1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
index d09d9b9d7..b5d9ebd9f 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ export type collectionFreeformViewProps = {
     scaleField?: string;
     noOverlay?: boolean; // used to suppress docs in the overlay (z) layer (ie, for minimap since overlay doesn't scale)
     engineProps?: any;
+    dontRenderDocuments?: boolean; // used for annotation overlays which need to distribute documents into different freeformviews with different mixBlendModes depending on whether they are trnasparent or not.  
+    // However, this screws up interactions since only the top layer gets events.  so we render the freeformview a 3rd time with all documents in order to get interaction events (eg., marquee) but we don't actually want to display the documents.
 };
 
 @observer
@@ -1452,7 +1454,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<PanZoomDocument, P
             getContainerTransform={this.getContainerTransform}
             getTransform={this.getTransform}
             isAnnotationOverlay={this.isAnnotationOverlay}>
-            <div ref={this._marqueeRef}>
+            <div ref={this._marqueeRef} style={{ display: this.props.dontRenderDocuments ? "none" : undefined }}>
                 {this.layoutDoc["_backgroundGrid-show"] ? this.backgroundGrid : (null)}
                 <CollectionFreeFormViewPannableContents
                     isAnnotationOverlay={this.isAnnotationOverlay}