this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? 0 : (aspect * this.props.PanelWidth()) / 2 / scaling; // shift so pan position is at center of window for non-overlay collections
+        return this.props.isAnnotationOverlay || this.props.originTopLeft ? 0 : (aspect * this.props.PanelWidth()) / 2 / scaling; // shift so pan position is at center of window for non-overlay collections
     }
     @computed get cachedGetLocalTransform(): Transform {
         return Transform.Identity()
@@ -236,13 +246,11 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     reverseNativeScaling = () => (this.fitContentsToBox ? true : false);
     // panx, pany, zoomscale all attempt to get values first from the layout controller, then from the layout/dataDoc (or template layout doc), and finally from the resolved template data document.
     // this search order, for example, allows icons of cropped images to find the panx/pany/zoom on the cropped image's data doc instead of the usual layout doc because the zoom/panX/panY define the cropped image
-    panX = () => this.freeformData()?.bounds.cx ?? NumCast(this.Document._panX, NumCast(Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null)?.panX, 1));
-    panY = () => this.freeformData()?.bounds.cy ?? NumCast(this.Document._panY, NumCast(Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null)?.panY, 1));
+    panX = () => this.freeformData()?.bounds.cx ?? NumCast(this.Document[this.panXFieldKey], NumCast(Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null)?.panX, 1));
+    panY = () => this.freeformData()?.bounds.cy ?? NumCast(this.Document[this.panYFieldKey], NumCast(Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null)?.panY, 1));
     zoomScaling = () => this.freeformData()?.scale ?? NumCast(Doc.Layout(this.Document)[this.scaleFieldKey], NumCast(Cast(this.Document.resolvedDataDoc, Doc, null)?.[this.scaleFieldKey], 1));
     contentTransform = () =>
-        !this.cachedCenteringShiftX && !this.cachedCenteringShiftY && this.zoomScaling() === 1
-            ? ''
-            : `translate(${this.cachedCenteringShiftX}px, ${this.cachedCenteringShiftY}px) scale(${this.zoomScaling()}) translate(${-this.panX()}px, ${-this.panY()}px)`;
+        this.props.isAnnotationOverlay && this.zoomScaling() === 1 ? `` : `translate(${this.cachedCenteringShiftX}px, ${this.cachedCenteringShiftY}px) scale(${this.zoomScaling()}) translate(${-this.panX()}px, ${-this.panY()}px)`;
     getTransform = () => this.cachedGetTransform.copy();
     getLocalTransform = () => this.cachedGetLocalTransform.copy();
     getContainerTransform = () => this.cachedGetContainerTransform.copy();
@@ -293,7 +301,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     }
 
     groupFocus = (anchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
-        options.docTransform = new Transform(-NumCast(this.rootDoc.panX) + NumCast(anchor.x), -NumCast(this.rootDoc.panY) + NumCast(anchor.y), 1);
+        options.docTransform = new Transform(-NumCast(this.rootDoc[this.panXFieldKey]) + NumCast(anchor.x), -NumCast(this.rootDoc[this.panYFieldKey]) + NumCast(anchor.y), 1);
         const res = this.props.focus(this.rootDoc, options);
         options.docTransform = undefined;
         return res;
@@ -301,7 +309,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
 
     focus = (anchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
         const xfToCollection = options?.docTransform ?? Transform.Identity();
-        const savedState = { panX: NumCast(this.Document._panX), panY: NumCast(this.Document._panY), scale: options?.willZoomCentered ? this.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] : undefined };
+        const savedState = { panX: NumCast(this.Document[this.panXFieldKey]), panY: NumCast(this.Document[this.panYFieldKey]), scale: options?.willZoomCentered ? this.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] : undefined };
         const cantTransform = this.fitContentsToBox || ((this.rootDoc._isGroup || this.layoutDoc._lockedTransform) && !LightboxView.LightboxDoc);
         const { panX, panY, scale } = cantTransform || (!options.willPan && !options.willZoomCentered) ? savedState : this.calculatePanIntoView(anchor, xfToCollection, options?.willZoomCentered ? options?.zoomScale || 0.75 : undefined);
 
@@ -389,7 +397,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 // if the source doc view's context isn't this same freeformcollectionlinkDragData.dragDocument.context === this.props.Document
                 const source = Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { _width: 200, _height: 75, x: xp, y: yp, title: 'dropped annotation' });
                 this.props.addDocument?.(source);
-                de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor() }, { doc: source }, 'annotated by:annotation of', ''); // TODODO this is where in text links get passed
+                de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink(linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor(), source, { linkRelationship: 'annotated by:annotation of' }); // TODODO this is where in text links get passed
             }
             e.stopPropagation(); //  do nothing if link is dropped into any freeform view parent of dragged document
             return true;
@@ -656,8 +664,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                     ActiveIsInkMask(),
                     {
                         title: 'ink stroke',
-                        x: B.x - ActiveInkWidth() / 2,
-                        y: B.y - ActiveInkWidth() / 2,
+                        x: B.x - (ActiveInkWidth() * this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().Scale) / 2,
+                        y: B.y - (ActiveInkWidth() * this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().Scale) / 2,
                         _width: B.width + ActiveInkWidth() * this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().Scale,
                         _height: B.height + ActiveInkWidth() * this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().Scale,
                     }
@@ -772,7 +780,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         PresBox.Instance?.pauseAutoPres();
         const dx = e.deltaX;
         const dy = e.deltaY;
-        this.setPan(NumCast(this.Document._panX) - dx, NumCast(this.Document._panY) - dy, 0, true);
+        this.setPan(NumCast(this.Document[this.panXFieldKey]) - dx, NumCast(this.Document[this.panYFieldKey]) - dy, 0, true);
     };
 
     @action
@@ -780,7 +788,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         PresBox.Instance?.pauseAutoPres();
         this.props.DocumentView?.().clearViewTransition();
         const [dx, dy] = this.getTransform().transformDirection(e.clientX - this._lastX, e.clientY - this._lastY);
-        this.setPan(NumCast(this.Document._panX) - dx, NumCast(this.Document._panY) - dy, 0, true);
+        this.setPan(NumCast(this.Document[this.panXFieldKey]) - dx, NumCast(this.Document[this.panYFieldKey]) - dy, 0, true);
         this._lastX = e.clientX;
         this._lastY = e.clientY;
     };
@@ -979,13 +987,13 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         if (localTransform.Scale >= 0.05 || localTransform.Scale > this.zoomScaling()) {
             const safeScale = Math.min(Math.max(0.05, localTransform.Scale), 20);
             this.props.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] = Math.abs(safeScale);
-            this.setPan(-localTransform.TranslateX / safeScale, NumCast(this.props.Document.scrollTop) * safeScale || -localTransform.TranslateY / safeScale);
+            this.setPan(-localTransform.TranslateX / safeScale, (this.props.originTopLeft ? undefined : NumCast(this.props.Document.scrollTop) * safeScale) || -localTransform.TranslateY / safeScale);
         }
     };
 
     @action
     onPointerWheel = (e: React.WheelEvent): void => {
-        if (this.Document._isGroup || !this.isContentActive()) return; // group style collections neither pan nor zoom
+        if (this.props.noPointerWheel?.() || this.Document._isGroup || !this.isContentActive()) return; // group style collections neither pan nor zoom
         PresBox.Instance?.pauseAutoPres();
         if (this.layoutDoc._Transform || DocListCast(Doc.MyOverlayDocs?.data).includes(this.props.Document) || this.props.Document.treeViewOutlineMode === TreeViewType.outline) return;
         e.stopPropagation();
@@ -995,7 +1003,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 // if ctrl is selected then zoom
                 if (e.ctrlKey) {
                     if (this.props.isContentActive(true)) {
-                        !this.props.isAnnotationOverlayScrollable && this.zoom(e.clientX, e.clientY, e.deltaY); // if (!this.props.isAnnotationOverlay) // bcz: do we want to zoom in on images/videos/etc?
+                        this.zoom(e.clientX, e.clientY, e.deltaY); // if (!this.props.isAnnotationOverlay) // bcz: do we want to zoom in on images/videos/etc?
                     }
                 } // otherwise pan
                 else if (this.props.isContentActive(true)) {
@@ -1039,16 +1047,19 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                         yrange: { min: Math.min(yrange.min, pos.y), max: Math.max(yrange.max, pos.y + (size.height || 0)) },
                     }),
                     {
-                        xrange: { min: Number.MAX_VALUE, max: -Number.MAX_VALUE },
-                        yrange: { min: Number.MAX_VALUE, max: -Number.MAX_VALUE },
+                        xrange: { min: this.props.originTopLeft ? 0 : Number.MAX_VALUE, max: -Number.MAX_VALUE },
+                        yrange: { min: this.props.originTopLeft ? 0 : Number.MAX_VALUE, max: -Number.MAX_VALUE },
                     }
                 );
 
-                const panelDim = [this.props.PanelWidth() / this.zoomScaling(), this.props.PanelHeight() / this.zoomScaling()];
-                if (ranges.xrange.min >= panX + panelDim[0] / 2) panX = ranges.xrange.max + panelDim[0] / 2; // snaps pan position of range of content goes out of bounds
-                else if (ranges.xrange.max <= panX - panelDim[0] / 2) panX = ranges.xrange.min - panelDim[0] / 2;
-                if (ranges.yrange.min >= panY + panelDim[1] / 2) panY = ranges.yrange.max + panelDim[1] / 2;
-                else if (ranges.yrange.max <= panY - panelDim[1] / 2) panY = ranges.yrange.min - panelDim[1] / 2;
+                const panelWidMax = (this.props.PanelWidth() / this.zoomScaling()) * (this.props.originTopLeft ? 2 / this.nativeDimScaling : 1);
+                const panelWidMin = (this.props.PanelWidth() / this.zoomScaling()) * (this.props.originTopLeft ? 0 : 1);
+                const panelHgtMax = (this.props.PanelHeight() / this.zoomScaling()) * (this.props.originTopLeft ? 2 / this.nativeDimScaling : 1);
+                const panelHgtMin = (this.props.PanelHeight() / this.zoomScaling()) * (this.props.originTopLeft ? 0 : 1);
+                if (ranges.xrange.min >= panX + panelWidMax / 2) panX = ranges.xrange.max + (this.props.originTopLeft ? 0 : panelWidMax / 2);
+                else if (ranges.xrange.max <= panX - panelWidMin / 2) panX = ranges.xrange.min - (this.props.originTopLeft ? panelWidMax / 2 : panelWidMin / 2);
+                if (ranges.yrange.min >= panY + panelHgtMax / 2) panY = ranges.yrange.max + (this.props.originTopLeft ? 0 : panelHgtMax / 2);
+                else if (ranges.yrange.max <= panY - panelHgtMin / 2) panY = ranges.yrange.min - (this.props.originTopLeft ? panelHgtMax / 2 : panelHgtMin / 2);
             }
         }
         if (!this.layoutDoc._lockedTransform || LightboxView.LightboxDoc || DocListCast(Doc.MyOverlayDocs?.data).includes(this.Document)) {
@@ -1078,8 +1089,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 }, 10);
                 newPanY = minPanY;
             }
-            !this.Document._verticalScroll && (this.Document._panX = this.isAnnotationOverlay ? newPanX : panX);
-            !this.Document._horizontalScroll && (this.Document._panY = this.isAnnotationOverlay ? newPanY : panY);
+            !this.Document._verticalScroll && (this.Document[this.panXFieldKey] = this.isAnnotationOverlay ? newPanX : panX);
+            !this.Document._horizontalScroll && (this.Document[this.panYFieldKey] = this.isAnnotationOverlay ? newPanY : panY);
         }
     }
 
@@ -1087,8 +1098,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     nudge = (x: number, y: number, nudgeTime: number = 500) => {
         if (this.props.ContainingCollectionDoc?._viewType !== CollectionViewType.Freeform || this.props.ContainingCollectionDoc._panX !== undefined) {
             this.setPan(
-                NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panX) + ((this.props.PanelWidth() / 2) * x) / this.zoomScaling(), // nudge x,y as a function of panel dimension and scale
-                NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panY) + ((this.props.PanelHeight() / 2) * -y) / this.zoomScaling(),
+                NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panXFieldKey]) + ((this.props.PanelWidth() / 2) * x) / this.zoomScaling(), // nudge x,y as a function of panel dimension and scale
+                NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panYFieldKey]) + ((this.props.PanelHeight() / 2) * -y) / this.zoomScaling(),
                 nudgeTime,
                 true
             );
@@ -1106,12 +1117,14 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         } else {
             const docs = this.childLayoutPairs.map(pair => pair.layout).slice();
             docs.sort((doc1, doc2) => NumCast(doc1.zIndex) - NumCast(doc2.zIndex));
-            let zlast = docs.length ? Math.max(docs.length, NumCast(docs[docs.length - 1].zIndex)) : 1;
-            if (zlast - docs.length > 100) {
-                for (let i = 0; i < docs.length; i++) doc.zIndex = i + 1;
-                zlast = docs.length + 1;
+            let zlast = docs.length ? Math.max(docs.length, NumCast(docs.lastElement().zIndex)) : 1;
+            if (docs.lastElement() !== doc) {
+                if (zlast - docs.length > 100) {
+                    for (let i = 0; i < docs.length; i++) doc.zIndex = i + 1;
+                    zlast = docs.length + 1;
+                }
+                doc.zIndex = zlast + 1;
             }
-            doc.zIndex = zlast + 1;
         }
     };
 
@@ -1134,8 +1147,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         const newScreenXY = this.getTransform().inverse().transformPoint(docpt[0], docpt[1]);
         const scrDelta = { x: screenXY[0] - newScreenXY[0], y: screenXY[1] - newScreenXY[1] };
         const newpan = this.getTransform().transformDirection(scrDelta.x, scrDelta.y);
-        this.layoutDoc._panX = NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panX) - newpan[0];
-        this.layoutDoc._panY = NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panY) - newpan[1];
+        this.layoutDoc[this.panXFieldKey] = NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panXFieldKey]) - newpan[0];
+        this.layoutDoc[this.panYFieldKey] = NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panYFieldKey]) - newpan[1];
     }
 
     calculatePanIntoView = (doc: Doc, xf: Transform, scale?: number) => {
@@ -1158,8 +1171,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         const panelHeight = this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? this.nativeHeight : this.props.PanelHeight();
         const pw = panelWidth / NumCast(this.layoutDoc._viewScale, 1);
         const ph = panelHeight / NumCast(this.layoutDoc._viewScale, 1);
-        const cx = NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panX) + (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? pw / 2 : 0);
-        const cy = NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panY) + (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? ph / 2 : 0);
+        const cx = NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panXFieldKey]) + (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? pw / 2 : 0);
+        const cy = NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panYFieldKey]) + (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? ph / 2 : 0);
         const screen = { left: cx - pw / 2, right: cx + pw / 2, top: cy - ph / 2, bot: cy + ph / 2 };
         const maxYShift = Math.max(0, screen.bot - screen.top - (bounds.bot - bounds.top));
         const phborder = bounds.top < screen.top || bounds.bot > screen.bot ? Math.min(ph / 10, maxYShift / 2) : 0;
@@ -1171,8 +1184,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
             };
         }
         return {
-            panX: (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panX) : cx) + Math.min(0, bounds.left - pw / 10 - screen.left) + Math.max(0, bounds.right + pw / 10 - screen.right),
-            panY: (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panY) : cy) + Math.min(0, bounds.top - phborder - screen.top) + Math.max(0, bounds.bot + phborder - screen.bot),
+            panX: (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panXFieldKey]) : cx) + Math.min(0, bounds.left - pw / 10 - screen.left) + Math.max(0, bounds.right + pw / 10 - screen.right),
+            panY: (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panYFieldKey]) : cy) + Math.min(0, bounds.top - phborder - screen.top) + Math.max(0, bounds.bot + phborder - screen.bot),
         };
     };
 
@@ -1395,6 +1408,24 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     }
 
     doFreeformLayout(poolData: Map<string, PoolData>) {
+        if (this.layoutDoc._autoArrange) {
+            const sorted = this.childLayoutPairs.slice().sort((a, b) => (NumCast(a.layout.y) < NumCast(b.layout.y) ? -1 : 1));
+            if (sorted.length > 1) {
+                const deltay = sorted.length > 1 ? NumCast(sorted[1].layout.y) - (NumCast(sorted[0].layout.y) + NumCast(sorted[0].layout._height)) : 0;
+                const deltax = sorted.length > 1 ? NumCast(sorted[1].layout.x) - NumCast(sorted[0].layout.x) : 0;
+
+                let lastx = NumCast(sorted[0].layout.x);
+                let lasty = NumCast(sorted[0].layout.y) + NumCast(sorted[0].layout._height);
+                setTimeout(
+                    action(() =>
+                        sorted.slice(1).forEach((pair, i) => {
+                            lastx = pair.layout.x = lastx + deltax;
+                            lasty = (pair.layout.y = lasty + deltay) + NumCast(pair.layout._height);
+                        })
+                    )
+                );
+            }
+        }
         this.childLayoutPairs.filter(pair => this.isCurrent(pair.layout)).map((pair, i) => poolData.set(pair.layout[Id], this.getCalculatedPositions({ pair, index: i, collection: this.Document })));
         return [] as ViewDefResult[];
     }
@@ -1459,7 +1490,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
 
         if (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay && this.props.Document[this.scaleFieldKey]) {
             // don't zoom out farther than 1-1 if it's a bounded item (image, video, pdf), otherwise don't allow zooming in closer than 1-1 if it's a text sidebar
-            if (this.props.scaleField) this.props.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] = Math.min(1, this.zoomScaling());
+            if (this.props.viewField) this.props.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] = Math.min(1, this.zoomScaling());
             else this.props.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] = Math.max(1, this.zoomScaling()); // NumCast(this.props.Document[this.scaleFieldKey]));
         }
 
@@ -1501,7 +1532,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                     cbounds => {
                         if (cbounds) {
                             const c = [NumCast(this.layoutDoc.x) + this.layoutDoc[WidthSym]() / 2, NumCast(this.layoutDoc.y) + this.layoutDoc[HeightSym]() / 2];
-                            const p = [NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panX), NumCast(this.layoutDoc._panY)];
+                            const p = [NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panXFieldKey]), NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panYFieldKey])];
                             const pbounds = {
                                 x: cbounds.x - p[0] + c[0],
                                 y: cbounds.y - p[1] + c[1],
@@ -1511,8 +1542,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                             if (Number.isFinite(pbounds.r - pbounds.x) && Number.isFinite(pbounds.b - pbounds.y)) {
                                 this.layoutDoc._width = pbounds.r - pbounds.x;
                                 this.layoutDoc._height = pbounds.b - pbounds.y;
-                                this.layoutDoc._panX = (cbounds.r + cbounds.x) / 2;
-                                this.layoutDoc._panY = (cbounds.b + cbounds.y) / 2;
+                                this.layoutDoc[this.panXFieldKey] = (cbounds.r + cbounds.x) / 2;
+                                this.layoutDoc[this.panYFieldKey] = (cbounds.b + cbounds.y) / 2;
                                 this.layoutDoc.x = pbounds.x;
                                 this.layoutDoc.y = pbounds.y;
                             }
@@ -1634,8 +1665,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
             const deltaX = dragX - bounds.left < 25 ? -(25 + (bounds.left - dragX)) : bounds.right - dragX < 25 ? 25 - (bounds.right - dragX) : 0;
             const deltaY = dragY - bounds.top < 25 ? -(25 + (bounds.top - dragY)) : bounds.bottom - dragY < 25 ? 25 - (bounds.bottom - dragY) : 0;
             if (deltaX !== 0 || deltaY !== 0) {
-                this.Document._panY = NumCast(this.Document._panY) + deltaY / 2;
-                this.Document._panX = NumCast(this.Document._panX) + deltaX / 2;
+                this.Document[this.panYFieldKey] = NumCast(this.Document[this.panYFieldKey]) + deltaY / 2;
+                this.Document[this.panXFieldKey] = NumCast(this.Document[this.panXFieldKey]) + deltaX / 2;
             }
         }
         e.stopPropagation();
@@ -1659,8 +1690,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         const height = Math.max(...docs.map(doc => NumCast(doc._height))) + 20;
         const dim = Math.ceil(Math.sqrt(docs.length));
         docs.forEach((doc, i) => {
-            doc.x = NumCast(this.Document._panX) + (i % dim) * width - (width * dim) / 2;
-            doc.y = NumCast(this.Document._panY) + Math.floor(i / dim) * height - (height * dim) / 2;
+            doc.x = NumCast(this.Document[this.panXFieldKey]) + (i % dim) * width - (width * dim) / 2;
+            doc.y = NumCast(this.Document[this.panYFieldKey]) + Math.floor(i / dim) * height - (height * dim) / 2;
         });
     };
 
@@ -1675,11 +1706,20 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         appearanceItems.push({
             description: 'Reset View',
             event: () => {
-                this.props.Document._panX = this.props.Document._panY = 0;
+                this.props.Document[this.panXFieldKey] = this.props.Document[this.panYFieldKey] = 0;
                 this.props.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] = 1;
             },
             icon: 'compress-arrows-alt',
         });
+        appearanceItems.push({
+            description: 'Toggle auto arrange',
+            event: () => (this.layoutDoc._autoArrange = !this.layoutDoc._autoArrange),
+            icon: 'compress-arrows-alt',
+        });
+        if (this.props.setContentView === emptyFunction) {
+            !appearance && ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Appearance...', subitems: appearanceItems, icon: 'eye' });
+            return;
+        }
         !Doc.noviceMode && Doc.UserDoc().defaultTextLayout && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Reset default note style', event: () => (Doc.UserDoc().defaultTextLayout = undefined), icon: 'eye' });
         appearanceItems.push({
             description: `${this.fitContentsToBox ? 'Make Zoomable' : 'Scale to Window'}`,
@@ -1687,7 +1727,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
             icon: !this.fitContentsToBox ? 'expand-arrows-alt' : 'compress-arrows-alt',
         });
         appearanceItems.push({ description: `Pin View`, event: () => TabDocView.PinDoc(this.rootDoc, { pinViewport: MarqueeView.CurViewBounds(this.rootDoc, this.props.PanelWidth(), this.props.PanelHeight()) }), icon: 'map-pin' });
-        //appearanceItems.push({ description: `update icon`, event: this.updateIcon, icon: "compress-arrows-alt" });
+        !Doc.noviceMode && appearanceItems.push({ description: `update icon`, event: this.updateIcon, icon: 'compress-arrows-alt' });
         appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Ungroup collection', event: this.promoteCollection, icon: 'table' });
 
         this.props.Document._isGroup && this.Document.transcription && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Ink to text', event: () => this.transcribeStrokes(false), icon: 'font' });
@@ -1717,27 +1757,9 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         !options && ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Options...', subitems: optionItems, icon: 'eye' });
         const mores = ContextMenu.Instance.findByDescription('More...');
         const moreItems = mores && 'subitems' in mores ? mores.subitems : [];
-        moreItems.push({ description: 'Import exported collection', icon: 'upload', event: ({ x, y }) => this.importDocument(e.clientX, e.clientY) });
         !mores && ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'More...', subitems: moreItems, icon: 'eye' });
     };
 
-    importDocument = (x: number, y: number) => {
-        const input = document.createElement('input');
-        input.type = 'file';
-        input.accept = '.zip';
-        input.onchange = _e => {
-            input.files &&
-                Doc.importDocument(input.files[0]).then(doc => {
-                    if (doc instanceof Doc) {
-                        const [xx, yy] = this.getTransform().transformPoint(x, y);
-                        (doc.x = xx), (doc.y = yy);
-                        this.props.addDocument?.(doc);
-                    }
-                });
-        };
-        input.click();
-    };
-
     @undoBatch
     @action
     transcribeStrokes = (math: boolean) => {
@@ -1795,11 +1817,11 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         this.childDocs.some(doc => !this._renderCutoffData.get(doc[Id])) && setTimeout(this.incrementalRender, 1);
     });
 
-    children = () => {
+    get children() {
         this.incrementalRender();
-        const children = typeof this.props.children === 'function' ? ((this.props.children as any)() as JSX.Element[]) : [];
+        const children = typeof this.props.children === 'function' ? ((this.props.children as any)() as JSX.Element[]) : this.props.children ? [this.props.children] : [];
         return [...children, ...this.views, <CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors {...this.props} key="remoteCursors" />];
-    };
+    }
 
     @computed get placeholder() {
         return (
@@ -1843,6 +1865,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                                 PanelHeight={this.props.PanelHeight}
                                 panX={this.panX}
                                 panY={this.panY}
+                                nativeDimScaling={this.nativeDim}
                                 zoomScaling={this.zoomScaling}
                                 layoutDoc={this.layoutDoc}
                                 isAnnotationOverlay={this.isAnnotationOverlay}
@@ -1877,6 +1900,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         const wscale = nw ? this.props.PanelWidth() / nw : 1;
         return wscale < hscale || this.layoutDoc.fitWidth ? wscale : hscale;
     }
+    nativeDim = () => this.nativeDimScaling;
 
     private groupDropDisposer?: DragManager.DragDropDisposer;
     protected createGroupEventsTarget = (ele: HTMLDivElement) => {
@@ -1912,7 +1936,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 ref={r => {
                     this.createDashEventsTarget(r);
                     // prevent wheel events from passivly propagating up through containers
-                    r?.addEventListener('wheel', (e: WheelEvent) => this.props.isSelected() && e.preventDefault(), { passive: false });
+                    !this.props.isAnnotationOverlay && r?.addEventListener('wheel', (e: WheelEvent) => this.props.isSelected() && e.preventDefault(), { passive: false });
                 }}
                 onWheel={this.onPointerWheel}
                 onClick={this.onClick}
@@ -1985,7 +2009,8 @@ interface CollectionFreeFormViewPannableContentsProps {
     transform: () => string;
     zoomScaling: () => number;
     viewDefDivClick?: ScriptField;
-    children: () => JSX.Element[];
+    children?: React.ReactNode | undefined;
+    //children: () => JSX.Element[];
     transition?: string;
     presPaths: () => JSX.Element | null;
     presPinView?: boolean;
@@ -2079,7 +2104,7 @@ class CollectionFreeFormViewPannableContents extends React.Component<CollectionF
                     width: this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? undefined : 0, // if not an overlay, then this will be the size of the collection, but panning and zooming will move it outside the visible border of the collection and make it selectable.  This problem shows up after zooming/panning on a background collection -- you can drag the collection by clicking on apparently empty space outside the collection
                     //willChange: "transform"
                 }}>
-                {this.props.children()}
+                {this.props.children}
                 {!this.props.brushView.width ? null : (
                     <div
                         className="collectionFreeFormView-brushView"
@@ -2107,6 +2132,7 @@ interface CollectionFreeFormViewBackgroundGridProps {
     PanelWidth: () => number;
     PanelHeight: () => number;
     isAnnotationOverlay?: boolean;
+    nativeDimScaling: () => number;
     zoomScaling: () => number;
     layoutDoc: Doc;
     cachedCenteringShiftX: number;
@@ -2124,10 +2150,10 @@ class CollectionFreeFormBackgroundGrid extends React.Component<CollectionFreeFor
         const shiftX = (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? 0 : (-this.props.panX() % gridSpace) - gridSpace) * this.props.zoomScaling();
         const shiftY = (this.props.isAnnotationOverlay ? 0 : (-this.props.panY() % gridSpace) - gridSpace) * this.props.zoomScaling();
         const renderGridSpace = gridSpace * this.props.zoomScaling();
-        const w = this.props.PanelWidth() + 2 * renderGridSpace;
-        const h = this.props.PanelHeight() + 2 * renderGridSpace;
+        const w = this.props.PanelWidth() / this.props.nativeDimScaling() + 2 * renderGridSpace;
+        const h = this.props.PanelHeight() / this.props.nativeDimScaling() + 2 * renderGridSpace;
         const strokeStyle = Doc.ActiveDashboard?.colorScheme === ColorScheme.Dark ? 'rgba(255,255,255,0.5)' : 'rgba(0, 0,0,0.5)';
-        return (
+        return !this.props.nativeDimScaling() ? null : (
             <canvas
                 className="collectionFreeFormView-grid"
                 width={w}
@@ -2174,7 +2200,7 @@ export function CollectionBrowseClick(dv: DocumentView, clientX: number, clientY
         const selfFfview = !dv.rootDoc._isGroup && dv.ComponentView instanceof CollectionFreeFormView ? dv.ComponentView : undefined;
         let parFfview = dv.props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.().props.CollectionFreeFormView;
         while (parFfview?.rootDoc._isGroup) parFfview = parFfview.props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.().props.CollectionFreeFormView;
-        const ffview = selfFfview && selfFfview.rootDoc[selfFfview.props.scaleField || '_viewScale'] !== 0.5 ? selfFfview : parFfview; // if focus doc is a freeform that is not at it's default 0.5 scale, then zoom out on it.  Otherwise, zoom out on the parent ffview
+        const ffview = selfFfview && selfFfview.rootDoc[selfFfview.scaleFieldKey] !== 0.5 ? selfFfview : parFfview; // if focus doc is a freeform that is not at it's default 0.5 scale, then zoom out on it.  Otherwise, zoom out on the parent ffview
         ffview?.zoomSmoothlyAboutPt(ffview.getTransform().transformPoint(clientX, clientY), 0.5, browseTransitionTime);
         Doc.linkFollowHighlight(dv?.props.Document, false);
     } else {
@@ -2193,11 +2219,17 @@ ScriptingGlobals.add(function curKeyFrame(readOnly: boolean) {
     if (readOnly) return selView[0].ComponentView?.getKeyFrameEditing?.() ? Colors.MEDIUM_BLUE : 'transparent';
     runInAction(() => selView[0].ComponentView?.setKeyFrameEditing?.(!selView[0].ComponentView?.getKeyFrameEditing?.()));
 });
-ScriptingGlobals.add(function pinWithView(readOnly: boolean, pinDocContent: boolean) {
-    !readOnly &&
-        SelectionManager.Views().forEach(view =>
-            TabDocView.PinDoc(view.rootDoc, { currentFrame: Cast(view.rootDoc.currentFrame, 'number', null), pinDocContent, pinViewport: MarqueeView.CurViewBounds(view.rootDoc, view.props.PanelWidth(), view.props.PanelHeight()) })
-        );
+ScriptingGlobals.add(function pinWithView(pinContent: boolean) {
+    SelectionManager.Views().forEach(view =>
+        view.props.pinToPres(view.rootDoc, {
+            currentFrame: Cast(view.rootDoc.currentFrame, 'number', null),
+            pinData: {
+                poslayoutview: pinContent,
+                dataview: pinContent,
+            },
+            pinViewport: MarqueeView.CurViewBounds(view.rootDoc, view.props.PanelWidth(), view.props.PanelHeight()),
+        })
+    );
 });
 ScriptingGlobals.add(function bringToFront() {
     SelectionManager.Views().forEach(view => view.props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.().props.CollectionFreeFormView.bringToFront(view.rootDoc));
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
index f16371592..d443df0f3 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ export class MarqueeView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProps & Marque
 
     @action
     onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent): void => {
+        // if (this.props.pointerEvents?.() === 'none') return;
         this._downX = this._lastX = e.clientX;
         this._downY = this._lastY = e.clientY;
         if (!(e.nativeEvent as any).marqueeHit) {
@@ -345,6 +346,7 @@ export class MarqueeView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProps & Marque
 
     @action
     onClick = (e: React.MouseEvent): void => {
+        if (this.props.pointerEvents?.() === 'none') return;
         if (Math.abs(e.clientX - this._downX) < Utils.DRAG_THRESHOLD && Math.abs(e.clientY - this._downY) < Utils.DRAG_THRESHOLD) {
             if (Doc.ActiveTool === InkTool.None) {
                 if (!(e.nativeEvent as any).marqueeHit) {
@@ -394,6 +396,7 @@ export class MarqueeView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProps & Marque
         newCollection._height = this.Bounds.height;
         newCollection._isGroup = makeGroup;
         newCollection.forceActive = makeGroup;
+        newCollection.enableDragWhenActive = makeGroup;
         newCollection.x = this.Bounds.left;
         newCollection.y = this.Bounds.top;
         newCollection.fitWidth = true;
@@ -525,7 +528,7 @@ export class MarqueeView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProps & Marque
         });
         const summary = Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { backgroundColor: '#e2ad32', x: this.Bounds.left, y: this.Bounds.top, followLinkToggle: true, _width: 200, _height: 200, _fitContentsToBox: true, _showSidebar: true, title: 'overview' });
         const portal = Docs.Create.FreeformDocument(selected, { x: this.Bounds.left + 200, y: this.Bounds.top, isGroup: true, backgroundColor: 'transparent' });
-        DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: summary }, { doc: portal }, 'summary of:summarized by', '');
+        DocUtils.MakeLink(summary, portal, { linkRelationship: 'summary of:summarized by' });
 
         portal.hidden = true;
         this.props.addDocument?.(portal);
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx
index 9468c5f06..e8ae88ae5 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc, Opt } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Id } from '../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { BoolCast, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../../fields/Types';
-import { emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../../Utils';
 import { Docs } from '../../../documents/Documents';
 import { DragManager } from '../../../util/DragManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../../util/SnappingManager';
@@ -186,7 +186,10 @@ export class CollectionGridView extends CollectionSubView() {
     getDisplayDoc(layout: Doc, dxf: () => Transform, width: () => number, height: () => number) {
         return (
             <DocumentView
-                {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight']).omit}
+                {...this.props}
+                NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                NativeHeight={returnZero}
+                setContentView={emptyFunction}
                 Document={layout}
                 DataDoc={layout.resolvedDataDoc as Doc}
                 isContentActive={this.isChildContentActive}
@@ -196,7 +199,7 @@ export class CollectionGridView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.props.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
                 onClick={this.onChildClickHandler}
                 renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
-                dontCenter={this.props.Document.centerY ? '' : 'y'}
+                dontCenter={this.props.Document.centerY ? undefined : 'y'}
             />
         );
     }
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx
index a062c65fc..c7d9b6619 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ export class CollectionLinearView extends CollectionSubView() {
 
     componentDidMount() {
         this._widthDisposer = reaction(
-            () => 5 + this.dimension() + (this.layoutDoc.linearViewIsExpanded ? this.childDocs.filter(doc => !doc.hidden).reduce((tot, doc) => (doc[WidthSym]() || this.dimension()) + tot + 4, 0) : 0),
+            () => 5 + NumCast(this.rootDoc.linearBtnWidth, this.dimension()) + (this.layoutDoc.linearViewIsExpanded ? this.childDocs.filter(doc => !doc.hidden).reduce((tot, doc) => (doc[WidthSym]() || this.dimension()) + tot + 4, 0) : 0),
             width => this.childDocs.length && (this.layoutDoc._width = width),
             { fireImmediately: true }
         );
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ export class CollectionLinearView extends CollectionSubView() {
         }
     };
 
-    dimension = () => NumCast(this.rootDoc._height); // 2 * the padding
+    dimension = () => NumCast(this.rootDoc._height);
     getTransform = (ele: Opt<HTMLDivElement>) => {
         if (!ele) return Transform.Identity();
         const { scale, translateX, translateY } = Utils.GetScreenTransform(ele);
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
index 967e10434..632abd6cf 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
@@ -1,23 +1,20 @@
 import React = require('react');
 import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
-import { action, computed, observable, ObservableMap, trace, untracked } from 'mobx';
+import { action, computed, observable, ObservableMap, untracked } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
-import { Doc, DocListCast, Field, StrListCast } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
+import { computedFn } from 'mobx-utils';
+import { Doc, Field, StrListCast } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Id } from '../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { List } from '../../../../fields/List';
-import { RichTextField } from '../../../../fields/RichTextField';
 import { listSpec } from '../../../../fields/Schema';
 import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../../fields/Types';
-import { ImageField } from '../../../../fields/URLField';
 import { emptyFunction, returnDefault, returnEmptyDoclist, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnNever, returnTrue, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScroll } from '../../../../Utils';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../../documents/Documents';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../../../util/DocumentManager';
 import { DragManager } from '../../../util/DragManager';
 import { SelectionManager } from '../../../util/SelectionManager';
-import { Transform } from '../../../util/Transform';
 import { undoBatch } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../../ContextMenu';
-import { ContextMenuProps } from '../../ContextMenuItem';
 import { EditableView } from '../../EditableView';
 import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
@@ -214,9 +211,7 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionSubView() {
     };
 
     @action
-    addNewKey = (key: string, defaultVal: any) => {
-        this.childDocs.forEach(doc => (doc[key] = defaultVal));
-    };
+    addNewKey = (key: string, defaultVal: any) => this.childDocs.forEach(doc => (doc[key] = defaultVal));
 
     @undoBatch
     @action
@@ -302,9 +297,7 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionSubView() {
     };
 
     @action
-    addRowRef = (doc: Doc, ref: HTMLDivElement) => {
-        this._rowEles.set(doc, ref);
-    };
+    addRowRef = (doc: Doc, ref: HTMLDivElement) => this._rowEles.set(doc, ref);
 
     @action
     setColRef = (index: number, ref: HTMLDivElement) => {
@@ -402,68 +395,12 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionSubView() {
 
     menuCallback = (x: number, y: number) => {
         ContextMenu.Instance.clearItems();
-        const layoutItems: ContextMenuProps[] = [];
-        const docItems: ContextMenuProps[] = [];
-        const dataDoc = this.props.DataDoc || this.props.Document;
-
-        DocUtils.addDocumentCreatorMenuItems(
-            doc => {
-                FormattedTextBox.SelectOnLoad = StrCast(doc[Id]);
-                return this.addRow(doc);
-            },
-            this.addRow,
-            x,
-            y,
-            true
-        );
 
-        Array.from(Object.keys(Doc.GetProto(dataDoc)))
-            .filter(fieldKey => dataDoc[fieldKey] instanceof RichTextField || dataDoc[fieldKey] instanceof ImageField || typeof dataDoc[fieldKey] === 'string')
-            .map(fieldKey =>
-                docItems.push({
-                    description: ':' + fieldKey,
-                    event: () => {
-                        const created = DocUtils.DocumentFromField(dataDoc, fieldKey, Doc.GetProto(this.props.Document));
-                        if (created) {
-                            if (this.props.Document.isTemplateDoc) {
-                                Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(created, this.props.Document);
-                            }
-                            return this.addRow(created);
-                        }
-                    },
-                    icon: 'compress-arrows-alt',
-                })
-            );
-        Array.from(Object.keys(Doc.GetProto(dataDoc)))
-            .filter(fieldKey => DocListCast(dataDoc[fieldKey]).length)
-            .map(fieldKey =>
-                docItems.push({
-                    description: ':' + fieldKey,
-                    event: () => {
-                        const created = Docs.Create.CarouselDocument([], { _width: 400, _height: 200, title: fieldKey });
-                        if (created) {
-                            const container = this.props.Document.resolvedDataDoc ? Doc.GetProto(this.props.Document) : this.props.Document;
-                            if (container.isTemplateDoc) {
-                                Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(created, container);
-                                return Doc.AddDocToList(container, Doc.LayoutFieldKey(container), created);
-                            }
-                            return this.addRow(created) || false;
-                        }
-                    },
-                    icon: 'compress-arrows-alt',
-                })
-            );
-        !Doc.noviceMode && ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Doc Fields ...', subitems: docItems, icon: 'eye' });
-        !Doc.noviceMode && ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Containers ...', subitems: layoutItems, icon: 'eye' });
+        DocUtils.addDocumentCreatorMenuItems(doc => this.addRow(doc), this.addRow, x, y, true);
+
         ContextMenu.Instance.setDefaultItem('::', (name: string): void => {
             Doc.GetProto(this.props.Document)[name] = '';
-            const created = Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { title: name, _autoHeight: true });
-            if (created) {
-                if (this.props.Document.isTemplateDoc) {
-                    Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(created, this.props.Document);
-                }
-                this.addRow(created);
-            }
+            this.addRow(Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { title: name, _autoHeight: true }));
         });
         ContextMenu.Instance.displayMenu(x, y, undefined, true);
     };
@@ -540,9 +477,7 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionSubView() {
     };
 
     @action
-    closeColumnMenu = () => {
-        this._columnMenuIndex = undefined;
-    };
+    closeColumnMenu = () => (this._columnMenuIndex = undefined);
 
     @action
     openFilterMenu = (index: number) => {
@@ -593,19 +528,14 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionSubView() {
     getFieldFilters = (field: string) => StrListCast(this.Document._docFilters).filter(filter => filter.split(':')[0] == field);
 
     removeFieldFilters = (field: string) => {
-        this.getFieldFilters(field).forEach(filter => {
-            Doc.setDocFilter(this.Document, field, filter.split(':')[1], 'remove');
-        });
+        this.getFieldFilters(field).forEach(filter => Doc.setDocFilter(this.Document, field, filter.split(':')[1], 'remove'));
     };
 
     onFilterKeyDown = (e: React.KeyboardEvent) => {
+        //prettier-ignore
         switch (e.key) {
-            case 'Enter':
-                this.closeFilterMenu(true);
-                break;
-            case 'Escape':
-                this.closeFilterMenu(false);
-                break;
+            case 'Enter' : this.closeFilterMenu(true); break;
+            case 'Escape': this.closeFilterMenu(false);break;
         }
     };
 
@@ -900,6 +830,7 @@ interface CollectionSchemaViewDocsProps {
 class CollectionSchemaViewDocs extends React.Component<CollectionSchemaViewDocsProps> {
     tableWidthFunc = () => this.props.schema.tableWidth;
     rowHeightFunc = () => CollectionSchemaView._rowHeight;
+    childScreenToLocal = computedFn((index: number) => () => this.props.schema.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate(0, -CollectionSchemaView._rowHeight - index * this.rowHeightFunc()));
     render() {
         return (
             <div className="schema-table-content">
@@ -929,7 +860,7 @@ class CollectionSchemaViewDocs extends React.Component<CollectionSchemaViewDocsP
                                 docRangeFilters={this.props.schema.childDocRangeFilters}
                                 searchFilterDocs={this.props.schema.searchFilterDocs}
                                 rootSelected={this.props.schema.rootSelected}
-                                ScreenToLocalTransform={Transform.Identity}
+                                ScreenToLocalTransform={this.childScreenToLocal(index)}
                                 bringToFront={emptyFunction}
                                 isDocumentActive={this.props.schema.props.childDocumentsActive?.() ? this.props.schema.props.isDocumentActive : this.props.schema.isContentActive}
                                 isContentActive={emptyFunction}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaColumnHeader.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaColumnHeader.tsx
index 43895fc9c..b133347cf 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaColumnHeader.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaColumnHeader.tsx
@@ -41,18 +41,12 @@ export class SchemaColumnHeader extends React.Component<SchemaColumnHeaderProps>
 
     @action
     onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
-        setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, e => this.props.dragColumn(e, this.props.columnIndex), emptyFunction, emptyFunction);
+        setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, e => this.props.dragColumn(e, this.props.columnIndex), emptyFunction, emptyFunction, false);
     };
 
     render() {
         return (
-            <div
-                className="schema-column-header"
-                style={{ width: this.props.columnWidths[this.props.columnIndex] }}
-                onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown}
-                ref={(col: HTMLDivElement | null) => {
-                    col && this.props.setColRef(this.props.columnIndex, col);
-                }}>
+            <div className="schema-column-header" style={{ width: this.props.columnWidths[this.props.columnIndex] }} onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown} ref={col => col && this.props.setColRef(this.props.columnIndex, col)}>
                 <div className="schema-column-resizer left" onPointerDown={e => this.props.resizeColumn(e, this.props.columnIndex)}></div>
                 <div className="schema-column-title">{this.fieldKey}</div>
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx
index 384975b45..a6acf882c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { Doc, DocListCast } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { ComputedField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { Cast, DateCast, NumCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { AudioField, nullAudio } from '../../../fields/URLField';
-import { emptyFunction, formatTime, OmitKeys, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, formatTime, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../Utils';
 import { DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { Networking } from '../../Network';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
 import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
 import './AudioBox.scss';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
-import { SelectionManager } from '../../util/SelectionManager';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
 
 /**
@@ -655,7 +654,8 @@ export class AudioBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         return (
             <CollectionStackedTimeline
                 ref={action((r: any) => (this._stackedTimeline = r))}
-                {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['CollectionFreeFormDocumentView']).omit}
+                {...this.props}
+                CollectionFreeFormDocumentView={undefined}
                 fieldKey={this.annotationKey}
                 dictationKey={this.fieldKey + '-dictation'}
                 mediaPath={this.path}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
index ecffe6c4f..ace388c57 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { action, observable } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import { Doc, Opt } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
-import { emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnFalse, returnNone, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, returnNone, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Docs } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../util/SnappingManager';
@@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ export class ComparisonBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
                         ref={r => {
                             //whichDoc !== targetDoc && r?.focus(whichDoc, { instant: true });
                         }}
-                        {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight']).omit}
+                        {...this.props}
+                        NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                        NativeHeight={returnZero}
                         isContentActive={returnFalse}
                         isDocumentActive={returnFalse}
                         styleProvider={this.docStyleProvider}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataViz.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DataViz.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index df4c8f937..000000000
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataViz.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
-import * as React from 'react';
-import { ViewBoxBaseComponent } from '../DocComponent';
-import './DataViz.scss';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
-
-@observer
-export class DataVizBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
-    public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
-        return FieldView.LayoutString(DataVizBox, fieldKey);
-    }
-
-    render() {
-        return (
-            <div>
-                <div>Hi</div>
-            </div>
-        );
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.scss b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.scss
index e69de29bb..cd500e9ae 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.scss
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+.dataviz {
+    overflow: auto;
+    height: 100%;
+}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx
index 592723ee9..eb25d3264 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx
@@ -1,90 +1,151 @@
-import { action, computed, observable } from "mobx";
-import { observer } from "mobx-react";
-import * as React from "react";
-import { StrCast } from "../../../../fields/Types";
-import { ViewBoxBaseComponent } from "../../DocComponent";
-import { FieldViewProps, FieldView } from "../FieldView";
-import "./DataVizBox.scss";
-import { HistogramBox } from "./HistogramBox";
-import { TableBox } from "./TableBox";
-
-enum DataVizView {
-    TABLE = "table",
-    HISTOGRAM= "histogram"
-}
+import { action, computed, observable, ObservableMap, ObservableSet } from 'mobx';
+import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
+import * as React from 'react';
+import { Doc, StrListCast } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
+import { List } from '../../../../fields/List';
+import { Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../../fields/Types';
+import { CsvField } from '../../../../fields/URLField';
+import { Docs } from '../../../documents/Documents';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent } from '../../DocComponent';
+import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
+import { PinProps } from '../trails';
+import { LineChart } from './components/LineChart';
+import { TableBox } from './components/TableBox';
+import './DataVizBox.scss';
 
+export enum DataVizView {
+    TABLE = 'table',
+    LINECHART = 'lineChart',
+}
 
 @observer
-export class DataVizBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
-    @observable private pairs: {x: number, y:number}[] = [{x: 1, y:2}];
-
-    // TODO: nda - make this use enum values instead
-    // @observable private currView: DataVizView = DataVizView.TABLE;
-    @computed get currView() {
-        if (this.rootDoc._dataVizView) {
-            return StrCast(this.rootDoc._dataVizView);
-        } else {
-            return "table";
-        }
+export class DataVizBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
+    public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
+        return FieldView.LayoutString(DataVizBox, fieldKey);
     }
-
-    constructor(props: any) {
-        super(props);
-        if (!this.rootDoc._dataVizView) {
-            // TODO: nda - this might not always want to default to "table"
-            this.rootDoc._dataVizView = "table";
-        }
+    // says we have an object and any string
+    // 2 ways of doing it
+    // @observable private pairs: { [key: string]: number | string | undefined }[] = [];
+    // @observable private pairs: { [key: string]: FieldResult }[] = [];
+    static pairSet = new ObservableMap<string, { [key: string]: string }[]>();
+    @computed.struct get pairs() {
+        return DataVizBox.pairSet.get(StrCast(this.rootDoc.fileUpload));
     }
+    private _chartRenderer: LineChart | undefined;
+    // // another way would be store a schema that defines the type of data we are expecting from an imported doc
+
+    // method1() {
+    //     this.pairs[0].x = 3;
+    // }
+
+    // method() {
+    //     // this.pairs[0].x = 3;
+    //     // go through the pairs
+    //     const x = this.pairs[0].x;
+    //     if (typeof x == 'number') {
+    //         let x1 = Number(x);
+    //         // let x1 = NumCast(x);
+    //     }
+    // }
+
+    // could use field result
+    // [key: string]: FieldResult;
+    // instead of numeric x,y in there,
+
+    // TODO: nda - use onmousedown and onmouseup when dragging and changing height and width to update the height and width props only when dragging stops
 
-    public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {  return FieldView.LayoutString(DataVizBox, fieldKey);  }
+    @computed get dataVizView(): DataVizView {
+        return StrCast(this.layoutDoc._dataVizView, 'table') as DataVizView;
+    }
 
     @action
-    private createPairs() {
-        const xVals: number[] = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
-        // const yVals: number[] = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60];
-        const yVals: number[] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
-        let pairs: {
-            x: number,
-            y:number
-        }[] = [];
-        if (xVals.length != yVals.length) return pairs;
-        for (let i = 0; i < xVals.length; i++) {
-            pairs.push({x: xVals[i], y: yVals[i]});
+    restoreView = (data: Doc) => {
+        const changedView = this.dataVizView !== data.presDataVizView && (this.layoutDoc._dataVizView = data.presDataVizView);
+        const changedAxes = this.axes.join('') !== StrListCast(data.presDataVizAxes).join('') && (this.layoutDoc._dataVizAxes = new List<string>(StrListCast(data.presDataVizAxes)));
+        const func = () => this._chartRenderer?.restoreView(data);
+        if (changedView || changedAxes) {
+            setTimeout(func, 100);
+            return true;
         }
-        this.pairs = pairs;
-        return pairs;
+        return func() ?? false;
+    };
+
+    getAnchor = (addAsAnnotation?: boolean, pinProps?: PinProps) => {
+        const anchor =
+            this._chartRenderer?.getAnchor(pinProps) ??
+            Docs.Create.TextanchorDocument({
+                unrendered: true,
+                // when we clear selection -> we should have it so chartBox getAnchor returns undefined
+                // this is for when we want the whole doc (so when the chartBox getAnchor returns without a marker)
+                /*put in some options*/
+            });
+
+        anchor.presDataVizView = this.dataVizView;
+        anchor.presDataVizAxes = this.axes.length ? new List<string>(this.axes) : undefined;
+
+        this.addDocument(anchor);
+        return anchor;
+    };
+
+    @computed.struct get axes() {
+        return StrListCast(this.layoutDoc.dataVizAxes);
     }
+    selectAxes = (axes: string[]) => (this.layoutDoc.dataVizAxes = new List<string>(axes));
 
     @computed get selectView() {
-        switch(this.currView) {
-            case "table":
-                return (<TableBox pairs={this.pairs} />)
-            case "histogram":
-                return (<HistogramBox rootDoc={this.rootDoc} pairs={this.pairs}/>)                
+        const width = this.props.PanelWidth() * 0.9;
+        const height = (this.props.PanelHeight() - 32) /* height of 'change view' button */ * 0.9;
+        const margin = { top: 10, right: 25, bottom: 50, left:25};
+        if (!this.pairs) return 'no data';
+        // prettier-ignore
+        switch (this.dataVizView) {
+            case DataVizView.TABLE:     return <TableBox pairs={this.pairs} axes={this.axes} docView={this.props.DocumentView} selectAxes={this.selectAxes}/>;
+            case DataVizView.LINECHART: return <LineChart ref={r => (this._chartRenderer = r ?? undefined)} height={height} width={width} fieldKey={this.fieldKey} margin={margin} rootDoc={this.rootDoc} axes={this.axes} pairs={this.pairs} dataDoc={this.dataDoc} />;
         }
     }
-
-    @computed get pairVals() {
-        return this.createPairs();
+    @computed get dataUrl() {
+        return Cast(this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey], CsvField);
     }
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this.createPairs();
+        this.props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this.fetchData();
+    }
+
+    fetchData() {
+        if (DataVizBox.pairSet.has(StrCast(this.rootDoc.fileUpload))) return;
+        DataVizBox.pairSet.set(StrCast(this.rootDoc.fileUpload), []);
+        fetch('/csvData?uri=' + this.dataUrl?.url.href) //
+            .then(res => res.json().then(action(res => !res.errno && DataVizBox.pairSet.set(StrCast(this.rootDoc.fileUpload), res))));
     }
 
     // handle changing the view using a button
     @action changeViewHandler(e: React.MouseEvent<HTMLButtonElement>) {
         e.preventDefault();
         e.stopPropagation();
-        this.rootDoc._dataVizView = this.currView == "table" ? "histogram" : "table";
+        this.layoutDoc._dataVizView = this.dataVizView === DataVizView.TABLE ? DataVizView.LINECHART : DataVizView.TABLE;
     }
 
     render() {
-        return (
-            <div className="dataViz">
-                <button onClick={(e) => this.changeViewHandler(e)}>Change View</button>
+        return !this.pairs?.length ? (
+            <div>Loading...</div>
+        ) : (
+            <div
+                className="dataViz"
+                onWheel={e => e.stopPropagation()}
+                ref={r =>
+                    r?.addEventListener(
+                        'wheel', // if scrollTop is 0, then don't let wheel trigger scroll on any container (which it would since onScroll won't be triggered on this)
+                        (e: WheelEvent) => {
+                            if (!r.scrollTop && e.deltaY <= 0) e.preventDefault();
+                            e.stopPropagation();
+                        },
+                        { passive: false }
+                    )
+                }>
+                <button onClick={e => this.changeViewHandler(e)}>{this.dataVizView === DataVizView.TABLE ? DataVizView.LINECHART : DataVizView.TABLE}</button>
                 {this.selectView}
             </div>
         );
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DrawHelper.ts b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DrawHelper.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 595cecebf..000000000
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DrawHelper.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,247 +0,0 @@
-export class PIXIPoint {
-    public get x() { return this.coords[0]; }
-    public get y() { return this.coords[1]; }
-    public set x(value: number) { this.coords[0] = value; }
-    public set y(value: number) { this.coords[1] = value; }
-    public coords: number[] = [0, 0];
-    constructor(x: number, y: number) {
-        this.coords[0] = x;
-        this.coords[1] = y;
-    }
-}
-
-export class PIXIRectangle {
-    public x: number;
-    public y: number;
-    public width: number;
-    public height: number;
-    public get left() { return this.x; }
-    public get right() { return this.x + this.width; }
-    public get top() { return this.y; }
-    public get bottom() { return this.top + this.height; }
-    public static get EMPTY() { return new PIXIRectangle(0, 0, -1, -1); }
-    constructor(x: number, y: number, width: number, height: number) {
-        this.x = x;
-        this.y = y;
-        this.width = width;
-        this.height = height;
-    }
-}
-
-export class MathUtil {
-
-    public static EPSILON: number = 0.001;
-
-    public static Sign(value: number): number {
-        return value >= 0 ? 1 : -1;
-    }
-
-    public static AddPoint(p1: PIXIPoint, p2: PIXIPoint, inline: boolean = false): PIXIPoint {
-        if (inline) {
-            p1.x += p2.x;
-            p1.y += p2.y;
-            return p1;
-        }
-        else {
-            return new PIXIPoint(p1.x + p2.x, p1.y + p2.y);
-        }
-    }
-
-    public static Perp(p1: PIXIPoint): PIXIPoint {
-        return new PIXIPoint(-p1.y, p1.x);
-    }
-
-    public static DividePoint(p1: PIXIPoint, by: number, inline: boolean = false): PIXIPoint {
-        if (inline) {
-            p1.x /= by;
-            p1.y /= by;
-            return p1;
-        }
-        else {
-            return new PIXIPoint(p1.x / by, p1.y / by);
-        }
-    }
-
-    public static MultiplyConstant(p1: PIXIPoint, by: number, inline: boolean = false) {
-        if (inline) {
-            p1.x *= by;
-            p1.y *= by;
-            return p1;
-        }
-        else {
-            return new PIXIPoint(p1.x * by, p1.y * by);
-        }
-    }
-
-    public static SubtractPoint(p1: PIXIPoint, p2: PIXIPoint, inline: boolean = false): PIXIPoint {
-        if (inline) {
-            p1.x -= p2.x;
-            p1.y -= p2.y;
-            return p1;
-        }
-        else {
-            return new PIXIPoint(p1.x - p2.x, p1.y - p2.y);
-        }
-    }
-
-    public static Area(rect: PIXIRectangle): number {
-        return rect.width * rect.height;
-    }
-
-    public static DistToLineSegment(v: PIXIPoint, w: PIXIPoint, p: PIXIPoint) {
-        // Return minimum distance between line segment vw and point p
-        var l2 = MathUtil.DistSquared(v, w);  // i.e. |w-v|^2 -  avoid a sqrt
-        if (l2 === 0.0) return MathUtil.Dist(p, v);   // v === w case
-        // Consider the line extending the segment, parameterized as v + t (w - v).
-        // We find projection of point p onto the line. 
-        // It falls where t = [(p-v) . (w-v)] / |w-v|^2
-        // We clamp t from [0,1] to handle points outside the segment vw.
-        var dot = MathUtil.Dot(
-            MathUtil.SubtractPoint(p, v),
-            MathUtil.SubtractPoint(w, v)) / l2;
-        var t = Math.max(0, Math.min(1, dot));
-        // Projection falls on the segment
-        var projection = MathUtil.AddPoint(v,
-            MathUtil.MultiplyConstant(
-                MathUtil.SubtractPoint(w, v), t));
-        return MathUtil.Dist(p, projection);
-    }
-
-    public static LineSegmentIntersection(ps1: PIXIPoint, pe1: PIXIPoint, ps2: PIXIPoint, pe2: PIXIPoint): PIXIPoint | undefined {
-        var a1 = pe1.y - ps1.y;
-        var b1 = ps1.x - pe1.x;
-
-        var a2 = pe2.y - ps2.y;
-        var b2 = ps2.x - pe2.x;
-
-        var delta = a1 * b2 - a2 * b1;
-        if (delta === 0) {
-            return undefined;
-        }
-        var c2 = a2 * ps2.x + b2 * ps2.y;
-        var c1 = a1 * ps1.x + b1 * ps1.y;
-        var invdelta = 1 / delta;
-        return new PIXIPoint((b2 * c1 - b1 * c2) * invdelta, (a1 * c2 - a2 * c1) * invdelta);
-    }
-
-    public static PointInPIXIRectangle(p: PIXIPoint, rect: PIXIRectangle): boolean {
-        if (p.x < rect.left - this.EPSILON) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        if (p.x > rect.right + this.EPSILON) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        if (p.y < rect.top - this.EPSILON) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        if (p.y > rect.bottom + this.EPSILON) {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        return true;
-    }
-
-    public static LinePIXIRectangleIntersection(lineFrom: PIXIPoint, lineTo: PIXIPoint, rect: PIXIRectangle): Array<PIXIPoint> {
-        var r1 = new PIXIPoint(rect.left, rect.top);
-        var r2 = new PIXIPoint(rect.right, rect.top);
-        var r3 = new PIXIPoint(rect.right, rect.bottom);
-        var r4 = new PIXIPoint(rect.left, rect.bottom);
-        var ret = new Array<PIXIPoint>();
-        var dist = this.Dist(lineFrom, lineTo);
-        var inter = this.LineSegmentIntersection(lineFrom, lineTo, r1, r2);
-        if (inter && this.PointInPIXIRectangle(inter, rect) &&
-            this.Dist(inter, lineFrom) < dist && this.Dist(inter, lineTo) < dist) {
-            ret.push(inter);
-        }
-        inter = this.LineSegmentIntersection(lineFrom, lineTo, r2, r3);
-        if (inter && this.PointInPIXIRectangle(inter, rect) &&
-            this.Dist(inter, lineFrom) < dist && this.Dist(inter, lineTo) < dist) {
-            ret.push(inter);
-        }
-        inter = this.LineSegmentIntersection(lineFrom, lineTo, r3, r4);
-        if (inter && this.PointInPIXIRectangle(inter, rect) &&
-            this.Dist(inter, lineFrom) < dist && this.Dist(inter, lineTo) < dist) {
-            ret.push(inter);
-        }
-        inter = this.LineSegmentIntersection(lineFrom, lineTo, r4, r1);
-        if (inter && this.PointInPIXIRectangle(inter, rect) &&
-            this.Dist(inter, lineFrom) < dist && this.Dist(inter, lineTo) < dist) {
-            ret.push(inter);
-        }
-        return ret;
-    }
-
-    public static Intersection(rect1: PIXIRectangle, rect2: PIXIRectangle): PIXIRectangle {
-        const left = Math.max(rect1.x, rect2.x);
-        const right = Math.min(rect1.x + rect1.width, rect2.x + rect2.width);
-        const top = Math.max(rect1.y, rect2.y);
-        const bottom = Math.min(rect1.y + rect1.height, rect2.y + rect2.height);
-        return new PIXIRectangle(left, top, right - left, bottom - top);
-    }
-
-    public static Dist(p1: PIXIPoint, p2: PIXIPoint): number {
-        return Math.sqrt(MathUtil.DistSquared(p1, p2));
-    }
-
-    public static Dot(p1: PIXIPoint, p2: PIXIPoint): number {
-        return p1.x * p2.x + p1.y * p2.y;
-    }
-
-    public static Normalize(p1: PIXIPoint) {
-        var d = this.Length(p1);
-        return new PIXIPoint(p1.x / d, p1.y / d);
-    }
-
-    public static Length(p1: PIXIPoint): number {
-        return Math.sqrt(p1.x * p1.x + p1.y * p1.y);
-    }
-
-    public static DistSquared(p1: PIXIPoint, p2: PIXIPoint): number {
-        const a = p1.x - p2.x;
-        const b = p1.y - p2.y;
-        return (a * a + b * b);
-    }
-
-    public static RectIntersectsRect(r1: PIXIRectangle, r2: PIXIRectangle): boolean {
-        return !(r2.x > r1.x + r1.width ||
-            r2.x + r2.width < r1.x ||
-            r2.y > r1.y + r1.height ||
-            r2.y + r2.height < r1.y);
-    }
-
-    public static ArgMin(temp: number[]): number {
-        let index = 0;
-        let value = temp[0];
-        for (let i = 1; i < temp.length; i++) {
-            if (temp[i] < value) {
-                value = temp[i];
-                index = i;
-            }
-        }
-        return index;
-    }
-
-    public static ArgMax(temp: number[]): number {
-        let index = 0;
-        let value = temp[0];
-        for (let i = 1; i < temp.length; i++) {
-            if (temp[i] > value) {
-                value = temp[i];
-                index = i;
-            }
-        }
-        return index;
-    }
-
-    public static Combinations<T>(chars: T[]) {
-        let result = new Array<T>();
-        let f = (prefix: any, chars: any) => {
-            for (let i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
-                result.push(prefix.concat(chars[i]));
-                f(prefix.concat(chars[i]), chars.slice(i + 1));
-            }
-        };
-        f([], chars);
-        return result;
-    }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/HistogramBox.scss b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/HistogramBox.scss
deleted file mode 100644
index 5aac9dc77..000000000
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/HistogramBox.scss
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-// change the stroke color of line-svg class
-.svgLine {
-    position: absolute;
-    background: darkGray;
-    stroke: #000;
-    stroke-width: 1px;
-    width:100%;
-    height:100%;
-    opacity: 0.4;
-}
-
-.svgContainer {
-    position: absolute;
-    top:0;
-    left:0;
-    width:100%;
-    height: 100%;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/HistogramBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/HistogramBox.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 00dc2ef46..000000000
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/HistogramBox.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,159 +0,0 @@
-import { action, computed, observable } from "mobx";
-import { observer } from "mobx-react";
-import * as React from "react";
-import { Doc } from "../../../../fields/Doc";
-import { NumCast } from "../../../../fields/Types";
-import "./HistogramBox.scss";
-
-interface HistogramBoxProps {
-    rootDoc: Doc;
-    pairs: {
-        x: number,
-        y: number
-    }[]
-}
-
-
-export class HistogramBox extends React.Component<HistogramBoxProps> {
-
-    private origin = {x: 0.1 * this.width, y: 0.9 * this.height};
-
-    @computed get width() {
-        return NumCast(this.props.rootDoc.width);
-    }
-
-    @computed get height() {
-        return NumCast(this.props.rootDoc.height);
-    }
-
-    @computed get x() {
-        return NumCast(this.props.rootDoc.x);
-    }
-
-    @computed get y() {
-        return NumCast(this.props.rootDoc.y);
-    }
-
-    @computed get generatePoints() {
-        // evenly distribute points along the x axis
-        const xVals: number[] = this.props.pairs.map(p => p.x);
-        const yVals: number[] = this.props.pairs.map(p => p.y);
-
-        const xMin = Math.min(...xVals);
-        const xMax = Math.max(...xVals);
-        const yMin = Math.min(...yVals);
-        const yMax = Math.max(...yVals);
-
-        const xRange = xMax - xMin;
-        const yRange = yMax - yMin;
-
-        const xScale = this.width / xRange;
-        const yScale = this.height / yRange;
-
-        const xOffset = (this.x + (0.1 * this.width)) - xMin * xScale;
-        const yOffset = (this.y + (0.25 * this.height)) - yMin * yScale;
-
-        const points: {
-            x: number,
-            y: number
-        }[] = this.props.pairs.map(p => {
-            return {
-                x: (p.x * xScale + xOffset) + this.origin.x,
-                y: (p.y * yScale + yOffset)
-            }
-        });
-
-        return points;
-    }
-
-    @computed get generateGraphLine() {
-        const points = this.generatePoints;
-        // loop through points and create a line from each point to the next
-        let lines: {
-            x1: number,
-            y1: number,
-            x2: number,
-            y2: number
-        }[] = [];
-        for (let i = 0; i < points.length - 1; i++) {
-            lines.push({
-                x1: points[i].x,
-                y1: points[i].y,
-                x2: points[i + 1].x,
-                y2: points[i + 1].y
-            });
-        }
-        // generate array of svg with lines
-        let svgLines: JSX.Element[] = [];
-        for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
-            svgLines.push(
-                <line
-                    className="svgLine"
-                    key={i}
-                    x1={lines[i].x1}
-                    y1={lines[i].y1}
-                    x2={lines[i].x2}
-                    y2={lines[i].y2}
-                    stroke="black"
-                    strokeWidth={2}
-                />
-            );
-        }
-
-        let res = [];
-        for (let i = 0; i < svgLines.length; i++) {
-            res.push(<svg className="svgContainer">{svgLines[i]}</svg>)
-        }
-        return res;
-    }
-
-    @computed get generateAxes() {       
-
-        const xAxis = {
-            x1: 0.1 * this.width,
-            x2: 0.9 * this.width,
-            y1: 0.9 * this.height,
-            y2: 0.9 * this.height,
-        };
-
-        const yAxis = {
-            x1: 0.1 * this.width,
-            x2: 0.1 * this.width,
-            y1: 0.25 * this.height,
-            y2: 0.9 * this.height,
-        };
-
-
-        return (
-            [
-                (<svg className="svgContainer">
-                    {/* <line className="svgLine" x1={yAxis} y1={xAxis} x2={this.width - (0.1 * this.width)} y2={xAxis} /> */}
-                    <line className="svgLine" x1={xAxis.x1} y1={xAxis.y1} x2={xAxis.x2} y2={xAxis.y2}/>
-
-                    {/* <line className="svgLine" x1={yAxis} y1={xAxis} x2={yAxis} y2={this.y + 50} /> */}
-                </svg>),
-                (
-                <svg className="svgContainer">
-                    <line className="svgLine" x1={yAxis.x1} y1={yAxis.y1} x2={yAxis.x2} y2={yAxis.y2} />
-                {/* <line className="svgLine" x1={yAxis} y1={xAxis} x2={yAxis} y2={this.y + 50} /> */}
-                </svg>)
-            ]
-        )
-    }
-
-
-    render() {
-        return (
-            <div>histogram box
-                {/* <svg className="svgContainer">
-                    {this.generateSVGLine}
-                </svg> */}
-                {this.generateAxes[0]}
-                {this.generateAxes[1]}
-                {this.generateGraphLine.map(line => line)}
-            </div>
-        )
-            
-    }
-
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/TableBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/TableBox.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index dfa8262d8..000000000
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/TableBox.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-import { action, computed, observable } from "mobx";
-import { observer } from "mobx-react";
-import * as React from "react";
-
-interface TableBoxProps {
-    pairs: {x: number, y:number}[]
-}
-
-
-export class TableBox extends React.Component<TableBoxProps> {
-
-
-
-    render() {
-        return (
-            <div className="table-container">
-                <table className="table">
-                    <thead>
-                        <tr className="table-row">
-                            <th>x</th>
-                            <th>y</th>
-                        </tr>
-                    </thead>
-                    <tbody>
-                    {this.props.pairs.map(p => {
-                        return (<tr className="table-row">
-                            <td>{p.x}</td>
-                            <td>{p.y}</td>
-                        </tr>)
-                    })}
-                    </tbody>
-                </table>
-            </div>
-        )
-    }
-
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/Chart.scss b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/Chart.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f1d09d2e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/Chart.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+.tooltip {
+    // make the height width bigger
+    width: fit-content;
+    height: fit-content;
+}
+
+.hoverHighlight-selected,
+.selected {
+    // change the color of the circle element to be red
+    fill: transparent;
+    outline: red solid 2px;
+    border-radius: 100%;
+    position: absolute;
+    transform-box: fill-box;
+    transform-origin: center;
+}
+.hoverHighlight {
+    fill: transparent;
+    outline: black solid 1px;
+    border-radius: 100%;
+}
+.hoverHighlight-selected {
+    fill: transparent;
+    scale: 1;
+    outline: black solid 1px;
+    border-radius: 100%;
+}
+.datapoint {
+    fill: black;
+}
+.brushed {
+    // change the color of the circle element to be red
+    fill: red;
+}
+.chart-container {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    align-items: center;
+    cursor: default;
+}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/LineChart.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/LineChart.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..777bf2f66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/LineChart.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,319 @@
+import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, observable, reaction } from 'mobx';
+import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
+import * as React from 'react';
+// import d3
+import * as d3 from 'd3';
+import { Doc, DocListCast } from '../../../../../fields/Doc';
+import { Id } from '../../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
+import { List } from '../../../../../fields/List';
+import { listSpec } from '../../../../../fields/Schema';
+import { Cast, DocCast } from '../../../../../fields/Types';
+import { Docs } from '../../../../documents/Documents';
+import { DocumentManager } from '../../../../util/DocumentManager';
+import { LinkManager } from '../../../../util/LinkManager';
+import { PinProps, PresBox } from '../../trails';
+import { DataVizBox } from '../DataVizBox';
+import { createLineGenerator, drawLine, minMaxRange, scaleCreatorNumerical, xAxisCreator, xGrid, yAxisCreator, yGrid } from '../utils/D3Utils';
+import './Chart.scss';
+
+export interface DataPoint {
+    x: number;
+    y: number;
+}
+interface SelectedDataPoint extends DataPoint {
+    elem?: d3.Selection<d3.BaseType, unknown, SVGGElement, unknown>;
+}
+export interface LineChartProps {
+    rootDoc: Doc;
+    axes: string[];
+    pairs: { [key: string]: any }[];
+    width: number;
+    height: number;
+    dataDoc: Doc;
+    fieldKey: string;
+    margin: {
+        top: number;
+        right: number;
+        bottom: number;
+        left: number;
+    };
+}
+
+@observer
+export class LineChart extends React.Component<LineChartProps> {
+    private _disposers: { [key: string]: IReactionDisposer } = {};
+    private _lineChartRef: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement> = React.createRef();
+    private _lineChartSvg: d3.Selection<SVGGElement, unknown, null, undefined> | undefined;
+    @observable _currSelected: SelectedDataPoint | undefined = undefined;
+    // TODO: nda - some sort of mapping that keeps track of the annotated points so we can easily remove when annotations list updates
+
+    @computed get _lineChartData() {
+        if (this.props.axes.length <= 1) return [];
+        return this.props.pairs
+            ?.filter(pair => (!this.incomingLinks.length ? true : Array.from(Object.keys(pair)).some(key => pair[key] && key.startsWith('select'))))
+            .map(pair => ({ x: Number(pair[this.props.axes[0]]), y: Number(pair[this.props.axes[1]]) }))
+            .sort((a, b) => (a.x < b.x ? -1 : 1));
+    }
+    @computed get incomingLinks() {
+        return LinkManager.Instance.getAllRelatedLinks(this.props.rootDoc) // out of all links
+            .filter(link => link.anchor1 !== this.props.rootDoc) // get links where this chart doc is the target of the link
+            .map(link => DocCast(link.anchor1)); // then return the source of the link
+    }
+    @computed get incomingSelected() {
+        return this.incomingLinks // all links that are pointing to this node
+            .map(anchor => DocumentManager.Instance.getFirstDocumentView(anchor)?.ComponentView as DataVizBox) // get their data viz boxes
+            .filter(dvb => dvb)
+            .map(dvb => dvb.pairs?.filter(pair => pair['select' + dvb.rootDoc[Id]])) // get all the datapoints they have selected field set by incoming anchor
+            .lastElement();
+    }
+    @computed get rangeVals(): { xMin?: number; xMax?: number; yMin?: number; yMax?: number } {
+        return minMaxRange([this._lineChartData]);
+    }
+    componentWillUnmount() {
+        Array.from(Object.keys(this._disposers)).forEach(key => this._disposers[key]());
+    }
+    componentDidMount = () => {
+        this._disposers.chartData = reaction(
+            () => ({ dataSet: this._lineChartData, w: this.width, h: this.height }),
+            ({ dataSet, w, h }) => {
+                if (dataSet) {
+                    this.drawChart([dataSet], this.rangeVals, w, h);
+                    // redraw annotations when the chart data has changed, or the local or inherited selection has changed
+                    this.clearAnnotations();
+                    this._currSelected && this.drawAnnotations(Number(this._currSelected.x), Number(this._currSelected.y), true);
+                    this.incomingSelected?.forEach((pair: any) => this.drawAnnotations(Number(pair[this.props.axes[0]]), Number(pair[this.props.axes[1]])));
+                }
+            },
+            { fireImmediately: true }
+        );
+        this._disposers.annos = reaction(
+            () => DocListCast(this.props.dataDoc[this.props.fieldKey + '-annotations']),
+            annotations => {
+                // modify how d3 renders so that anything in this annotations list would be potentially highlighted in some way
+                // could be blue colored to make it look like anchor
+                // this.drawAnnotations()
+                // loop through annotations and draw them
+                annotations.forEach(a => this.drawAnnotations(Number(a.x), Number(a.y)));
+                // this.drawAnnotations(annotations.x, annotations.y);
+            },
+            { fireImmediately: true }
+        );
+        this._disposers.highlights = reaction(
+            () => ({
+                selected: this._currSelected,
+                incomingSelected: this.incomingSelected,
+            }),
+            ({ selected, incomingSelected }) => {
+                // redraw annotations when the chart data has changed, or the local or inherited selection has changed
+                this.clearAnnotations();
+                selected && this.drawAnnotations(Number(selected.x), Number(selected.y), true);
+                incomingSelected?.forEach((pair: any) => this.drawAnnotations(Number(pair[this.props.axes[0]]), Number(pair[this.props.axes[1]])));
+            },
+            { fireImmediately: true }
+        );
+    };
+
+    // anything that doesn't need to be recalculated should just be stored as drawCharts (i.e. computed values) and drawChart is gonna iterate over these observables and generate svgs based on that
+
+    clearAnnotations = () => {
+        const elements = document.querySelectorAll('.datapoint');
+        for (let i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
+            const element = elements[i];
+            element.classList.remove('brushed');
+            element.classList.remove('selected');
+        }
+    };
+    // gets called whenever the "data-annotations" fields gets updated
+    drawAnnotations = (dataX: number, dataY: number, selected?: boolean) => {
+        // TODO: nda - can optimize this by having some sort of mapping of the x and y values to the individual circle elements
+        // loop through all html elements with class .circle-d1 and find the one that has "data-x" and "data-y" attributes that match the dataX and dataY
+        // if it exists, then highlight it
+        // if it doesn't exist, then remove the highlight
+        const elements = document.querySelectorAll('.datapoint');
+        for (let i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
+            const element = elements[i];
+            const x = element.getAttribute('data-x');
+            const y = element.getAttribute('data-y');
+            if (x === dataX.toString() && y === dataY.toString()) {
+                element.classList.add(selected ? 'selected' : 'brushed');
+            }
+            // TODO: nda - this remove highlight code should go where we remove the links
+            // } else {
+            // }
+        }
+    };
+
+    removeAnnotations(dataX: number, dataY: number) {
+        // loop through and remove any annotations that no longer exist
+    }
+
+    @action
+    restoreView = (data: Doc) => {
+        const coords = Cast(data.presDataVizSelection, listSpec('number'), null);
+        if (coords?.length > 1 && (this._currSelected?.x !== coords[0] || this._currSelected?.y !== coords[1])) {
+            this.setCurrSelected(coords[0], coords[1]);
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (this._currSelected) {
+            this.setCurrSelected();
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    };
+
+    // create a document anchor that stores whatever is needed to reconstruct the viewing state (selection,zoom,etc)
+    getAnchor = (pinProps?: PinProps) => {
+        const anchor = Docs.Create.TextanchorDocument({ title: 'line doc selection' + this._currSelected?.x, unrendered: true });
+        PresBox.pinDocView(anchor, { pinDocLayout: pinProps?.pinDocLayout, pinData: pinProps?.pinData }, this.props.dataDoc);
+        anchor.presDataVizSelection = this._currSelected ? new List<number>([this._currSelected.x, this._currSelected.y]) : undefined;
+        return anchor;
+    };
+
+    @computed get height() {
+        return this.props.height - this.props.margin.top - this.props.margin.bottom;
+    }
+
+    @computed get width() {
+        return this.props.width - this.props.margin.left - this.props.margin.right;
+    }
+
+    setupTooltip() {
+        return d3
+            .select(this._lineChartRef.current)
+            .append('div')
+            .attr('class', 'tooltip')
+            .style('opacity', 0)
+            .style('background', '#fff')
+            .style('border', '1px solid #ccc')
+            .style('padding', '5px')
+            .style('position', 'absolute')
+            .style('font-size', '12px');
+    }
+
+    // TODO: nda - use this everyewhere we update currSelected?
+    @action
+    setCurrSelected(x?: number, y?: number) {
+        // TODO: nda - get rid of svg element in the list?
+        this._currSelected = x !== undefined && y !== undefined ? { x, y } : undefined;
+        this.props.pairs.forEach(pair => pair[this.props.axes[0]] === x && pair[this.props.axes[1]] === y && (pair.selected = true));
+        this.props.pairs.forEach(pair => (pair.selected = pair[this.props.axes[0]] === x && pair[this.props.axes[1]] === y ? true : undefined));
+    }
+
+    drawDataPoints(data: DataPoint[], idx: number, xScale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>, yScale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>) {
+        if (this._lineChartSvg) {
+            const circleClass = '.circle-' + idx;
+            this._lineChartSvg
+                .selectAll(circleClass)
+                .data(data)
+                .join('circle') // enter append
+                .attr('class', `${circleClass} datapoint`)
+                .attr('r', '3') // radius
+                .attr('cx', d => xScale(d.x))
+                .attr('cy', d => yScale(d.y))
+                .attr('data-x', d => d.x)
+                .attr('data-y', d => d.y);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // TODO: nda - can use d3.create() to create html element instead of appending
+    drawChart = (dataSet: DataPoint[][], rangeVals: { xMin?: number; xMax?: number; yMin?: number; yMax?: number }, width: number, height: number) => {
+        // clearing tooltip and the current chart
+        d3.select(this._lineChartRef.current).select('svg').remove();
+        d3.select(this._lineChartRef.current).select('.tooltip').remove();
+
+        const { xMin, xMax, yMin, yMax } = rangeVals;
+        if (xMin === undefined || xMax === undefined || yMin === undefined || yMax === undefined) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // creating the x and y scales
+        const xScale = scaleCreatorNumerical(xMin, xMax, 0, width);
+        const yScale = scaleCreatorNumerical(0, yMax,height, 0);
+
+        // adding svg
+        const margin = this.props.margin;
+        const svg = (this._lineChartSvg = d3
+            .select(this._lineChartRef.current)
+            .append('svg')
+            .attr('width', `${width +margin.left + margin.right}`)
+            .attr('height', `${height + margin.top + margin.bottom }`)
+            .append('g')
+            .attr('transform', `translate(${margin.left}, ${margin.top})`));
+
+        // create x and y grids
+        xGrid(svg.append('g'), height, xScale);
+        yGrid(svg.append('g'), width, yScale);
+        xAxisCreator(svg.append('g'), height, xScale);
+        yAxisCreator(svg.append('g'), width, yScale);
+
+        // draw the plot line
+        const data = dataSet[0];
+        const lineGen = createLineGenerator(xScale, yScale);
+        drawLine(svg.append('path'), data, lineGen);
+
+        // draw the datapoint circle
+        this.drawDataPoints(data, 0, xScale, yScale);
+
+        const higlightFocusPt = svg.append('g').style('display', 'none');
+        higlightFocusPt.append('circle').attr('r', 5).attr('class', 'circle');
+        const tooltip = this.setupTooltip();
+        // add all the tooltipContent to the tooltip
+        const mousemove = action((e: any) => {
+            const bisect = d3.bisector((d: DataPoint) => d.x).left;
+            const xPos = d3.pointer(e)[0];
+            const x0 = Math.min(data.length - 1, bisect(data, xScale.invert(xPos - 5))); // shift x by -5 so that you can reach points on the left-side axis
+            const d0 = data[x0];
+            if (!d0) return;
+
+            this.updateTooltip(higlightFocusPt, xScale, d0, yScale, tooltip);
+        });
+
+        const onPointClick = action((e: any) => {
+            const bisect = d3.bisector((d: DataPoint) => d.x).left;
+            const xPos = d3.pointer(e)[0];
+            const x0 = bisect(data, xScale.invert(xPos - 5)); // shift x by -5 so that you can reach points on the left-side axis
+            const d0 = data[x0];
+            // find .circle-d1 with data-x = d0.x and data-y = d0.y
+            const selected = svg.selectAll('.datapoint').filter((d: any) => d['data-x'] === d0.x && d['data-y'] === d0.y);
+            this.setCurrSelected(d0.x, d0.y);
+            this.updateTooltip(higlightFocusPt, xScale, d0, yScale, tooltip);
+        });
+
+        svg.append('rect')
+            .attr('class', 'overlay')
+            .attr('width', width)
+            .attr('height', this.height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
+            .attr('fill', 'none')
+            .attr('translate', `translate(${margin.left}, ${-(margin.top + margin.bottom)})`)
+            .style('opacity', 0)
+            .on('mouseover', () => higlightFocusPt.style('display', null))
+            .on('mouseout', () => tooltip.transition().duration(300).style('opacity', 0))
+            .on('mousemove', mousemove)
+            .on('click', onPointClick);
+    };
+
+    private updateTooltip(
+        higlightFocusPt: d3.Selection<SVGGElement, unknown, null, undefined>,
+        xScale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>,
+        d0: DataPoint,
+        yScale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>,
+        tooltip: d3.Selection<HTMLDivElement, unknown, null, undefined>
+    ) {
+        higlightFocusPt.attr('transform', `translate(${xScale(d0.x)},${yScale(d0.y)})`).attr('class', this._currSelected?.x === d0.x && this._currSelected?.y === d0.y ? 'hoverHighlight-selected' : 'hoverHighlight');
+        tooltip.transition().duration(300).style('opacity', 0.9);
+        // TODO: nda - updating the inner html could be deadly cause injection attacks!
+        tooltip
+            .html(() => `<b>(${d0.x},${d0.y})</b>`) // text content for tooltip
+            .style('pointer-events', 'none')
+            .style('transform', `translate(${xScale(d0.x) - this.width / 2}px,${yScale(d0.y) - 30}px)`);
+    }
+
+    render() {
+        const selectedPt = this._currSelected ? `x: ${this._currSelected.x} y: ${this._currSelected.y}` : 'none';
+        return (
+            <div ref={this._lineChartRef} className="chart-container">
+                <span> {this.props.axes.length < 2 ? 'first use table view to select two axes to plot' : `Selected: ${selectedPt}`}</span>
+            </div>
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/TableBox.scss b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/TableBox.scss
index 1264d6a46..1264d6a46 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/TableBox.scss
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/TableBox.scss
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/TableBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/TableBox.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d69ac890
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/components/TableBox.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+import { action, computed } from 'mobx';
+import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
+import * as React from 'react';
+import { AnimationSym, Doc } from '../../../../../fields/Doc';
+import { Id } from '../../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
+import { List } from '../../../../../fields/List';
+import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../../../Utils';
+import { DragManager } from '../../../../util/DragManager';
+import { DocumentView } from '../../DocumentView';
+import { DataVizView } from '../DataVizBox';
+
+interface TableBoxProps {
+    pairs: { [key: string]: any }[];
+    selectAxes: (axes: string[]) => void;
+    axes: string[];
+    docView?: () => DocumentView | undefined;
+}
+
+@observer
+export class TableBox extends React.Component<TableBoxProps> {
+    @computed get columns() {
+        return this.props.pairs.length ? Array.from(Object.keys(this.props.pairs[0])) : [];
+    }
+    render() {
+        return (
+            <div className="table-container">
+                <table className="table">
+                    <thead>
+                        <tr className="table-row">
+                            {this.columns
+                                .filter(col => !col.startsWith('select'))
+                                .map(col => {
+                                    const header = React.createRef<HTMLElement>();
+                                    return (
+                                        <th
+                                            ref={header as any}
+                                            style={{
+                                                color: this.props.axes.slice().reverse().lastElement() === col ? 'green' : this.props.axes.lastElement() === col ? 'red' : undefined,
+                                                fontWeight: this.props.axes.includes(col) ? 'bolder' : 'normal',
+                                            }}
+                                            onPointerDown={e => {
+                                                const downX = e.clientX;
+                                                const downY = e.clientY;
+                                                setupMoveUpEvents(
+                                                    {},
+                                                    e,
+                                                    e => {
+                                                        const sourceAnchorCreator = () => this.props.docView?.()!.rootDoc!;
+                                                        const targetCreator = (annotationOn: Doc | undefined) => {
+                                                            const alias = Doc.MakeAlias(this.props.docView?.()!.rootDoc!);
+                                                            alias._dataVizView = DataVizView.LINECHART;
+                                                            alias._dataVizAxes = new List<string>([col, col]);
+                                                            alias.annotationOn = annotationOn; //this.props.docView?.()!.rootDoc!;
+                                                            return alias;
+                                                        };
+                                                        if (this.props.docView?.() && !Utils.isClick(e.clientX, e.clientY, downX, downY, Date.now())) {
+                                                            DragManager.StartAnchorAnnoDrag([header.current!], new DragManager.AnchorAnnoDragData(this.props.docView()!, sourceAnchorCreator, targetCreator), downX, downY, {
+                                                                dragComplete: e => {
+                                                                    if (!e.aborted && e.annoDragData && e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc && e.annoDragData.dropDocument && e.linkDocument) {
+                                                                        e.linkDocument.linkDisplay = true;
+                                                                        // e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc.followLinkToggle = e.annoDragData.dropDocument.annotationOn === this.props.rootDoc;
+                                                                        // e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc.followLinkZoom = false;
+                                                                    }
+                                                                },
+                                                            });
+                                                            return true;
+                                                        }
+                                                        return false;
+                                                    },
+                                                    emptyFunction,
+                                                    action(e => {
+                                                        const newAxes = this.props.axes;
+                                                        if (newAxes.includes(col)) {
+                                                            newAxes.splice(newAxes.indexOf(col), 1);
+                                                        } else if (newAxes.length >= 1) {
+                                                            newAxes[1] = col;
+                                                        } else {
+                                                            newAxes[0] = col;
+                                                        }
+                                                        this.props.selectAxes(newAxes);
+                                                    })
+                                                );
+                                            }}>
+                                            {col}
+                                        </th>
+                                    );
+                                })}
+                        </tr>
+                    </thead>
+                    <tbody>
+                        {this.props.pairs?.map((p, i) => {
+                            return (
+                                <tr className="table-row" onClick={action(e => (p['select' + this.props.docView?.()?.rootDoc![Id]] = !p['select' + this.props.docView?.()?.rootDoc![Id]]))}>
+                                    {this.columns.map(col => (
+                                        <td style={{ fontWeight: p['select' + this.props.docView?.()?.rootDoc![Id]] ? 'bold' : '' }}>{p[col]}</td>
+                                    ))}
+                                </tr>
+                            );
+                        })}
+                    </tbody>
+                </table>
+            </div>
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/utils/D3Utils.ts b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/utils/D3Utils.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e1ff6f8eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/utils/D3Utils.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import * as d3 from 'd3';
+import { DataPoint } from '../components/LineChart';
+
+// TODO: nda - implement function that can handle range for strings
+
+export const minMaxRange = (dataPts: DataPoint[][]) => {
+    // find the max and min of all the data points
+    const yMin = d3.min(dataPts, d => d3.min(d, d => Number(d.y)));
+    const yMax = d3.max(dataPts, d => d3.max(d, d => Number(d.y)));
+
+    const xMin = d3.min(dataPts, d => d3.min(d, d => Number(d.x)));
+    const xMax = d3.max(dataPts, d => d3.max(d, d => Number(d.x)));
+
+    return { xMin, xMax, yMin, yMax };
+};
+
+export const scaleCreatorCategorical = (labels: string[], range: number[]) => {
+    const scale = d3.scaleBand().domain(labels).range(range);
+
+    return scale;
+};
+
+export const scaleCreatorNumerical = (domA: number, domB: number, rangeA: number, rangeB: number) => {
+    return d3.scaleLinear().domain([domA, domB]).range([rangeA, rangeB]);
+};
+
+export const createLineGenerator = (xScale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>, yScale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>) => {
+    // TODO: nda - look into the different types of curves
+    return d3
+        .line<DataPoint>()
+        .x(d => xScale(d.x))
+        .y(d => yScale(d.y))
+        .curve(d3.curveMonotoneX);
+};
+
+export const xAxisCreator = (g: d3.Selection<SVGGElement, unknown, null, undefined>, height: number, xScale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>) => {
+    console.log('x axis creator being called');
+    g.attr('class', 'x-axis').attr('transform', `translate(0,${height})`).call(d3.axisBottom(xScale).tickSize(15));
+};
+
+export const yAxisCreator = (g: d3.Selection<SVGGElement, unknown, null, undefined>, marginLeft: number, yScale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>) => {
+    g.attr('class', 'y-axis').call(d3.axisLeft(yScale));
+};
+
+export const xGrid = (g: d3.Selection<SVGGElement, unknown, null, undefined>, height: number, scale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>) => {
+    g.attr('class', 'xGrid')
+        .attr('transform', `translate(0,${height})`)
+        .call(
+            d3
+                .axisBottom(scale)
+                .tickSize(-height)
+                .tickFormat((a, b) => '')
+        );
+};
+
+export const yGrid = (g: d3.Selection<SVGGElement, unknown, null, undefined>, width: number, scale: d3.ScaleLinear<number, number, never>) => {
+    g.attr('class', 'yGrid').call(
+        d3
+            .axisLeft(scale)
+            .tickSize(-width)
+            .tickFormat((a, b) => '')
+    );
+};
+
+export const drawLine = (p: d3.Selection<SVGPathElement, unknown, null, undefined>, dataPts: DataPoint[], lineGen: d3.Line<DataPoint>) => {
+    p.datum(dataPts).attr('fill', 'none').attr('stroke', 'rgba(53, 162, 235, 0.5)').attr('stroke-width', 2).attr('class', 'line').attr('d', lineGen);
+};
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx
index d6679b46d..df3299eef 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ export class DocumentLinksButton extends React.Component<DocumentLinksButtonProp
             } else if (startLink !== endLink) {
                 endLink = endLinkView?.docView?._componentView?.getAnchor?.(true, pinProps) || endLink;
                 startLink = DocumentLinksButton.StartLinkView?.docView?._componentView?.getAnchor?.(true) || startLink;
-                const linkDoc = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: startLink }, { doc: endLink }, DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationId ? 'hypothes.is annotation' : undefined, undefined, undefined, true);
+                const linkDoc = DocUtils.MakeLink(startLink, endLink, { linkRelationship: DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationId ? 'hypothes.is annotation' : undefined }, undefined, true);
 
                 LinkManager.currentLink = linkDoc;
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
index 091a6b050..e24bf35f5 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { ScriptField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, ImageCast, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { AudioField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
 import { GetEffectiveAcl, TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
-import { emptyFunction, isTargetChildOf as isParentOf, lightOrDark, OmitKeys, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnTrue, returnVal, simulateMouseClick, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, isTargetChildOf as isParentOf, lightOrDark, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnTrue, returnVal, simulateMouseClick, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { GooglePhotos } from '../../apis/google_docs/GooglePhotosClientUtils';
 import { DocServer } from '../../DocServer';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ export type StyleProviderFunc = (doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<DocumentViewProps>, p
 export interface DocComponentView {
     updateIcon?: () => void; // updates the icon representation of the document
     getAnchor?: (addAsAnnotation: boolean, pinData?: PinProps) => Doc; // returns an Anchor Doc that represents the current state of the doc's componentview (e.g., the current playhead location of a an audio/video box)
+    restoreView?: (viewSpec: Doc) => boolean;
     scrollPreview?: (docView: DocumentView, doc: Doc, focusSpeed: number, options: DocFocusOptions) => Opt<number>; // returns the duration of the focus
     brushView?: (view: { width: number; height: number; panX: number; panY: number }) => void;
     getView?: (doc: Doc) => Promise<Opt<DocumentView>>; // returns a nested DocumentView for the specified doc or undefined
@@ -512,7 +513,6 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                 this.props.isDocumentActive?.() &&
                 !this.props.onBrowseClick?.() &&
                 !this.Document.ignoreClick &&
-                !e.ctrlKey &&
                 e.button === 0 &&
                 this.pointerEvents !== 'none' &&
                 !DocListCast(Doc.MyOverlayDocs?.data).includes(this.layoutDoc)
@@ -618,22 +618,24 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
 
     @undoBatch
     @action
-    drop = async (e: Event, de: DragManager.DropEvent) => {
+    drop = (e: Event, de: DragManager.DropEvent) => {
         if (this.props.dontRegisterView || this.props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(LinkAnchorBox.name)) return;
         if (this.props.Document === Doc.ActiveDashboard) {
             alert((e.target as any)?.closest?.('*.lm_content') ? "You can't perform this move most likely because you don't have permission to modify the destination." : 'Linking to document tabs not yet supported. Drop link on document content.');
             return;
         }
         const linkdrag = de.complete.annoDragData ?? de.complete.linkDragData;
-        if (linkdrag) linkdrag.linkSourceDoc = linkdrag.linkSourceGetAnchor();
-        if (linkdrag?.linkSourceDoc) {
-            e.stopPropagation();
-            if (de.complete.annoDragData && !de.complete.annoDragData.dropDocument) {
-                de.complete.annoDragData.dropDocument = de.complete.annoDragData.dropDocCreator(undefined);
-            }
-            if (de.complete.annoDragData || this.rootDoc !== linkdrag.linkSourceDoc.context) {
-                const dropDoc = de.complete.annoDragData?.dropDocument ?? this._componentView?.getAnchor?.(true) ?? this.props.Document;
-                de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: linkdrag.linkSourceDoc }, { doc: dropDoc }, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, [de.x, de.y - 50]);
+        if (linkdrag) {
+            linkdrag.linkSourceDoc = linkdrag.linkSourceGetAnchor();
+            if (linkdrag.linkSourceDoc) {
+                e.stopPropagation();
+                if (de.complete.annoDragData && !de.complete.annoDragData.dropDocument) {
+                    de.complete.annoDragData.dropDocument = de.complete.annoDragData.dropDocCreator(undefined);
+                }
+                if (de.complete.annoDragData || this.rootDoc !== linkdrag.linkSourceDoc.context) {
+                    const dropDoc = de.complete.annoDragData?.dropDocument ?? this._componentView?.getAnchor?.(true) ?? this.rootDoc;
+                    de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink(linkdrag.linkSourceDoc, dropDoc, {}, undefined, undefined, [de.x, de.y - 50]);
+                }
             }
         }
     };
@@ -644,9 +646,9 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         const portalLink = this.allLinks.find(d => d.anchor1 === this.props.Document && d.linkRelationship === 'portal to:portal from');
         if (!portalLink) {
             DocUtils.MakeLink(
-                { doc: this.props.Document },
-                { doc: Docs.Create.FreeformDocument([], { _width: NumCast(this.layoutDoc._width) + 10, _height: NumCast(this.layoutDoc._height), _isLightbox: true, _fitWidth: true, title: StrCast(this.props.Document.title) + ' [Portal]' }) },
-                'portal to:portal from'
+                this.props.Document,
+                Docs.Create.FreeformDocument([], { _width: NumCast(this.layoutDoc._width) + 10, _height: NumCast(this.layoutDoc._height), _isLightbox: true, _fitWidth: true, title: StrCast(this.props.Document.title) + ' [Portal]' }),
+                { linkRelationship: 'portal to:portal from' }
             );
         }
         this.Document.followLinkLocation = OpenWhere.lightbox;
@@ -654,6 +656,24 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         this.Document._isLinkButton = true;
     };
 
+    importDocument = () => {
+        const input = document.createElement('input');
+        input.type = 'file';
+        input.accept = '.zip';
+        input.onchange = _e => {
+            if (input.files) {
+                const batch = UndoManager.StartBatch('importing');
+                Doc.importDocument(input.files[0]).then(doc => {
+                    if (doc instanceof Doc) {
+                        this.props.addDocTab(doc, OpenWhere.addRight);
+                        batch.end();
+                    }
+                });
+            }
+        };
+        input.click();
+    };
+
     @action
     onContextMenu = (e?: React.MouseEvent, pageX?: number, pageY?: number) => {
         if (e && this.rootDoc._hideContextMenu && Doc.noviceMode) {
@@ -705,25 +725,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
             const appearance = cm.findByDescription('UI Controls...');
             const appearanceItems: ContextMenuProps[] = appearance && 'subitems' in appearance ? appearance.subitems : [];
             !Doc.noviceMode && templateDoc && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Open Template   ', event: () => this.props.addDocTab(templateDoc, OpenWhere.addRight), icon: 'eye' });
-            !Doc.noviceMode &&
-                appearanceItems.push({
-                    description: 'Add a Field',
-                    event: () => {
-                        const alias = Doc.MakeAlias(this.rootDoc);
-                        alias.layout = FormattedTextBox.LayoutString('newfield');
-                        alias.title = 'newfield';
-                        alias._height = 35;
-                        alias._width = 100;
-                        alias.syncLayoutFieldWithTitle = true;
-                        alias.x = NumCast(this.rootDoc.x) + NumCast(this.rootDoc.width);
-                        alias.y = NumCast(this.rootDoc.y);
-                        this.props.addDocument?.(alias);
-                    },
-                    icon: 'eye',
-                });
-            LinkManager.Links(this.Document).length &&
-                appearanceItems.splice(0, 0, { description: `${this.layoutDoc.hideLinkButton ? 'Show' : 'Hide'} Link Button`, event: action(() => (this.layoutDoc.hideLinkButton = !this.layoutDoc.hideLinkButton)), icon: 'eye' });
-            !appearance && cm.addItem({ description: 'UI Controls...', subitems: appearanceItems, icon: 'compass' });
+            !appearance && appearanceItems.length && cm.addItem({ description: 'UI Controls...', subitems: appearanceItems, icon: 'compass' });
 
             if (!Doc.IsSystem(this.rootDoc) && this.rootDoc._viewType !== CollectionViewType.Docking && this.props.ContainingCollectionDoc?._viewType !== CollectionViewType.Tree) {
                 const existingOnClick = cm.findByDescription('OnClick...');
@@ -791,16 +793,21 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                     }
                     moreItems.push({ description: 'Copy ID', event: () => Utils.CopyText(Doc.globalServerPath(this.props.Document)), icon: 'fingerprint' });
                 }
-                moreItems.push({ description: 'Export collection', icon: 'download', event: async () => Doc.Zip(this.props.Document) });
-
-                (this.rootDoc._viewType !== CollectionViewType.Docking || !Doc.noviceMode) && moreItems.push({ description: 'Share', event: () => SharingManager.Instance.open(this.props.DocumentView()), icon: 'users' });
             }
 
-            if (this.props.removeDocument && !Doc.IsSystem(this.rootDoc) && Doc.ActiveDashboard !== this.props.Document) {
+            !more && moreItems.length && cm.addItem({ description: 'More...', subitems: moreItems, icon: 'compass' });
+        }
+        const constantItems: ContextMenuProps[] = [];
+
+        if (!Doc.IsSystem(this.rootDoc)) {
+            constantItems.push({ description: 'Export as Zip file', icon: 'download', event: async () => Doc.Zip(this.props.Document) });
+            constantItems.push({ description: 'Import Zipped file', icon: 'upload', event: ({ x, y }) => this.importDocument() });
+            (this.rootDoc._viewType !== CollectionViewType.Docking || !Doc.noviceMode) && constantItems.push({ description: 'Share', event: () => SharingManager.Instance.open(this.props.DocumentView()), icon: 'users' });
+            if (this.props.removeDocument && Doc.ActiveDashboard !== this.props.Document) {
                 // need option to gray out menu items ... preferably with a '?' that explains why they're grayed out (eg., no permissions)
-                moreItems.push({ description: 'Close', event: this.deleteClicked, icon: 'times' });
+                constantItems.push({ description: 'Close', event: this.deleteClicked, icon: 'times' });
             }
-            !more && moreItems.length && cm.addItem({ description: 'More...', subitems: moreItems, icon: 'compass' });
+            cm.addItem({ description: 'General...', noexpand: false, subitems: constantItems, icon: 'question' });
         }
         const help = cm.findByDescription('Help...');
         const helpItems: ContextMenuProps[] = help && 'subitems' in help ? help.subitems : [];
@@ -851,7 +858,8 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                 icon: 'book',
             });
         }
-        cm.addItem({ description: 'Help...', noexpand: true, subitems: helpItems, icon: 'question' });
+        if (!help) cm.addItem({ description: 'Help...', noexpand: true, subitems: helpItems, icon: 'question' });
+        else cm.moveAfter(help);
 
         e?.stopPropagation(); // DocumentViews should stop propagation of this event
         cm.displayMenu((e?.pageX || pageX || 0) - 15, (e?.pageY || pageY || 0) - 15);
@@ -863,13 +871,13 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
     onClickFunc: any = () => (this.disableClickScriptFunc ? undefined : this.onClickHandler);
     setHeight = (height: number) => (this.layoutDoc._height = height);
     setContentView = action((view: { getAnchor?: (addAsAnnotation: boolean) => Doc; forward?: () => boolean; back?: () => boolean }) => (this._componentView = view));
-    isContentActive = (outsideReaction?: boolean) => {
+    isContentActive = (outsideReaction?: boolean): boolean | undefined => {
         return this.props.isContentActive() === false
             ? false
             : Doc.ActiveTool !== InkTool.None ||
               SnappingManager.GetIsDragging() ||
               this.rootSelected() ||
-              this.props.Document.forceActive ||
+              this.rootDoc.forceActive ||
               this.props.isSelected(outsideReaction) ||
               this._componentView?.isAnyChildContentActive?.() ||
               this.props.isContentActive()
@@ -1064,7 +1072,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         }
     };
 
-    captionStyleProvider = (doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<DocumentViewInternalProps>, property: string) => this.props?.styleProvider?.(doc, props, property + ':caption');
+    captionStyleProvider = (doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<DocumentViewProps>, property: string) => this.props?.styleProvider?.(doc, props, property + ':caption');
     @computed get innards() {
         TraceMobx();
         const ffscale = () => this.props.DocumentView().props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.().props.ScreenToLocalTransform().Scale || 1;
@@ -1079,7 +1087,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                     maxHeight: `max(100%, ${20 * ffscale()}px)`,
                 }}>
                 <FormattedTextBox
-                    {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['children']).omit}
+                    {...this.props}
                     yPadding={10}
                     xPadding={10}
                     fieldKey={this.showCaption}
@@ -1090,7 +1098,6 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                     dontScale={true}
                     renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth}
                     isContentActive={this.isContentActive}
-                    onClick={this.onClickFunc}
                 />
             </div>
         );
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
index e53422ab7..8d3534a5c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export interface FieldViewProps extends DocumentViewSharedProps {
 
     select: (isCtrlPressed: boolean) => void;
     isContentActive: (outsideReaction?: boolean) => boolean | undefined;
-    isDocumentActive?: () => boolean;
+    isDocumentActive?: () => boolean | undefined;
     isSelected: (outsideReaction?: boolean) => boolean;
     setHeight?: (height: number) => void;
     NativeDimScaling?: () => number; // scaling the DocumentView does to transform its contents into its panel & needed by ScreenToLocal NOTE: Must also be added to DocumentViewInternalsProps
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx
index 48e54b722..f38ebba27 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { ComputedField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { BoolCast, Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { ImageField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
 import { TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
-import { DashColor, emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnOne, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
+import { DashColor, emptyFunction, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnOne, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { GooglePhotos } from '../../apis/google_docs/GooglePhotosClientUtils';
 import { CognitiveServices, Confidence, Service, Tag } from '../../cognitive_services/CognitiveServices';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         croppingProto.panYMin = anchy / viewScale;
         croppingProto.panYMax = anchh / viewScale;
         if (addCrop) {
-            DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: region }, { doc: cropping }, 'cropped image', '');
+            DocUtils.MakeLink(region, cropping, { linkRelationship: 'cropped image' });
             cropping.x = NumCast(this.rootDoc.x) + this.rootDoc[WidthSym]();
             cropping.y = NumCast(this.rootDoc.y);
             this.props.addDocTab(cropping, OpenWhere.inParent);
@@ -409,8 +409,6 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         );
     }
 
-    contentFunc = () => [this.content];
-
     private _mainCont: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement> = React.createRef();
     private _annotationLayer: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement> = React.createRef();
     @observable _marqueeing: number[] | undefined;
@@ -473,7 +471,10 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
                 }}>
                 <CollectionFreeFormView
                     ref={this._ffref}
-                    {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
+                    {...this.props}
+                    setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                    NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                    NativeHeight={returnZero}
                     renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
                     fieldKey={this.annotationKey}
                     styleProvider={this.props.styleProvider}
@@ -487,11 +488,12 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
                     focus={this.focus}
                     getScrollHeight={this.getScrollHeight}
                     NativeDimScaling={returnOne}
+                    isAnyChildContentActive={returnFalse}
                     whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
                     removeDocument={this.removeDocument}
                     moveDocument={this.moveDocument}
                     addDocument={this.addDocument}>
-                    {this.contentFunc}
+                    {this.content}
                 </CollectionFreeFormView>
                 {this.annotationLayer}
                 {!this._marqueeing || !this._mainCont.current || !this._annotationLayer.current ? null : (
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx
index ea8f47b39..36be7d257 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { Doc, DocListCast, Opt, WidthSym } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Id } from '../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { InkTool } from '../../../../fields/InkField';
 import { NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../../fields/Types';
-import { emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnOne, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnOne, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../../Utils';
 import { Docs } from '../../../documents/Documents';
 import { DragManager } from '../../../util/DragManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../../util/SnappingManager';
@@ -635,7 +635,8 @@ export class MapBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
                                 .map(marker => (
                                     <MapBoxInfoWindow
                                         key={marker[Id]}
-                                        {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
+                                        {...this.props}
+                                        setContentView={emptyFunction}
                                         place={marker}
                                         markerMap={this.markerMap}
                                         PanelWidth={this.infoWidth}
@@ -674,6 +675,7 @@ export class MapBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
                         rootDoc={this.rootDoc}
                         layoutDoc={this.layoutDoc}
                         dataDoc={this.dataDoc}
+                        usePanelWidth={true}
                         showSidebar={this.SidebarShown}
                         nativeWidth={NumCast(this.layoutDoc._nativeWidth)}
                         whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx
index 00bedafbe..d65ef9c4c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Id } from '../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
-import { emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnAll, returnEmptyFilter, returnFalse, returnOne, returnTrue, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnAll, returnEmptyFilter, returnFalse, returnOne, returnTrue, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../../Utils';
 import { Docs } from '../../../documents/Documents';
 import { CollectionViewType, DocumentType } from '../../../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { CollectionNoteTakingView } from '../../collections/CollectionNoteTakingView';
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ export class MapBoxInfoWindow extends React.Component<MapBoxInfoWindowProps & Vi
                     <div style={{ width: this.props.PanelWidth(), height: this.props.PanelHeight() }}>
                         <CollectionStackingView
                             ref={r => (this._stack = r)}
-                            {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
+                            {...this.props}
+                            setContentView={emptyFunction}
                             Document={this.props.place}
                             DataDoc={undefined}
                             fieldKey="data"
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
index 5f207cc0d..e38d7e2a8 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
@@ -5,16 +5,20 @@ import * as Pdfjs from 'pdfjs-dist';
 import 'pdfjs-dist/web/pdf_viewer.css';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, HeightSym, Opt, WidthSym } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
-import { Cast, ImageCast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
+import { InkTool } from '../../../fields/InkField';
+import { ComputedField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
+import { Cast, FieldValue, ImageCast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { ImageField, PdfField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
 import { TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
-import { emptyFunction, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
-import { DocumentType } from '../../documents/DocumentTypes';
+import { CollectionViewType, DocumentType } from '../../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../../util/DocumentManager';
 import { KeyCodes } from '../../util/KeyCodes';
+import { SelectionManager } from '../../util/SelectionManager';
 import { undoBatch, UndoManager } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm';
+import { CollectionStackingView } from '../collections/CollectionStackingView';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
 import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
@@ -41,7 +45,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     private _initialScrollTarget: Opt<Doc>;
     private _pdfViewer: PDFViewer | undefined;
     private _searchRef = React.createRef<HTMLInputElement>();
-    private _selectReactionDisposer: IReactionDisposer | undefined;
+    private _disposers: { [name: string]: IReactionDisposer } = {};
     private _sidebarRef = React.createRef<SidebarAnnos>();
 
     @observable private _searching: boolean = false;
@@ -126,7 +130,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         croppingProto['data-nativeWidth'] = anchw;
         croppingProto['data-nativeHeight'] = anchh;
         if (addCrop) {
-            DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: region }, { doc: cropping }, 'cropped image', '');
+            DocUtils.MakeLink(region, cropping, { linkRelationship: 'cropped image' });
         }
         this.props.bringToFront(cropping);
 
@@ -184,11 +188,11 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     };
 
     componentWillUnmount() {
-        this._selectReactionDisposer?.();
+        Object.values(this._disposers).forEach(disposer => disposer?.());
     }
     componentDidMount() {
         this.props.setContentView?.(this);
-        this._selectReactionDisposer = reaction(
+        this._disposers.select = reaction(
             () => this.props.isSelected(),
             () => {
                 document.removeEventListener('keydown', this.onKeyDown);
@@ -196,6 +200,16 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
             },
             { fireImmediately: true }
         );
+        this._disposers.scroll = reaction(
+            () => this.rootDoc.scrollTop,
+            () => {
+                if (!(ComputedField.WithoutComputed(() => FieldValue(this.props.Document[this.SidebarKey + '-panY'])) instanceof ComputedField)) {
+                    this.props.Document[this.SidebarKey + '-panY'] = ComputedField.MakeFunction('this.scrollTop');
+                }
+                this.props.Document[this.SidebarKey + '-viewScale'] = 1;
+                this.props.Document[this.SidebarKey + '-panX'] = 0;
+            }
+        );
     }
 
     brushView = (view: { width: number; height: number; panX: number; panY: number }) => this._pdfViewer?.brushView(view);
@@ -303,7 +317,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
 
     // adding external documents; to sidebar key
     // if (doc.Geolocation) this.addDocument(doc, this.fieldkey+"-annotation")
-    sidebarAddDocument = (doc: Doc | Doc[], sidebarKey?: string) => {
+    sidebarAddDocument = (doc: Doc | Doc[], sidebarKey: string = this.SidebarKey) => {
         if (!this.layoutDoc._showSidebar) this.toggleSidebar();
         return this.addDocument(doc, sidebarKey);
     };
@@ -330,7 +344,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
             },
             (e, movement, isClick) => !isClick && batch.end(),
             () => {
-                this.toggleSidebar();
+                onButton && this.toggleSidebar();
                 batch.end();
             }
         );
@@ -426,12 +440,20 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         const nativeDiff = NumCast(this.layoutDoc.nativeWidth) - Doc.NativeWidth(this.dataDoc);
         return PDFBox.sidebarResizerWidth + nativeDiff * (this.props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1);
     };
+    @undoBatch
+    toggleSidebarType = () => (this.rootDoc.sidebarViewType = this.rootDoc.sidebarViewType === CollectionViewType.Freeform ? CollectionViewType.Stacking : CollectionViewType.Freeform);
     specificContextMenu = (e: React.MouseEvent): void => {
-        const funcs: ContextMenuProps[] = [];
-        funcs.push({ description: 'Copy path', event: () => this.pdfUrl && Utils.CopyText(Utils.prepend('') + this.pdfUrl.url.pathname), icon: 'expand-arrows-alt' });
-        funcs.push({ description: 'update icon', event: () => this.pdfUrl && this.updateIcon(), icon: 'expand-arrows-alt' });
-        //funcs.push({ description: "Toggle Sidebar ", event: () => this.toggleSidebar(), icon: "expand-arrows-alt" });
-        ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Options...', subitems: funcs, icon: 'asterisk' });
+        const cm = ContextMenu.Instance;
+        const options = cm.findByDescription('Options...');
+        const optionItems: ContextMenuProps[] = options && 'subitems' in options ? options.subitems : [];
+        optionItems.push({ description: 'Toggle Sidebar Type', event: this.toggleSidebarType, icon: 'expand-arrows-alt' });
+        !Doc.noviceMode && optionItems.push({ description: 'update icon', event: () => this.pdfUrl && this.updateIcon(), icon: 'expand-arrows-alt' });
+        //optionItems.push({ description: "Toggle Sidebar ", event: () => this.toggleSidebar(), icon: "expand-arrows-alt" });
+        !options && ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Options...', subitems: optionItems, icon: 'asterisk' });
+        const help = cm.findByDescription('Help...');
+        const helpItems: ContextMenuProps[] = help && 'subitems' in help ? help.subitems : [];
+        helpItems.push({ description: 'Copy path', event: () => this.pdfUrl && Utils.CopyText(Utils.prepend('') + this.pdfUrl.url.pathname), icon: 'expand-arrows-alt' });
+        !help && ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Help...', noexpand: true, subitems: helpItems, icon: 'asterisk' });
     };
 
     @computed get renderTitleBox() {
@@ -467,14 +489,87 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         );
     }
 
+    public get SidebarKey() {
+        return this.fieldKey + '-sidebar';
+    }
+    @computed get pdfScale() {
+        const pdfNativeWidth = NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.fieldKey + '-nativeWidth']);
+        const nativeWidth = NumCast(this.layoutDoc.nativeWidth, pdfNativeWidth);
+        const pdfRatio = pdfNativeWidth / nativeWidth;
+        return (pdfRatio * this.props.PanelWidth()) / pdfNativeWidth;
+    }
+    @computed get sidebarNativeWidth() {
+        return this.sidebarWidth() / this.pdfScale;
+    }
+    @computed get sidebarNativeHeight() {
+        return this.props.PanelHeight() / this.pdfScale;
+    }
+    sidebarNativeWidthFunc = () => this.sidebarNativeWidth;
+    sidebarNativeHeightFunc = () => this.sidebarNativeHeight;
+    sidebarMoveDocument = (doc: Doc | Doc[], targetCollection: Doc | undefined, addDocument: (doc: Doc | Doc[]) => boolean) => this.moveDocument(doc, targetCollection, addDocument, this.SidebarKey);
+    sidebarRemDocument = (doc: Doc | Doc[]) => this.removeDocument(doc, this.SidebarKey);
+    sidebarScreenToLocal = () => this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate((this.sidebarWidth() - this.props.PanelWidth()) / this.pdfScale, 0);
+    @computed get sidebarCollection() {
+        const renderComponent = (tag: string) => {
+            const ComponentTag = tag === CollectionViewType.Freeform ? CollectionFreeFormView : CollectionStackingView;
+            return ComponentTag === CollectionStackingView ? (
+                <SidebarAnnos
+                    ref={this._sidebarRef}
+                    {...this.props}
+                    rootDoc={this.rootDoc}
+                    layoutDoc={this.layoutDoc}
+                    dataDoc={this.dataDoc}
+                    setHeight={emptyFunction}
+                    nativeWidth={this._previewNativeWidth ?? NumCast(this.layoutDoc._nativeWidth)}
+                    showSidebar={this.SidebarShown}
+                    whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
+                    sidebarAddDocument={this.sidebarAddDocument}
+                    moveDocument={this.moveDocument}
+                    removeDocument={this.removeDocument}
+                />
+            ) : (
+                <div onPointerDown={e => setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, returnFalse, emptyFunction, () => SelectionManager.SelectView(this.props.DocumentView?.()!, false), true)}>
+                    <ComponentTag
+                        {...this.props}
+                        setContentView={emptyFunction} // override setContentView to do nothing
+                        NativeWidth={this.sidebarNativeWidthFunc}
+                        NativeHeight={this.sidebarNativeHeightFunc}
+                        PanelHeight={this.props.PanelHeight}
+                        PanelWidth={this.sidebarWidth}
+                        xPadding={0}
+                        yPadding={0}
+                        viewField={this.SidebarKey}
+                        isAnnotationOverlay={false}
+                        originTopLeft={true}
+                        isAnyChildContentActive={this.isAnyChildContentActive}
+                        select={emptyFunction}
+                        whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
+                        removeDocument={this.sidebarRemDocument}
+                        moveDocument={this.sidebarMoveDocument}
+                        addDocument={this.sidebarAddDocument}
+                        CollectionView={undefined}
+                        ScreenToLocalTransform={this.sidebarScreenToLocal}
+                        renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
+                        noSidebar={true}
+                        fieldKey={this.SidebarKey}
+                    />
+                </div>
+            );
+        };
+        return (
+            <div className={'formattedTextBox-sidebar' + (Doc.ActiveTool !== InkTool.None ? '-inking' : '')} style={{ width: '100%', right: 0, backgroundColor: `white` }}>
+                {renderComponent(StrCast(this.layoutDoc.sidebarViewType))}
+            </div>
+        );
+    }
     isPdfContentActive = () => this.isAnyChildContentActive() || this.props.isSelected() || (this.props.renderDepth === 0 && LightboxView.IsLightboxDocView(this.props.docViewPath()));
     @computed get renderPdfView() {
         TraceMobx();
         const previewScale = this._previewNativeWidth ? 1 - this.sidebarWidth() / this._previewNativeWidth : 1;
         const scale = previewScale * (this.props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1);
-        return (
+        return !this._pdf ? null : (
             <div
-                className={'pdfBox'}
+                className="pdfBox"
                 onContextMenu={this.specificContextMenu}
                 style={{
                     display: this.props.thumbShown?.() ? 'none' : undefined,
@@ -496,7 +591,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
                         addDocTab={this.sidebarAddDocTab}
                         layoutDoc={this.layoutDoc}
                         dataDoc={this.dataDoc}
-                        pdf={this._pdf!}
+                        pdf={this._pdf}
                         focus={this.focus}
                         url={this.pdfUrl!.url.pathname}
                         isContentActive={this.isPdfContentActive}
@@ -510,22 +605,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
                         crop={this.crop}
                     />
                 </div>
-                <div style={{ position: 'absolute', height: '100%', right: 0, top: 0, width: `calc(100 * ${this.sidebarWidth() / this.props.PanelWidth()}%` }}>
-                    <SidebarAnnos
-                        ref={this._sidebarRef}
-                        {...this.props}
-                        rootDoc={this.rootDoc}
-                        layoutDoc={this.layoutDoc}
-                        dataDoc={this.dataDoc}
-                        setHeight={emptyFunction}
-                        nativeWidth={this._previewNativeWidth ?? NumCast(this.layoutDoc._nativeWidth)}
-                        showSidebar={this.SidebarShown}
-                        whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
-                        sidebarAddDocument={this.sidebarAddDocument}
-                        moveDocument={this.moveDocument}
-                        removeDocument={this.removeDocument}
-                    />
-                </div>
+                <div style={{ position: 'absolute', height: '100%', right: 0, top: 0, width: `calc(100 * ${this.sidebarWidth() / this.props.PanelWidth()}%` }}>{this.sidebarCollection}</div>
                 {this.settingsPanel()}
             </div>
         );
@@ -535,21 +615,17 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     static pdfpromise = new Map<string, Promise<Pdfjs.PDFDocumentProxy>>();
     render() {
         TraceMobx();
-        if (this._pdf) {
-            if (!this.props.thumbShown?.()) {
-                return this.renderPdfView;
-            }
-            return null;
-        }
+        if (this.props.thumbShown?.()) return null;
+        const pdfView = this.renderPdfView;
 
         const href = this.pdfUrl?.url.href;
-        if (href) {
+        if (!pdfView && href) {
             if (PDFBox.pdfcache.get(href)) setTimeout(action(() => (this._pdf = PDFBox.pdfcache.get(href))));
             else {
                 if (!PDFBox.pdfpromise.get(href)) PDFBox.pdfpromise.set(href, Pdfjs.getDocument(href).promise);
                 PDFBox.pdfpromise.get(href)?.then(action((pdf: any) => PDFBox.pdfcache.set(href, (this._pdf = pdf))));
             }
         }
-        return this.renderTitleBox;
+        return pdfView ?? this.renderTitleBox;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx
index 61e4894f0..db11a7776 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { ComputedField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { Cast, NumCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { AudioField, VideoField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
 import { TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
-import { emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnFalse, returnOne } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, returnOne, returnZero } from '../../../Utils';
 import { DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { DocumentType } from '../../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { Networking } from '../../Network';
@@ -277,7 +277,6 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
         dictationTextProto.mediaState = ComputedField.MakeFunction('self.recordingSource.mediaState');
         this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey + '-dictation'] = dictationText;
     };
-    contentFunc = () => [this.threed, this.content];
     videoPanelHeight = () => (NumCast(this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey + '-nativeHeight'], this.layoutDoc[HeightSym]()) / NumCast(this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey + '-nativeWidth'], this.layoutDoc[WidthSym]())) * this.props.PanelWidth();
     formattedPanelHeight = () => Math.max(0, this.props.PanelHeight() - this.videoPanelHeight());
     render() {
@@ -287,7 +286,10 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
                 <div className="videoBox-viewer">
                     <div style={{ position: 'relative', height: this.videoPanelHeight() }}>
                         <CollectionFreeFormView
-                            {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight']).omit}
+                            {...this.props}
+                            setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                            NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                            NativeHeight={returnZero}
                             PanelHeight={this.videoPanelHeight}
                             PanelWidth={this.props.PanelWidth}
                             focus={this.props.focus}
@@ -296,6 +298,7 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
                             select={emptyFunction}
                             isContentActive={returnFalse}
                             NativeDimScaling={returnOne}
+                            isAnyChildContentActive={returnFalse}
                             whenChildContentsActiveChanged={emptyFunction}
                             removeDocument={returnFalse}
                             moveDocument={returnFalse}
@@ -304,17 +307,19 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
                             ScreenToLocalTransform={this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform}
                             renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
                             ContainingCollectionDoc={this.props.ContainingCollectionDoc}>
-                            {this.contentFunc}
+                            <>
+                                {this.threed}
+                                {this.content}
+                            </>
                         </CollectionFreeFormView>
                     </div>
                     <div style={{ position: 'relative', height: this.formattedPanelHeight() }}>
                         {!(this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey + '-dictation'] instanceof Doc) ? null : (
                             <FormattedTextBox
-                                {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight']).omit}
+                                {...this.props}
                                 Document={this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey + '-dictation']}
                                 fieldKey={'text'}
                                 PanelHeight={this.formattedPanelHeight}
-                                isAnnotationOverlay={true}
                                 select={emptyFunction}
                                 isContentActive={emptyFunction}
                                 NativeDimScaling={returnOne}
@@ -324,7 +329,6 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
                                 removeDocument={returnFalse}
                                 moveDocument={returnFalse}
                                 addDocument={returnFalse}
-                                CollectionView={undefined}
                                 renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
                                 ContainingCollectionDoc={this.props.ContainingCollectionDoc}></FormattedTextBox>
                         )}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx
index 0b88f5fe3..e14ad4b05 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { List } from '../../../fields/List';
 import { ObjectField } from '../../../fields/ObjectField';
 import { Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { AudioField, ImageField, VideoField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
-import { emptyFunction, formatTime, OmitKeys, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnOne, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, formatTime, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnOne, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { DocumentType } from '../../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { Networking } from '../../Network';
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
                 _isLinkButton: true,
             });
             this.props.addDocument?.(b);
-            DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: b }, { doc: this.rootDoc }, 'video snapshot');
+            DocUtils.MakeLink(b, this.rootDoc, { linkRelationship: 'video snapshot' });
             Networking.PostToServer('/youtubeScreenshot', {
                 id: this.youtubeVideoId,
                 timecode: this.layoutDoc._currentTimecode,
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         Doc.SetNativeWidth(Doc.GetProto(imageSnapshot), Doc.NativeWidth(this.layoutDoc));
         Doc.SetNativeHeight(Doc.GetProto(imageSnapshot), Doc.NativeHeight(this.layoutDoc));
         this.props.addDocument?.(imageSnapshot);
-        const link = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: imageSnapshot }, { doc: this.getAnchor(true) }, 'video snapshot');
+        const link = DocUtils.MakeLink(imageSnapshot, this.getAnchor(true), { linkRelationship: 'video snapshot' });
         link && (Doc.GetProto(link.anchor2 as Doc).timecodeToHide = NumCast((link.anchor2 as Doc).timecodeToShow) + 3);
         setTimeout(() => downX !== undefined && downY !== undefined && DocumentManager.Instance.getFirstDocumentView(imageSnapshot)?.startDragging(downX, downY, 'move', true));
     };
@@ -894,8 +894,6 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
 
     playing = () => this._playing;
 
-    contentFunc = () => [this.youtubeVideoId ? this.youtubeContent : this.content];
-
     scaling = () => this.props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1;
 
     panelWidth = () => (this.props.PanelWidth() * this.heightPercent) / 100;
@@ -1033,7 +1031,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         croppingProto.panYMin = anchy / viewScale;
         croppingProto.panYMax = anchh / viewScale;
         if (addCrop) {
-            DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: region }, { doc: cropping }, 'cropped image', '');
+            DocUtils.MakeLink(region, cropping, { linkRelationship: 'cropped image' });
         }
         this.props.bringToFront(cropping);
         return cropping;
@@ -1068,7 +1066,10 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
                             left: (this.props.PanelWidth() - this.panelWidth()) / 2,
                         }}>
                         <CollectionFreeFormView
-                            {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
+                            {...this.props}
+                            setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                            NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                            NativeHeight={returnZero}
                             renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
                             fieldKey={this.annotationKey}
                             CollectionView={undefined}
@@ -1076,6 +1077,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
                             annotationLayerHostsContent={true}
                             PanelWidth={this.panelWidth}
                             PanelHeight={this.panelHeight}
+                            isAnyChildContentActive={returnFalse}
                             ScreenToLocalTransform={this.screenToLocalTransform}
                             docFilters={this.timelineDocFilter}
                             select={emptyFunction}
@@ -1084,7 +1086,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
                             removeDocument={this.removeDocument}
                             moveDocument={this.moveDocument}
                             addDocument={this.addDocWithTimecode}>
-                            {this.contentFunc}
+                            {this.youtubeVideoId ? this.youtubeContent : this.content}
                         </CollectionFreeFormView>
                     </div>
                     {this.annotationLayer}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx
index d57518a8d..66d0fd385 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { listSpec } from '../../../fields/Schema';
 import { Cast, ImageCast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { ImageField, WebField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
 import { TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
-import { emptyFunction, getWordAtPoint, OmitKeys, returnFalse, returnOne, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScroll, StopEvent, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, getWordAtPoint, returnFalse, returnOne, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScroll, StopEvent, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../../util/DocumentManager';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
@@ -305,7 +305,9 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
             const scrollTo = Utils.scrollIntoView(NumCast(anchor.y), anchor[HeightSym](), NumCast(this.layoutDoc._scrollTop), windowHeight, windowHeight * 0.1, Math.max(NumCast(anchor.y) + anchor[HeightSym](), this._scrollHeight));
             if (scrollTo !== undefined) {
                 if (this._initialScroll === undefined) {
-                    this.goTo(scrollTo, options.zoomTime ?? 500, options.easeFunc);
+                    const focusTime = options.zoomTime ?? 500;
+                    this.goTo(scrollTo, focusTime, options.easeFunc);
+                    return focusTime;
                 } else {
                     this._initialScroll = scrollTo;
                 }
@@ -904,9 +906,12 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         const previewScale = this._previewNativeWidth ? 1 - this.sidebarWidth() / this._previewNativeWidth : 1;
         const pointerEvents = this.layoutDoc._lockedPosition ? 'none' : (this.props.pointerEvents?.() as any);
         const scale = previewScale * (this.props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1);
-        const renderAnnotations = (docFilters?: () => string[]) => (
+        const renderAnnotations = (docFilters: () => string[]) => (
             <CollectionFreeFormView
-                {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
+                {...this.props}
+                setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                NativeHeight={returnZero}
                 renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
                 isAnnotationOverlay={true}
                 fieldKey={this.annotationKey}
@@ -921,6 +926,7 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
                 dropAction={'alias'}
                 docFilters={docFilters}
                 select={emptyFunction}
+                isAnyChildContentActive={returnFalse}
                 bringToFront={emptyFunction}
                 styleProvider={this.childStyleProvider}
                 whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/button/FontIconBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/button/FontIconBox.tsx
index 28e6eaf1c..8eacfbc51 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/button/FontIconBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/button/FontIconBox.tsx
@@ -161,7 +161,13 @@ export class FontIconBox extends DocComponent<ButtonProps>() {
                 </div>
             );
             return (
-                <div className={`menuButton ${this.type} ${numBtnType}`} onPointerDown={e => e.stopPropagation()} onClick={action(() => (this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen))}>
+                <div
+                    className={`menuButton ${this.type} ${numBtnType}`}
+                    onPointerDown={e => e.stopPropagation()}
+                    onClick={action(() => {
+                        this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen;
+                        Doc.UnBrushAllDocs();
+                    })}>
                     {checkResult}
                     {label}
                     {this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen ? dropdown : null}
@@ -198,7 +204,10 @@ export class FontIconBox extends DocComponent<ButtonProps>() {
                             e.stopPropagation();
                             e.preventDefault();
                         }}
-                        onClick={action(() => (this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen))}>
+                        onClick={action(() => {
+                            this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen;
+                            Doc.UnBrushAllDocs();
+                        })}>
                         <input style={{ width: 30 }} className="button-input" type="number" value={checkResult} onChange={undoBatch(action(e => setValue(Number(e.target.value))))} />
                     </div>
                     <div className={`button`} onClick={action(e => setValue(Number(checkResult) + 1))}>
@@ -215,6 +224,7 @@ export class FontIconBox extends DocComponent<ButtonProps>() {
                                 onClick={e => {
                                     e.stopPropagation();
                                     this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = false;
+                                    Doc.UnBrushAllDocs();
                                 }}
                             />
                         </div>
@@ -237,7 +247,10 @@ export class FontIconBox extends DocComponent<ButtonProps>() {
             <div
                 className={`menuButton ${this.type} ${active}`}
                 style={{ color: color, backgroundColor: backgroundColor, borderBottomLeftRadius: this.dropdown ? 0 : undefined }}
-                onClick={action(() => (this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen))}>
+                onClick={action(() => {
+                    this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen;
+                    Doc.UnBrushAllDocs();
+                })}>
                 {this.Icon(color)}
                 {!this.label || !FontIconBox.GetShowLabels() ? null : (
                     <div className="fontIconBox-label" style={{ color: color, backgroundColor: backgroundColor }}>
@@ -316,7 +329,14 @@ export class FontIconBox extends DocComponent<ButtonProps>() {
             <div
                 className={`menuButton ${this.type} ${active}`}
                 style={{ backgroundColor: this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen ? Colors.MEDIUM_BLUE : backgroundColor, color: color, display: dropdown ? undefined : 'flex' }}
-                onClick={dropdown ? () => (this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen) : undefined}>
+                onClick={
+                    dropdown
+                        ? () => {
+                              this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen;
+                              Doc.UnBrushAllDocs();
+                          }
+                        : undefined
+                }>
                 {dropdown ? null : <FontAwesomeIcon style={{ marginLeft: 5 }} className={`fontIconBox-icon-${this.type}`} icon={icon} color={color} />}
                 <div className="menuButton-dropdown-header">{text && text[0].toUpperCase() + text.slice(1)}</div>
                 {label}
@@ -335,6 +355,7 @@ export class FontIconBox extends DocComponent<ButtonProps>() {
                             onClick={e => {
                                 e.stopPropagation();
                                 this.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = false;
+                                Doc.UnBrushAllDocs();
                             }}
                         />
                     </div>
@@ -379,6 +400,7 @@ export class FontIconBox extends DocComponent<ButtonProps>() {
                 style={{ color: color, borderBottomLeftRadius: this.dropdown ? 0 : undefined }}
                 onClick={action(e => {
                     this.colorPickerClosed = !this.colorPickerClosed;
+                    setTimeout(() => Doc.UnBrushAllDocs());
                     e.stopPropagation();
                 })}
                 onPointerDown={e => e.stopPropagation()}>
@@ -397,6 +419,7 @@ export class FontIconBox extends DocComponent<ButtonProps>() {
                                 e.preventDefault();
                                 e.stopPropagation();
                                 this.colorPickerClosed = true;
+                                Doc.UnBrushAllDocs();
                             })}
                         />
                     </div>
@@ -587,32 +610,43 @@ ScriptingGlobals.add(function toggleOverlay(checkResult?: boolean) {
     selected ? selected.props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.().float() : console.log('[FontIconBox.tsx] toggleOverlay failed');
 });
 
-ScriptingGlobals.add(function showFreeform(attr: 'grid' | 'snap lines' | 'clusters' | 'viewAll', checkResult?: boolean) {
+ScriptingGlobals.add(function showFreeform(attr: 'grid' | 'snap lines' | 'clusters' | 'arrange' | 'viewAll', checkResult?: boolean) {
     const selected = SelectionManager.Docs().lastElement();
     // prettier-ignore
-    const map: Map<'grid' | 'snap lines' | 'clusters' | 'viewAll', { checkResult: (doc:Doc) => any; setDoc: (doc:Doc) => void;}> = new Map([
+    const map: Map<'grid' | 'snap lines' | 'clusters' | 'arrange'| 'viewAll', { undo: boolean, checkResult: (doc:Doc) => any; setDoc: (doc:Doc) => void;}> = new Map([
         ['grid', {
+            undo: false,
             checkResult: (doc:Doc) => doc._backgroundGridShow,
             setDoc: (doc:Doc) => doc._backgroundGridShow = !doc._backgroundGridShow,
         }],
         ['snap lines', {
+            undo: false,
             checkResult: (doc:Doc) => doc.showSnapLines,
             setDoc: (doc:Doc) => doc._showSnapLines = !doc._showSnapLines,
         }],
         ['viewAll', {
+            undo: false,
             checkResult: (doc:Doc) => doc._fitContentsToBox,
             setDoc: (doc:Doc) => doc._fitContentsToBox = !doc._fitContentsToBox,
         }],
         ['clusters', {
+            undo: false,
             checkResult: (doc:Doc) => doc._useClusters,
             setDoc: (doc:Doc) => doc._useClusters = !doc._useClusters,
         }],
+        ['arrange', {
+            undo: true,
+            checkResult: (doc:Doc) => doc._autoArrange,
+            setDoc: (doc:Doc) => doc._autoArrange = !doc._autoArrange,
+        }],
     ]);
 
     if (checkResult) {
         return map.get(attr)?.checkResult(selected) ? Colors.MEDIUM_BLUE : 'transparent';
     }
+    const batch = map.get(attr)?.undo ? UndoManager.StartBatch('set feature') : { end: () => {} };
     SelectionManager.Docs().map(dv => map.get(attr)?.setDoc(dv));
+    setTimeout(() => batch.end(), 100);
 });
 ScriptingGlobals.add(function setFontAttr(attr: 'font' | 'fontColor' | 'highlight' | 'fontSize', value: any, checkResult?: boolean) {
     const editorView = RichTextMenu.Instance?.TextView?.EditorView;
@@ -805,7 +839,7 @@ ScriptingGlobals.add(function setInkProperty(option: 'inkMask' | 'fillColor' | '
             setMode: () => selected?.type !== DocumentType.INK && SetActiveIsInkMask(!ActiveIsInkMask()),
         }],
         ['fillColor', {
-            checkResult: () => (selected?.type === DocumentType.INK ? StrCast(selected.fillColor) : ActiveFillColor() ? Colors.MEDIUM_BLUE : 'transparent'),
+            checkResult: () => (selected?.type === DocumentType.INK ? StrCast(selected.fillColor) : ActiveFillColor() ?? "transparent"),
             setInk: (doc: Doc) => (doc.fillColor = StrCast(value)),
             setMode: () => SetActiveFillColor(StrCast(value)),
         }],
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/button/colorDropdown/ColorDropdown.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/button/colorDropdown/ColorDropdown.tsx
index 7f414ddbb..74c3c563c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/button/colorDropdown/ColorDropdown.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/button/colorDropdown/ColorDropdown.tsx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export class ColorDropdown extends Component<IButtonProps> {
         const active: string = StrCast(this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen);
 
         const script: string = StrCast(this.props.rootDoc.script);
-        const scriptCheck: string = script + "(undefined, true)";
+        const scriptCheck: string = script + '(undefined, true)';
         const boolResult = ScriptField.MakeScript(scriptCheck)?.script.run().result;
 
         const stroke: boolean = false;
@@ -24,24 +24,21 @@ export class ColorDropdown extends Component<IButtonProps> {
         //     strokeIcon = (<div style={{ borderRadius: "100%", width: width + '%', height: height + '%', backgroundColor: boolResult ? boolResult : "#FFFFFF" }} />);
         // }
 
-        const colorOptions: string[] = ['#D0021B', '#F5A623', '#F8E71C', '#8B572A', '#7ED321', '#417505',
-            '#9013FE', '#4A90E2', '#50E3C2', '#B8E986', '#000000', '#4A4A4A', '#9B9B9B',
-            '#FFFFFF', '#f1efeb'];
+        const colorOptions: string[] = ['#D0021B', '#F5A623', '#F8E71C', '#8B572A', '#7ED321', '#417505', '#9013FE', '#4A90E2', '#50E3C2', '#B8E986', '#000000', '#4A4A4A', '#9B9B9B', '#FFFFFF', '#f1efeb'];
 
-        const colorBox = (func: (color: ColorState) => void) => <SketchPicker
-            disableAlpha={!stroke}
-            onChange={func} color={boolResult ? boolResult : "#FFFFFF"}
-            presetColors={colorOptions} />;
-        const label = !this.props.label || !FontIconBox.GetShowLabels() ? (null) :
-            <div className="fontIconBox-label" style={{ color: this.props.color, backgroundColor: this.props.backgroundColor, position: "absolute" }}>
-                {this.props.label}
-            </div>;
+        const colorBox = (func: (color: ColorState) => void) => <SketchPicker disableAlpha={!stroke} onChange={func} color={boolResult ? boolResult : '#FFFFFF'} presetColors={colorOptions} />;
+        const label =
+            !this.props.label || !FontIconBox.GetShowLabels() ? null : (
+                <div className="fontIconBox-label" style={{ color: this.props.color, backgroundColor: this.props.backgroundColor, position: 'absolute' }}>
+                    {this.props.label}
+                </div>
+            );
 
-        const dropdownCaret = <div
-            className="menuButton-dropDown"
-            style={{ borderBottomRightRadius: active ? 0 : undefined }}>
-            <FontAwesomeIcon icon={'caret-down'} color={this.props.color} size="sm" />
-        </div>;
+        const dropdownCaret = (
+            <div className="menuButton-dropDown" style={{ borderBottomRightRadius: active ? 0 : undefined }}>
+                <FontAwesomeIcon icon={'caret-down'} color={this.props.color} size="sm" />
+            </div>
+        );
 
         const click = (value: ColorState) => {
             const hex: string = value.hex;
@@ -51,26 +48,30 @@ export class ColorDropdown extends Component<IButtonProps> {
             }
         };
         return (
-            <div className={`menuButton ${this.props.type} ${active}`}
+            <div
+                className={`menuButton ${this.props.type} ${active}`}
                 style={{ color: this.props.color, borderBottomLeftRadius: active ? 0 : undefined }}
-                onClick={() => this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen}
+                onClick={() => (this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = !this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen)}
                 onPointerDown={e => e.stopPropagation()}>
                 <FontAwesomeIcon className={`fontIconBox-icon-${this.props.type}`} icon={this.props.icon} color={this.props.color} />
-                <div className="colorButton-color"
-                    style={{ backgroundColor: boolResult ? boolResult : "#FFFFFF" }} />
+                <div className="colorButton-color" style={{ backgroundColor: boolResult ? boolResult : '#FFFFFF' }} />
                 {label}
                 {/* {dropdownCaret} */}
-                {this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen ?
+                {this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen ? (
                     <div>
-                        <div className="menuButton-dropdownBox"
-                            onPointerDown={e => e.stopPropagation()}
-                            onClick={e => e.stopPropagation()}>
+                        <div className="menuButton-dropdownBox" onPointerDown={e => e.stopPropagation()} onClick={e => e.stopPropagation()}>
                             {colorBox(click)}
                         </div>
-                        <div className="dropbox-background" onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = false; }} />
+                        <div
+                            className="dropbox-background"
+                            onClick={e => {
+                                e.stopPropagation();
+                                this.props.rootDoc.dropDownOpen = false;
+                            }}
+                        />
                     </div>
-                    : null}
+                ) : null}
             </div>
         );
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
index ee4249b02..361e000f9 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import { RichTextUtils } from '../../../../fields/RichTextUtils';
 import { ComputedField } from '../../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, FieldValue, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../../fields/Types';
 import { GetEffectiveAcl, TraceMobx } from '../../../../fields/util';
-import { addStyleSheet, addStyleSheetRule, clearStyleSheetRules, emptyFunction, numberRange, OmitKeys, returnFalse, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScroll, unimplementedFunction, Utils } from '../../../../Utils';
+import { addStyleSheet, addStyleSheetRule, clearStyleSheetRules, emptyFunction, numberRange, returnFalse, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, smoothScroll, unimplementedFunction, Utils } from '../../../../Utils';
 import { GoogleApiClientUtils, Pulls, Pushes } from '../../../apis/google_docs/GoogleApiClientUtils';
 import { DocServer } from '../../../DocServer';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../../documents/Documents';
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps
                             alink =
                                 alink ??
                                 (LinkManager.Links(this.Document).find(link => Doc.AreProtosEqual(Cast(link.anchor1, Doc, null), this.rootDoc) && Doc.AreProtosEqual(Cast(link.anchor2, Doc, null), target)) ||
-                                    DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: this.props.Document }, { doc: target }, LinkManager.AutoKeywords)!);
+                                    DocUtils.MakeLink(this.props.Document, target, { linkRelationship: LinkManager.AutoKeywords })!);
                             newAutoLinks.add(alink);
                             const allAnchors = [{ href: Doc.localServerPath(target), title: 'a link', anchorId: this.props.Document[Id] }];
                             allAnchors.push(...(node.marks.find((m: Mark) => m.type.name === schema.marks.autoLinkAnchor.name)?.attrs.allAnchors ?? []));
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps
                         ]),
                     ]);
 
-                    const link = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: pdfAnchor }, { doc: this.rootDoc }, 'PDF pasted');
+                    const link = DocUtils.MakeLink(pdfAnchor, this.rootDoc, { linkRelationship: 'PDF pasted' });
                     if (link) {
                         view.dispatch(view.state.tr.replaceSelectionWith(dashField, false).scrollIntoView().setMeta('paste', true).setMeta('uiEvent', 'paste'));
                     }
@@ -1739,12 +1739,10 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps
             }
         }
     };
-    fitContentsToBox = () => this.props.Document._fitContentsToBox;
+    fitContentsToBox = () => BoolCast(this.props.Document._fitContentsToBox);
     sidebarContentScaling = () => (this.props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1) * NumCast(this.layoutDoc._viewScale, 1);
     sidebarAddDocument = (doc: Doc | Doc[], sidebarKey: string = this.SidebarKey) => {
         if (!this.layoutDoc._showSidebar) this.toggleSidebar();
-        // console.log("printting allSideBarDocs");
-        // console.log(this.allSidebarDocs);
         return this.addDocument(doc, sidebarKey);
     };
     sidebarMoveDocument = (doc: Doc | Doc[], targetCollection: Doc | undefined, addDocument: (doc: Doc | Doc[]) => boolean) => this.moveDocument(doc, targetCollection, addDocument, this.SidebarKey);
@@ -1785,8 +1783,8 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps
                 className="formattedTextBox-sidebar-handle"
                 onPointerDown={this.sidebarDown}
                 style={{
-                    backgroundColor: backgroundColor,
-                    color: color,
+                    backgroundColor,
+                    color,
                     opacity: annotated ? 1 : undefined,
                 }}>
                 <FontAwesomeIcon icon={'comment-alt'} />
@@ -1800,33 +1798,36 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps
                 <SidebarAnnos
                     ref={this._sidebarRef}
                     {...this.props}
-                    fieldKey={this.fieldKey}
                     rootDoc={this.rootDoc}
                     layoutDoc={this.layoutDoc}
                     dataDoc={this.dataDoc}
-                    ScreenToLocalTransform={this.sidebarScreenToLocal}
+                    usePanelWidth={true}
                     nativeWidth={NumCast(this.layoutDoc._nativeWidth)}
-                    whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
                     showSidebar={this.SidebarShown}
-                    PanelWidth={this.sidebarWidth}
-                    setHeight={this.setSidebarHeight}
+                    whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
                     sidebarAddDocument={this.sidebarAddDocument}
                     moveDocument={this.moveDocument}
                     removeDocument={this.removeDocument}
+                    ScreenToLocalTransform={this.sidebarScreenToLocal}
+                    fieldKey={this.fieldKey}
+                    PanelWidth={this.sidebarWidth}
+                    setHeight={this.setSidebarHeight}
                 />
             ) : (
                 <div onPointerDown={e => setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, returnFalse, emptyFunction, () => SelectionManager.SelectView(this.props.DocumentView?.()!, false), true)}>
                     <ComponentTag
-                        {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
+                        {...this.props}
+                        setContentView={emptyFunction}
                         NativeWidth={returnZero}
                         NativeHeight={returnZero}
                         PanelHeight={this.props.PanelHeight}
                         PanelWidth={this.sidebarWidth}
                         xPadding={0}
                         yPadding={0}
-                        scaleField={this.SidebarKey + '-scale'}
+                        viewField={this.SidebarKey}
                         isAnnotationOverlay={false}
                         select={emptyFunction}
+                        isAnyChildContentActive={returnFalse}
                         NativeDimScaling={this.sidebarContentScaling}
                         whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
                         removeDocument={this.sidebarRemDocument}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/RichTextRules.ts b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/RichTextRules.ts
index 9e9b61db3..e691869cc 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/RichTextRules.ts
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/RichTextRules.ts
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ export class RichTextRules {
                                 this.TextBox.EditorView?.dispatch(rstate.tr.setSelection(new TextSelection(rstate.doc.resolve(start), rstate.doc.resolve(end - 3))));
                             }
                             const target = (docx instanceof Doc && docx) || Docs.Create.FreeformDocument([], { title: docId, _width: 500, _height: 500 }, docId);
-                            DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: this.TextBox.getAnchor(true) }, { doc: target }, 'portal to:portal from', undefined);
+                            DocUtils.MakeLink(this.TextBox.getAnchor(true), target, { linkRelationship: 'portal to:portal from' });
 
                             const fstate = this.TextBox.EditorView?.state;
                             if (fstate && selection) {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
index 0afb36214..3589a9065 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
 import { Tooltip } from '@material-ui/core';
 import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, observable, ObservableSet, reaction, runInAction } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
-import { AnimationSym, Doc, DocListCast, FieldResult, Opt, StrListCast } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
+import { AnimationSym, Doc, DocListCast, Field, FieldResult, Opt, StrListCast } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Copy, Id } from '../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { InkField, InkTool } from '../../../../fields/InkField';
 import { List } from '../../../../fields/List';
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ const { Howl } = require('howler');
 
 export interface pinDataTypes {
     scrollable?: boolean;
+    dataviz?: number[];
     pannable?: boolean;
     viewType?: boolean;
     inkable?: boolean;
@@ -59,7 +60,6 @@ export interface PinProps {
     hidePresBox?: boolean;
     pinViewport?: MarqueeViewBounds; // pin a specific viewport on a freeform view (use MarqueeView.CurViewBounds to compute if no region has been selected)
     pinDocLayout?: boolean; // pin layout info (width/height/x/y)
-    pinDocContent?: boolean; // pin data info (scroll/pan/zoom/text)
     pinAudioPlay?: boolean; // pin audio annotation
     pinData?: pinDataTypes;
 }
@@ -492,6 +492,9 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
                 changed = true;
             }
         }
+        if (bestTargetView?.ComponentView?.restoreView?.(activeItem)) {
+            changed = true;
+        }
 
         if (pinDataTypes?.scrollable || (!pinDataTypes && activeItem.presViewScroll !== undefined)) {
             if (bestTarget._scrollTop !== activeItem.presViewScroll) {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
index 698a2817e..9a74b5dba 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ export class PresElementBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     @action
     updateCapturedViewContents = (presTargetDoc: Doc, activeItem: Doc) => {
         const target = DocCast(presTargetDoc.annotationOn) ?? presTargetDoc;
-        PresBox.pinDocView(activeItem, { pinDocContent: true, pinData: PresBox.pinDataTypes(target) }, target);
+        PresBox.pinDocView(activeItem, { pinData: PresBox.pinDataTypes(target) }, target);
     };
 
     @computed get recordingIsInOverlay() {
diff --git a/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx b/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
index c5060a2c2..6ab541207 100644
--- a/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { InkTool } from '../../../fields/InkField';
 import { Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
-import { addStyleSheet, addStyleSheetRule, clearStyleSheetRules, emptyFunction, OmitKeys, returnNone, smoothScroll, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
+import { addStyleSheet, addStyleSheetRule, clearStyleSheetRules, emptyFunction, returnAll, returnFalse, returnNone, returnTrue, returnZero, smoothScroll, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
 import { SelectionManager } from '../../util/SelectionManager';
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { SnappingManager } from '../../util/SnappingManager';
 import { MarqueeOptionsMenu } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView';
 import { MarqueeAnnotator } from '../MarqueeAnnotator';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentViewProps, OpenWhere } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentViewProps } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { LinkDocPreview } from '../nodes/LinkDocPreview';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ export class PDFViewer extends React.Component<IViewerProps> {
         return this.props.styleProvider?.(doc, props, property);
     };
 
-    renderAnnotations = (docFilters?: () => string[], mixBlendMode?: any, display?: string) => (
+    renderAnnotations = (docFilters: () => string[], mixBlendMode?: any, display?: string) => (
         <div
             className="pdfViewerDash-overlay"
             style={{
@@ -522,9 +522,12 @@ export class PDFViewer extends React.Component<IViewerProps> {
                 pointerEvents: Doc.ActiveTool !== InkTool.None ? 'all' : undefined,
             }}>
             <CollectionFreeFormView
-                {...OmitKeys(this.props, ['NativeWidth', 'NativeHeight', 'setContentView']).omit}
+                {...this.props}
+                NativeWidth={returnZero}
+                NativeHeight={returnZero}
+                setContentView={emptyFunction} // override setContentView to do nothing
+                pointerEvents={SnappingManager.GetIsDragging() ? returnAll : returnNone}
                 renderDepth={this.props.renderDepth + 1}
-                pointerEvents={returnNone}
                 isAnnotationOverlay={true}
                 fieldKey={this.props.fieldKey + '-annotations'}
                 CollectionView={undefined}
@@ -534,6 +537,8 @@ export class PDFViewer extends React.Component<IViewerProps> {
                 PanelHeight={this.panelHeight}
                 PanelWidth={this.panelWidth}
                 ScreenToLocalTransform={this.overlayTransform}
+                isAnyChildContentActive={returnFalse}
+                isAnnotationOverlayScrollable={true}
                 dropAction={'alias'}
                 docFilters={docFilters}
                 select={emptyFunction}
diff --git a/src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx b/src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx
index fe9b13fbe..8f93f1150 100644
--- a/src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ export class SearchBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<SearchBoxProps>() {
     makeLink = action((linkTo: Doc) => {
         const linkFrom = this.props.linkCreateAnchor?.();
         if (linkFrom) {
-            const link = DocUtils.MakeLink({ doc: linkFrom }, { doc: linkTo });
+            const link = DocUtils.MakeLink(linkFrom, linkTo, {});
             link && this.props.linkCreated?.(link);
         }
     });
diff --git a/src/fields/Doc.ts b/src/fields/Doc.ts
index 553c4525c..1db56cbdd 100644
--- a/src/fields/Doc.ts
+++ b/src/fields/Doc.ts
@@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
         return doc[StrCast(doc.layoutKey, 'layout')];
     }
     export function LayoutFieldKey(doc: Doc): string {
-        return StrCast(Doc.Layout(doc).layout).split("'")[1];
+        return StrCast(Doc.Layout(doc)[StrCast(doc.layoutKey, 'layout')]).split("'")[1]; // bcz: TODO check on this .  used to always reference 'layout', now it uses the layout speicfied by the current layoutKey
     }
     export function NativeAspect(doc: Doc, dataDoc?: Doc, useDim?: boolean) {
         return Doc.NativeWidth(doc, dataDoc, useDim) / (Doc.NativeHeight(doc, dataDoc, useDim) || 1);
@@ -1222,9 +1222,10 @@ export namespace Doc {
         return !doc ? 0 : NumCast(doc._nativeWidth, NumCast((dataDoc || doc)[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc) + '-nativeWidth'], useWidth ? doc[WidthSym]() : 0));
     }
     export function NativeHeight(doc?: Doc, dataDoc?: Doc, useHeight?: boolean) {
-        const dheight = doc ? NumCast((dataDoc || doc)[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc) + '-nativeHeight'], useHeight ? doc[HeightSym]() : 0) : 0;
-        const nheight = doc ? (Doc.NativeWidth(doc, dataDoc, useHeight) * doc[HeightSym]()) / doc[WidthSym]() : 0;
-        return !doc ? 0 : NumCast(doc._nativeHeight, nheight || dheight);
+        if (!doc) return 0;
+        const nheight = (Doc.NativeWidth(doc, dataDoc, useHeight) * doc[HeightSym]()) / doc[WidthSym]();
+        const dheight = NumCast((dataDoc || doc)[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc) + '-nativeHeight'], useHeight ? doc[HeightSym]() : 0);
+        return NumCast(doc._nativeHeight, nheight || dheight);
     }
     export function SetNativeWidth(doc: Doc, width: number | undefined, fieldKey?: string) {
         doc[(fieldKey ?? Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc)) + '-nativeWidth'] = width;
@@ -1334,6 +1335,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
     }
 
     export function LinkEndpoint(linkDoc: Doc, anchorDoc: Doc) {
+        if (linkDoc.anchor2 === anchorDoc || (linkDoc.anchor2 as Doc).annotationOn) return '2';
         return Doc.AreProtosEqual(anchorDoc, (linkDoc.anchor1 as Doc).annotationOn as Doc) || Doc.AreProtosEqual(anchorDoc, linkDoc.anchor1 as Doc) ? '1' : '2';
     }
 
@@ -1392,7 +1394,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
         });
     }
     export function UnBrushAllDocs() {
-        brushManager.BrushedDoc.clear();
+        runInAction(() => brushManager.BrushedDoc.clear());
     }
 
     export function getDocTemplate(doc?: Doc) {
diff --git a/src/server/ApiManagers/DataVizManager.ts b/src/server/ApiManagers/DataVizManager.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d43130d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/server/ApiManagers/DataVizManager.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { csvParser, csvToString } from "../DataVizUtils";
+import { Method, _success } from "../RouteManager";
+import ApiManager, { Registration } from "./ApiManager";
+import { Directory, serverPathToFile } from "./UploadManager";
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+export default class DataVizManager extends ApiManager {
+    protected initialize(register: Registration): void {
+        register({
+            method: Method.GET,
+            subscription: "/csvData",
+            secureHandler: async ({ req, res }) => {
+                const uri = req.query.uri as string;
+
+                return new Promise<void>(resolve => {
+                    const name = path.basename(uri);
+                    const sPath = serverPathToFile(Directory.csv, name);
+                    const parsedCsv = csvParser(csvToString(sPath));
+                    _success(res, parsedCsv);
+                    resolve();
+                });
+            }
+        });
+    }
+    
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/server/DataVizUtils.ts b/src/server/DataVizUtils.ts
index 4fd0ca6ff..15f03b319 100644
--- a/src/server/DataVizUtils.ts
+++ b/src/server/DataVizUtils.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
+
 export function csvParser(csv: string) {
-    const lines = csv.split("\n");
-    const headers = lines[0].split(",");
-    const data = lines.slice(1).map(line => {
-        const values = line.split(",");
-        const obj: any = {};
-        for (let i = 0; i < headers.length; i++) {
-            obj[headers[i]] = values[i];
-        }
-        return obj;
-    });
+    const lines = csv.split('\n');
+    const headers = lines[0].split(',').map(header => header.trim());
+    const data = lines.slice(1).map(line =>
+        line.split(',').reduce((last, value, i) => {
+            last[headers[i]] = value.trim();
+            return last;
+        }, {} as any)
+    );
     return data;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+
+export function csvToString(path: string) {
+    return readFileSync(path, 'utf8');
+}
diff --git a/src/server/index.ts b/src/server/index.ts
index 6e6bde3cb..6562860fe 100644
--- a/src/server/index.ts
+++ b/src/server/index.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import * as mobileDetect from 'mobile-detect';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import * as qs from 'query-string';
 import { log_execution } from './ActionUtilities';
+import DataVizManager from './ApiManagers/DataVizManager';
 import DeleteManager from './ApiManagers/DeleteManager';
 import DownloadManager from './ApiManagers/DownloadManager';
 import GeneralGoogleManager from './ApiManagers/GeneralGoogleManager';
@@ -62,7 +63,19 @@ async function preliminaryFunctions() {
  * with the server
  */
 function routeSetter({ isRelease, addSupervisedRoute, logRegistrationOutcome }: RouteManager) {
-    const managers = [new SessionManager(), new UserManager(), new UploadManager(), new DownloadManager(), new SearchManager(), new PDFManager(), new DeleteManager(), new UtilManager(), new GeneralGoogleManager(), new GooglePhotosManager()];
+    const managers = [
+        new SessionManager(),
+        new UserManager(),
+        new UploadManager(),
+        new DownloadManager(),
+        new SearchManager(),
+        new PDFManager(),
+        new DeleteManager(),
+        new UtilManager(),
+        new GeneralGoogleManager(),
+        new GooglePhotosManager(),
+        new DataVizManager(),
+    ];
 
     // initialize API Managers
     console.log(yellow('\nregistering server routes...'));