cleaning up of following inPlace links to overlay current inplaceContainer contents instead of deleting them.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
index b75f315ca..01872df84 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
@@ -358,7 +358,17 @@ export class TabDocView extends React.Component<TabDocViewProps> {
         if (doc.dockingConfig) return DashboardView.openDashboard(doc);
         // prettier-ignore
         switch (whereFields[0]) {
-            case OpenWhere.inPlace:  // fall through to lightbox
+            case undefined:
+            case OpenWhere.inPlace:    {
+                if (this.layoutDoc?.isInPlaceContainer) {
+                    const inPlaceView = !doc.annotationOn && DocCast(doc.context) ? DocumentManager.Instance.getFirstDocumentView(DocCast(doc.context)) : undefined;
+                    const data = inPlaceView?.dataDoc[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(inPlaceView.rootDoc)];
+                    if (inPlaceView && (!data || data instanceof List)) {
+                        inPlaceView.layoutDoc[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(inPlaceView.rootDoc)] = new List<Doc>([doc]);
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
             case OpenWhere.lightbox:   return LightboxView.AddDocTab(doc, location);
             case OpenWhere.dashboard:  return DashboardView.openDashboard(doc);
             case OpenWhere.fullScreen: return CollectionDockingView.OpenFullScreen(doc);