1 files changed, 21 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/documents/Documents.ts b/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
index 652f8e7e0..465cdf3ec 100644
--- a/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
+++ b/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ export class DocumentOptions {
     dockingConfig?: string;
     annotationOn?: Doc;
     isPushpin?: boolean;
+    isGroup?: boolean; // whether a collection should use a grouping UI behavior
     _removeDropProperties?: List<string>; // list of properties that should be removed from a document when it is dropped.  e.g., a creator button may be forceActive to allow it be dragged, but the forceActive property can be removed from the dropped document
 
     // BACKGROUND GRID
@@ -807,7 +808,7 @@ export namespace Docs {
         }
 
         export function FreeformDocument(documents: Array<Doc>, options: DocumentOptions, id?: string) {
-            const inst = InstanceFromProto(Prototypes.get(DocumentType.COL), new List(documents), { ...options, _viewType: CollectionViewType.Freeform }, id);
+            const inst = InstanceFromProto(Prototypes.get(DocumentType.COL), new List(documents), { _xPadding: 20, _yPadding: 20, ...options, _viewType: CollectionViewType.Freeform }, id);
             documents.map(d => d.context = inst);
             return inst;
         }
@@ -1317,22 +1318,25 @@ export namespace DocUtils {
         const _height = NumCast(doc._height);
         const options = { title: "data", backgroundColor: StrCast(doc.backgroundColor), _autoHeight: true, _width, x: -_width / 2, y: - _height / 2, _showSidebar: false };
 
-        let fieldTemplate: Opt<Doc>;
-        if (doc.data instanceof RichTextField || typeof (doc.data) === "string") {
-            fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.TextDocument("", options);
-        } else if (doc.data instanceof PdfField) {
-            fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.PdfDocument("http://www.msn.com", options);
-        } else if (doc.data instanceof VideoField) {
-            fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.VideoDocument("http://www.cs.brown.edu", options);
-        } else if (doc.data instanceof AudioField) {
-            fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.AudioDocument("http://www.cs.brown.edu", options);
-        } else if (doc.data instanceof ImageField) {
-            fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.ImageDocument("http://www.cs.brown.edu", options);
-        }
-        const docTemplate = docLayoutTemplate || creator?.(fieldTemplate ? [fieldTemplate] : [], { title: customName + "(" + doc.title + ")", isTemplateDoc: true, _width: _width + 20, _height: Math.max(100, _height + 45) });
-
-        fieldTemplate && Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(fieldTemplate, docTemplate ? Doc.GetProto(docTemplate) : docTemplate);
-        docTemplate && Doc.ApplyTemplateTo(docTemplate, doc, customName, undefined);
+        if (docLayoutTemplate) {
+            Doc.ApplyTemplateTo(docLayoutTemplate, doc, customName, undefined);
+        } else {
+            let fieldTemplate: Opt<Doc>;
+            if (doc.data instanceof RichTextField || typeof (doc.data) === "string") {
+                fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.TextDocument("", options);
+            } else if (doc.data instanceof PdfField) {
+                fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.PdfDocument("http://www.msn.com", options);
+            } else if (doc.data instanceof VideoField) {
+                fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.VideoDocument("http://www.cs.brown.edu", options);
+            } else if (doc.data instanceof AudioField) {
+                fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.AudioDocument("http://www.cs.brown.edu", options);
+            } else if (doc.data instanceof ImageField) {
+                fieldTemplate = Docs.Create.ImageDocument("http://www.cs.brown.edu", options);
+            }
+            const docTemplate = creator?.(fieldTemplate ? [fieldTemplate] : [], { title: customName + "(" + doc.title + ")", isTemplateDoc: true, _width: _width + 20, _height: Math.max(100, _height + 45) });
+            fieldTemplate && Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(fieldTemplate, docTemplate ? Doc.GetProto(docTemplate) : docTemplate);
+            docTemplate && Doc.ApplyTemplateTo(docTemplate, doc, customName, undefined);
+        }
     }
     export function makeCustomView(doc: Doc, custom: boolean, layout: string) {
         Doc.setNativeView(doc);