1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
index 56a14e26e..745520bc4 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
@@ -49,12 +49,11 @@ export class DocumentContentsView extends React.Component<DocumentViewProps & {
     hideOnLeave?: boolean
 }> {
     @computed get layout(): string {
-        let layoutDoc = this.props.Document.layout instanceof Doc ? this.props.Document.layout : this.props.Document;
-        const layout = Cast(layoutDoc[this.props.layoutKey], "string");
+        const layout = Cast(this.layoutDoc[this.props.layoutKey], "string");
         if (layout === undefined) {
             return this.props.Document.data ?
                 "<FieldView {...props} fieldKey='data' />" :
-                KeyValueBox.LayoutString(layoutDoc.proto ? "proto" : "");
+                KeyValueBox.LayoutString(this.layoutDoc.proto ? "proto" : "");
         } else if (typeof layout === "string") {
             return layout;
         } else {
@@ -62,8 +61,23 @@ export class DocumentContentsView extends React.Component<DocumentViewProps & {
         }
     }
 
-    CreateBindings(layoutDoc?: Doc): JsxBindings {
-        return { props: { ...OmitKeys(this.props, ['parentActive'], (obj: any) => obj.active = this.props.parentActive).omit, Document: layoutDoc } };
+    get dataDoc() {
+        if (this.props.DataDoc === undefined && this.props.Document.layout instanceof Doc) {
+            // if there is no dataDoc (ie, we're not rendering a temlplate layout), but this document
+            // has a template layout document, then we will render the template layout but use 
+            // this document as the data document for the layout.
+            return this.props.Document;
+        }
+        return this.props.DataDoc
+    }
+    get layoutDoc() {
+        // if this document's layout field contains a document (ie, a rendering template), then we will use that
+        // to determine the render JSX string, otherwise the layout field should directly contain a JSX layout string.
+        return this.props.Document.layout instanceof Doc ? this.props.Document.layout : this.props.Document;
+    }
+
+    CreateBindings(): JsxBindings {
+        return { props: { ...OmitKeys(this.props, ['parentActive'], (obj: any) => obj.active = this.props.parentActive).omit, Document: this.layoutDoc, DataDoc: this.dataDoc } };
     }
 
     @computed get templates(): List<string> {
@@ -105,11 +119,12 @@ export class DocumentContentsView extends React.Component<DocumentViewProps & {
     }
 
     render() {
+        let self = this;
         if (this.props.renderDepth > 7) return (null);
         if (!this.layout && (this.props.layoutKey !== "overlayLayout" || !this.templates.length)) return (null);
         return <ObserverJsxParser
             components={{ FormattedTextBox, ImageBox, IconBox, FieldView, CollectionFreeFormView, CollectionDockingView, CollectionSchemaView, CollectionView, CollectionPDFView, CollectionVideoView, WebBox, KeyValueBox, PDFBox, VideoBox, AudioBox, HistogramBox }}
-            bindings={this.CreateBindings(this.props.Document.layout instanceof Doc ? this.props.Document.layout : this.props.Document)}
+            bindings={this.CreateBindings()}
             jsx={this.finalLayout}
             showWarnings={true}
             onError={(test: any) => { console.log(test); }}