2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
index 8938541ac..53b2d5254 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ export class DockedFrameRenderer extends React.Component<DockedFrameProps> {
     @computed get miniTop() { return 50 + (NumCast(this._document?._panY) - this.renderContentBounds.cy) / this.renderContentBounds.dim * 100 - this.miniHeight / 2; }
     @computed get miniWidth() { return this.panelWidth() / NumCast(this._document?._viewScale, 1) / this.renderContentBounds.dim * 100; }
     @computed get miniHeight() { return this.panelHeight() / NumCast(this._document?._viewScale, 1) / this.renderContentBounds.dim * 100; }
+    childLayoutTemplate = () => Cast(this._document?.childLayoutTemplate, Doc, null);
     returnMiniSize = () => NumCast(this._document?._miniMapSize, 150);
     miniDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
         setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, action((e: PointerEvent, down: number[], delta: number[]) => {
@@ -848,6 +849,8 @@ export class DockedFrameRenderer extends React.Component<DockedFrameProps> {
                 CollectionView={undefined}
                 ContainingCollectionView={undefined}
                 ContainingCollectionDoc={undefined}
+                ChildLayoutTemplate={this.childLayoutTemplate} // bcz: Ugh .. should probably be rendering a CollectionView or the minimap should be part of the collectionFreeFormView to avoid havin to set stuff like this.
+                noOverlay={true} // don't render overlay Docs since they won't scale
                 active={returnTrue}
                 select={emptyFunction}
                 dropAction={undefined}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
index e119910bd..01b0c81d8 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ export type collectionFreeformViewProps = {
     forceScaling?: boolean; // whether to force scaling of content (needed by ImageBox)
     viewDefDivClick?: ScriptField;
     childPointerEvents?: boolean;
-    scaleField?: string;
+    scaleField?: string; // used by formattedTextBox when displaying a sidebar freeform view which needs its own scale field
+    noOverlay?: boolean; // used to suppress docs in the overlay (z) layer (ie, for minimap since overlay doesn't scale)
 };
 
 @observer
@@ -1444,7 +1445,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<PanZoomDocument, P
             }}>
             {this.Document._freeformLOD && !this.props.active() && !this.props.isAnnotationOverlay && !this.props.annotationsKey && this.props.renderDepth > 0 ?
                 this.placeholder : this.marqueeView}
-            <CollectionFreeFormOverlayView elements={this.elementFunc} />
+            {!this.props.noOverlay ? <CollectionFreeFormOverlayView elements={this.elementFunc} /> : (null)}
 
             <div className={"pullpane-indicator"}
                 style={{