merged with master

24 files changed, 1925 insertions, 787 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
index 6a0404663..39e0dd989 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import * as GoldenLayout from "golden-layout";
 import 'golden-layout/src/css/goldenlayout-base.css';
 import 'golden-layout/src/css/goldenlayout-dark-theme.css';
-import { action, observable, reaction } from "mobx";
+import { action, observable, reaction, trace } from "mobx";
 import { observer } from "mobx-react";
 import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
 import { Document } from "../../../fields/Document";
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ import "./CollectionDockingView.scss";
 import { COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH } from "./CollectionView";
 import React = require("react");
 import { SubCollectionViewProps } from "./CollectionViewBase";
+import { ServerUtils } from "../../../server/ServerUtil";
+import { DragManager } from "../../util/DragManager";
+import { TextField } from "../../../fields/TextField";
 
 @observer
 export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProps> {
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
     private _containerRef = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
     private _fullScreen: any = null;
     private _flush: boolean = false;
+    private _ignoreStateChange = "";
 
     constructor(props: SubCollectionViewProps) {
         super(props);
@@ -43,8 +47,10 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
         (window as any).React = React;
         (window as any).ReactDOM = ReactDOM;
     }
-    public StartOtherDrag(dragDoc: Document, e: any) {
-        this.AddRightSplit(dragDoc, true).contentItems[0].tab._dragListener.onMouseDown({ pageX: e.pageX, pageY: e.pageY, preventDefault: () => { }, button: 0 })
+    public StartOtherDrag(dragDocs: Document[], e: any) {
+        dragDocs.map(dragDoc =>
+            this.AddRightSplit(dragDoc, true).contentItems[0].tab._dragListener.
+                onMouseDown({ pageX: e.pageX, pageY: e.pageY, preventDefault: () => { }, button: 0 }));
     }
 
     @action
@@ -58,6 +64,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
         docconfig.callDownwards('_$init');
         this._goldenLayout._$maximiseItem(docconfig);
         this._fullScreen = docconfig;
+        this._ignoreStateChange = JSON.stringify(this._goldenLayout.toConfig());
         this.stateChanged();
     }
     @action
@@ -66,6 +73,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
             this._goldenLayout._$minimiseItem(this._fullScreen);
             this._goldenLayout.root.contentItems[0].removeChild(this._fullScreen);
             this._fullScreen = null;
+            this._ignoreStateChange = JSON.stringify(this._goldenLayout.toConfig());
             this.stateChanged();
         }
     }
@@ -75,7 +83,6 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
     //
     @action
     public AddRightSplit(document: Document, minimize: boolean = false) {
-        this._goldenLayout.emit('stateChanged');
         let newItemStackConfig = {
             type: 'stack',
             content: [CollectionDockingView.makeDocumentConfig(document)]
@@ -104,7 +111,9 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
         newContentItem.callDownwards('_$init');
         this._goldenLayout.root.callDownwards('setSize', [this._goldenLayout.width, this._goldenLayout.height]);
         this._goldenLayout.emit('stateChanged');
+        this._ignoreStateChange = JSON.stringify(this._goldenLayout.toConfig());
         this.stateChanged();
+
         return newContentItem;
     }
 
@@ -144,15 +153,24 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
         if (this._containerRef.current) {
             reaction(
                 () => this.props.Document.GetText(KeyStore.Data, ""),
-                () => this.setupGoldenLayout(), { fireImmediately: true });
+                () => {
+                    if (!this._goldenLayout || this._ignoreStateChange != JSON.stringify(this._goldenLayout.toConfig())) {
+                        setTimeout(() => this.setupGoldenLayout(), 1);
+                    }
+                    this._ignoreStateChange = "";
+                }, { fireImmediately: true });
 
             window.addEventListener('resize', this.onResize); // bcz: would rather add this event to the parent node, but resize events only come from Window
         }
     }
     componentWillUnmount: () => void = () => {
-        this._goldenLayout.unbind('itemDropped', this.itemDropped);
-        this._goldenLayout.unbind('tabCreated', this.tabCreated);
-        this._goldenLayout.unbind('stackCreated', this.stackCreated);
+        try {
+            this._goldenLayout.unbind('itemDropped', this.itemDropped);
+            this._goldenLayout.unbind('tabCreated', this.tabCreated);
+            this._goldenLayout.unbind('stackCreated', this.stackCreated);
+        } catch (e) {
+
+        }
         this._goldenLayout.destroy();
         this._goldenLayout = null;
         window.removeEventListener('resize', this.onResize);
@@ -175,6 +193,22 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
     @action
     onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent): void => {
         var className = (e.target as any).className;
+        if ((className == "lm_title" || className == "lm_tab lm_active") && (e.ctrlKey || e.altKey)) {
+            e.stopPropagation();
+            e.preventDefault();
+            let docid = (e.target as any).DashDocId;
+            let tab = (e.target as any).parentElement as HTMLElement;
+            Server.GetField(docid, action((f: Opt<Field>) => {
+                if (f instanceof Document)
+                    DragManager.StartDocumentDrag([tab], new DragManager.DocumentDragData([f as Document]),
+                        {
+                            handlers: {
+                                dragComplete: action(() => { }),
+                            },
+                            hideSource: false
+                        })
+            }));
+        }
         if (className == "lm_drag_handle" || className == "lm_close" || className == "lm_maximise" || className == "lm_minimise" || className == "lm_close_tab") {
             this._flush = true;
         }
@@ -193,6 +227,21 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
         this.stateChanged();
     }
     tabCreated = (tab: any) => {
+        if (tab.hasOwnProperty("contentItem") && tab.contentItem.config.type != "stack") {
+            if (tab.titleElement[0].textContent.indexOf("-waiting") != -1) {
+                Server.GetField(tab.contentItem.config.props.documentId, action((f: Opt<Field>) => {
+                    if (f != undefined && f instanceof Document) {
+                        f.GetTAsync(KeyStore.Title, TextField, (tfield) => {
+                            if (tfield != undefined) {
+                                tab.titleElement[0].textContent = f.Title;
+                            }
+                        })
+                    }
+                }));
+                tab.titleElement[0].DashDocId = tab.contentItem.config.props.documentId;
+            }
+            tab.titleElement[0].DashDocId = tab.contentItem.config.props.documentId;
+        }
         tab.closeElement.off('click') //unbind the current click handler
             .click(function () {
                 tab.contentItem.remove();
@@ -208,6 +257,12 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProp
                 stack.remove();
                 //}
             }));
+        stack.header.controlsContainer.find('.lm_popout') //get the close icon
+            .off('click') //unbind the current click handler
+            .click(action(function () {
+                var url = ServerUtils.prepend("/doc/" + stack.contentItems[0].tab.contentItem.config.props.documentId);
+                let win = window.open(url, stack.contentItems[0].tab.title, "width=300,height=400");
+            }));
     }
 
     render() {
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionFreeFormView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionFreeFormView.scss
deleted file mode 100644
index d487cd7ce..000000000
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionFreeFormView.scss
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-.collectionfreeformview-container {
-
-    .collectionfreeformview  > .jsx-parser{
-        position:absolute;
-        height: 100%;
-        width: 100%;
-    }
-        
-    border-style: solid;
-    box-sizing: border-box;
-    position: relative;
-    top: 0;
-    left: 0;
-    width: 100%;
-    height: 100%;
-    overflow: hidden;
-    .collectionfreeformview {
-        position: absolute;
-        top: 0;
-        left: 0;
-        width:100%;
-        height: 100%;
-    }
-}
-.collectionfreeformview-marquee{
-    border-style: dashed;
-    box-sizing: border-box;
-    position: absolute;
-    border-width: 1px;
-    border-color: black;
-}
-.collectionfreeformview-overlay {
-
-    .collectionfreeformview > .jsx-parser{
-        position:absolute;
-        height: 100%;
-    }
-    .formattedTextBox-cont {
-        background:yellow;
-    }
-        
-    border-style: solid;
-    box-sizing: border-box;
-    position: absolute;
-    top: 0;
-    left: 0;
-    width: 100%;
-    height: 100%;
-    overflow: hidden;
-    .collectionfreeformview {
-        position: absolute;
-        top: 0;
-        left: 0;
-        width:100%;
-        height: 100%;
-    }
-}
-
-.border {
-    border-style: solid;
-    box-sizing: border-box;
-    width: 100%;
-    height: 100%;
-}
-
-//this is an animation for the blinking cursor!
-@keyframes blink {
-	0% {opacity: 0}
-	49%{opacity: 0}
-	50% {opacity: 1}
-}
-
-#prevCursor {
-    animation: blink 1s infinite;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index b0cd7e017..000000000
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,394 +0,0 @@
-import { action, computed, observable } from "mobx";
-import { observer } from "mobx-react";
-import { Document } from "../../../fields/Document";
-import { FieldWaiting } from "../../../fields/Field";
-import { KeyStore } from "../../../fields/KeyStore";
-import { ListField } from "../../../fields/ListField";
-import { TextField } from "../../../fields/TextField";
-import { Documents } from "../../documents/Documents";
-import { DragManager } from "../../util/DragManager";
-import { Transform } from "../../util/Transform";
-import { undoBatch } from "../../util/UndoManager";
-import { CollectionDockingView } from "../collections/CollectionDockingView";
-import { CollectionPDFView } from "../collections/CollectionPDFView";
-import { CollectionSchemaView } from "../collections/CollectionSchemaView";
-import { CollectionView } from "../collections/CollectionView";
-import { InkingCanvas } from "../InkingCanvas";
-import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentView } from "../nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView";
-import { DocumentView } from "../nodes/DocumentView";
-import { FormattedTextBox } from "../nodes/FormattedTextBox";
-import { ImageBox } from "../nodes/ImageBox";
-import { KeyValueBox } from "../nodes/KeyValueBox";
-import { PDFBox } from "../nodes/PDFBox";
-import { WebBox } from "../nodes/WebBox";
-import "./CollectionFreeFormView.scss";
-import { COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH } from "./CollectionView";
-import { CollectionViewBase } from "./CollectionViewBase";
-import React = require("react");
-import { SelectionManager } from "../../util/SelectionManager";
-const JsxParser = require('react-jsx-parser').default;//TODO Why does this need to be imported like this?
-
-@observer
-export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionViewBase {
-    private _canvasRef = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
-    @observable
-    private _lastX: number = 0;
-    @observable
-    private _lastY: number = 0;
-    private _selectOnLoaded: string = ""; // id of document that should be selected once it's loaded (used for click-to-type)
-
-    @observable
-    private _downX: number = 0;
-    @observable
-    private _downY: number = 0;
-
-    //determines whether the blinking cursor for indicating whether a text will be made on key down is visible
-    @observable
-    private _previewCursorVisible: boolean = false;
-
-    @computed get panX(): number { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanX, 0) }
-    @computed get panY(): number { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanY, 0) }
-    @computed get scale(): number { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.Scale, 1); }
-    @computed get isAnnotationOverlay() { return this.props.fieldKey.Id === KeyStore.Annotations.Id; } // bcz: ? Why do we need to compare Id's?
-    @computed get nativeWidth() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeWidth, 0); }
-    @computed get nativeHeight() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeHeight, 0); }
-    @computed get zoomScaling() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.Scale, 1); }
-    @computed get centeringShiftX() { return !this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeWidth, 0) ? this.props.panelWidth() / 2 : 0; }  // shift so pan position is at center of window for non-overlay collections
-    @computed get centeringShiftY() { return !this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeHeight, 0) ? this.props.panelHeight() / 2 : 0; }// shift so pan position is at center of window for non-overlay collections
-
-    @undoBatch
-    @action
-    drop = (e: Event, de: DragManager.DropEvent) => {
-        super.drop(e, de);
-        const docView: DocumentView = de.data["documentView"];
-        let doc: Document = docView ? docView.props.Document : de.data["document"];
-        if (doc) {
-            let screenX = de.x - (de.data["xOffset"] as number || 0);
-            let screenY = de.y - (de.data["yOffset"] as number || 0);
-            const [x, y] = this.getTransform().transformPoint(screenX, screenY);
-            doc.SetNumber(KeyStore.X, x);
-            doc.SetNumber(KeyStore.Y, y);
-            this.bringToFront(doc);
-        }
-    }
-
-    @observable
-    _marquee = false;
-
-    @action
-    onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent): void => {
-        if (((e.button === 2 && this.props.active()) || !e.defaultPrevented) && !e.shiftKey &&
-            (!this.isAnnotationOverlay || this.zoomScaling != 1 || e.button == 0)) {
-            document.removeEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove);
-            document.addEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove);
-            document.removeEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp);
-            document.addEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp);
-            this._lastX = e.pageX;
-            this._lastY = e.pageY;
-            this._downX = e.pageX;
-            this._downY = e.pageY;
-        }
-    }
-
-    @action
-    onPointerUp = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
-        document.removeEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove);
-        document.removeEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp);
-        e.stopPropagation();
-
-        if (this._marquee) {
-            if (!e.shiftKey) {
-                SelectionManager.DeselectAll();
-            }
-            var selectedDocs = this.marqueeSelect();
-            selectedDocs.map(s => this.props.CollectionView.SelectedDocs.push(s.Id));
-            this._marquee = false;
-        }
-        else if (!this._marquee && Math.abs(this._downX - e.clientX) < 3 && Math.abs(this._downY - e.clientY) < 3) {
-            //show preview text cursor on tap
-            this._previewCursorVisible = true;
-            //select is not already selected
-            if (!this.props.isSelected()) {
-                this.props.select(false);
-            }
-        }
-
-    }
-
-    intersectRect(r1: { left: number, right: number, top: number, bottom: number },
-        r2: { left: number, right: number, top: number, bottom: number }) {
-        return !(r2.left > r1.right ||
-            r2.right < r1.left ||
-            r2.top > r1.bottom ||
-            r2.bottom < r1.top);
-    }
-
-    marqueeSelect() {
-        this.props.CollectionView.SelectedDocs.length = 0;
-        var curPage = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, 1);
-        let p = this.getTransform().transformPoint(this._downX, this._downY);
-        let v = this.getTransform().transformDirection(this._lastX - this._downX, this._lastY - this._downY);
-        let selRect = { left: p[0], top: p[1], right: p[0] + v[0], bottom: p[1] + v[1] }
-
-        var curPage = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, 1);
-        const lvalue = this.props.Document.GetT<ListField<Document>>(this.props.fieldKey, ListField);
-        let selection: Document[] = [];
-        if (lvalue && lvalue != FieldWaiting) {
-            lvalue.Data.map(doc => {
-                var page = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Page, 0);
-                if (page == curPage || page == 0) {
-                    var x = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0);
-                    var y = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0);
-                    var w = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 0);
-                    var h = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Height, 0);
-                    if (this.intersectRect({ left: x, top: y, right: x + w, bottom: y + h }, selRect))
-                        selection.push(doc)
-                }
-            })
-        }
-        return selection;
-    }
-
-    @action
-    onPointerMove = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
-        if (!e.cancelBubble && this.props.active()) {
-            e.stopPropagation();
-            e.preventDefault();
-            let wasMarquee = this._marquee;
-            this._marquee = e.buttons != 2;
-            if (this._marquee && !wasMarquee) {
-                document.addEventListener("keydown", this.marqueeCommand);
-            }
-
-            if (!this._marquee) {
-                let x = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanX, 0);
-                let y = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanY, 0);
-                let [dx, dy] = this.getTransform().transformDirection(e.clientX - this._lastX, e.clientY - this._lastY);
-                this._previewCursorVisible = false;
-                this.SetPan(x - dx, y - dy);
-            }
-        }
-        this._lastX = e.pageX;
-        this._lastY = e.pageY;
-    }
-
-    @action
-    marqueeCommand = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
-        if (e.key == "Backspace") {
-            this.marqueeSelect().map(d => this.props.removeDocument(d));
-        }
-        if (e.key == "c") {
-        }
-    }
-
-    @action
-    onPointerWheel = (e: React.WheelEvent): void => {
-        e.stopPropagation();
-        e.preventDefault();
-        let coefficient = 1000;
-
-        if (e.ctrlKey) {
-            var nativeWidth = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeWidth, 0);
-            var nativeHeight = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeHeight, 0);
-            const coefficient = 1000;
-            let deltaScale = (1 - (e.deltaY / coefficient));
-            this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.NativeWidth, nativeWidth * deltaScale);
-            this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.NativeHeight, nativeHeight * deltaScale);
-            e.stopPropagation();
-            e.preventDefault();
-        } else {
-            // if (modes[e.deltaMode] == 'pixels') coefficient = 50;
-            // else if (modes[e.deltaMode] == 'lines') coefficient = 1000; // This should correspond to line-height??
-            let transform = this.getTransform();
-
-            let deltaScale = (1 - (e.deltaY / coefficient));
-            if (deltaScale * this.zoomScaling < 1 && this.isAnnotationOverlay)
-                deltaScale = 1 / this.zoomScaling;
-            let [x, y] = transform.transformPoint(e.clientX, e.clientY);
-
-            let localTransform = this.getLocalTransform()
-            localTransform = localTransform.inverse().scaleAbout(deltaScale, x, y)
-            // console.log(localTransform)
-
-            this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.Scale, localTransform.Scale);
-            this.SetPan(-localTransform.TranslateX / localTransform.Scale, -localTransform.TranslateY / localTransform.Scale);
-        }
-    }
-
-    @action
-    private SetPan(panX: number, panY: number) {
-        var x1 = this.getLocalTransform().inverse().Scale;
-        var x2 = this.getTransform().inverse().Scale;
-        const newPanX = Math.min((1 - 1 / x1) * this.nativeWidth, Math.max(0, panX));
-        const newPanY = Math.min((1 - 1 / x1) * this.nativeHeight, Math.max(0, panY));
-        this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.PanX, this.isAnnotationOverlay ? newPanX : panX);
-        this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.PanY, this.isAnnotationOverlay ? newPanY : panY);
-    }
-
-    @action
-    onDrop = (e: React.DragEvent): void => {
-        var pt = this.getTransform().transformPoint(e.pageX, e.pageY);
-        super.onDrop(e, { x: pt[0], y: pt[1] });
-    }
-
-    onDragOver = (): void => {
-    }
-
-    @action
-    onKeyDown = (e: React.KeyboardEvent<Element>) => {
-        //if not these keys, make a textbox if preview cursor is active!
-        if (!e.ctrlKey && !e.altKey) {
-            if (this._previewCursorVisible) {
-                //make textbox and add it to this collection
-                let [x, y] = this.getTransform().transformPoint(this._downX, this._downY); (this._downX, this._downY);
-                let newBox = Documents.TextDocument({ width: 200, height: 100, x: x, y: y, title: "new" });
-                // mark this collection so that when the text box is created we can send it the SelectOnLoad prop to focus itself
-                this._selectOnLoaded = newBox.Id;
-                //set text to be the typed key and get focus on text box
-                this.props.CollectionView.addDocument(newBox);
-                //remove cursor from screen
-                this._previewCursorVisible = false;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    @action
-    bringToFront(doc: Document) {
-        const { fieldKey: fieldKey, Document: Document } = this.props;
-
-        const value: Document[] = Document.GetList<Document>(fieldKey, []).slice();
-        value.sort((doc1, doc2) => {
-            if (doc1 === doc) {
-                return 1;
-            }
-            if (doc2 === doc) {
-                return -1;
-            }
-            return doc1.GetNumber(KeyStore.ZIndex, 0) - doc2.GetNumber(KeyStore.ZIndex, 0);
-        }).map((doc, index) => {
-            doc.SetNumber(KeyStore.ZIndex, index + 1)
-        });
-    }
-
-    @computed get backgroundLayout(): string | undefined {
-        let field = this.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.BackgroundLayout, TextField);
-        if (field && field !== "<Waiting>") {
-            return field.Data;
-        }
-    }
-    @computed get overlayLayout(): string | undefined {
-        let field = this.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.OverlayLayout, TextField);
-        if (field && field !== "<Waiting>") {
-            return field.Data;
-        }
-    }
-
-    focusDocument = (doc: Document) => {
-        let x = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0) + doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 0) / 2;
-        let y = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0) + doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Height, 0) / 2;
-        this.SetPan(x, y);
-        this.props.focus(this.props.Document);
-    }
-
-
-    @computed
-    get views() {
-        var curPage = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, 1);
-        const lvalue = this.props.Document.GetT<ListField<Document>>(this.props.fieldKey, ListField);
-        if (lvalue && lvalue != FieldWaiting) {
-            return lvalue.Data.map(doc => {
-                var page = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Page, 0);
-                return (page != curPage && page != 0) ? (null) :
-                    (<CollectionFreeFormDocumentView key={doc.Id} Document={doc}
-                        AddDocument={this.props.addDocument}
-                        RemoveDocument={this.props.removeDocument}
-                        ScreenToLocalTransform={this.getTransform}
-                        isTopMost={false}
-                        SelectOnLoad={doc.Id === this._selectOnLoaded}
-                        ContentScaling={this.noScaling}
-                        PanelWidth={doc.Width}
-                        PanelHeight={doc.Height}
-                        ContainingCollectionView={this.props.CollectionView}
-                        focus={this.focusDocument}
-                    />);
-            })
-        }
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    @computed
-    get backgroundView() {
-        return !this.backgroundLayout ? (null) :
-            (<JsxParser
-                components={{ FormattedTextBox, ImageBox, CollectionFreeFormView, CollectionDockingView, CollectionSchemaView, CollectionView, CollectionPDFView, WebBox, KeyValueBox, PDFBox }}
-                bindings={this.props.bindings}
-                jsx={this.backgroundLayout}
-                showWarnings={true}
-                onError={(test: any) => console.log(test)}
-            />);
-    }
-    @computed
-    get overlayView() {
-        return !this.overlayLayout ? (null) :
-            (<JsxParser
-                components={{ FormattedTextBox, ImageBox, CollectionFreeFormView, CollectionDockingView, CollectionSchemaView, CollectionView, CollectionPDFView, WebBox, KeyValueBox, PDFBox }}
-                bindings={this.props.bindings}
-                jsx={this.overlayLayout}
-                showWarnings={true}
-                onError={(test: any) => console.log(test)}
-            />);
-    }
-
-    getTransform = (): Transform => this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate(-COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH, -COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH).translate(-this.centeringShiftX, -this.centeringShiftY).transform(this.getLocalTransform())
-    getLocalTransform = (): Transform => Transform.Identity.scale(1 / this.scale).translate(this.panX, this.panY);
-    noScaling = () => 1;
-
-    //when focus is lost, this will remove the preview cursor
-    @action
-    onBlur = (e: React.FocusEvent<HTMLDivElement>): void => {
-        this._previewCursorVisible = false;
-    }
-
-    render() {
-        //determines whether preview text cursor should be visible (ie when user taps this collection it should)
-        let cursor = null;
-        if (this._previewCursorVisible) {
-            //get local position and place cursor there!
-            let [x, y] = this.getTransform().transformPoint(this._downX, this._downY);
-            cursor = <div id="prevCursor" onKeyPress={this.onKeyDown} style={{ color: "black", position: "absolute", transformOrigin: "left top", transform: `translate(${x}px, ${y}px)` }}>I</div>
-        }
-
-        let p = this.getTransform().transformPoint(this._downX < this._lastX ? this._downX : this._lastX, this._downY < this._lastY ? this._downY : this._lastY);
-        let v = this.getTransform().transformDirection(this._lastX - this._downX, this._lastY - this._downY);
-        var marquee = this._marquee ? <div className="collectionfreeformview-marquee" style={{ transform: `translate(${p[0]}px, ${p[1]}px)`, width: `${Math.abs(v[0])}`, height: `${Math.abs(v[1])}` }}></div> : (null);
-
-        let [dx, dy] = [this.centeringShiftX, this.centeringShiftY];
-
-        const panx: number = -this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanX, 0);
-        const pany: number = -this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanY, 0);
-
-        return (
-            <div className={`collectionfreeformview${this.isAnnotationOverlay ? "-overlay" : "-container"}`}
-                onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown}
-                onKeyPress={this.onKeyDown}
-                onWheel={this.onPointerWheel}
-                onDrop={this.onDrop.bind(this)}
-                onDragOver={this.onDragOver}
-                onBlur={this.onBlur}
-                style={{ borderWidth: `${COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH}px`, }}
-                tabIndex={0}
-                ref={this.createDropTarget}>
-                <div className="collectionfreeformview"
-                    style={{ transformOrigin: "left top", transform: `translate(${dx}px, ${dy}px) scale(${this.zoomScaling}, ${this.zoomScaling}) translate(${panx}px, ${pany}px)` }}
-                    ref={this._canvasRef}>
-                    {this.backgroundView}
-                    <InkingCanvas getScreenTransform={this.getTransform} Document={this.props.Document} />
-                    {cursor}
-                    {this.views}
-                    {marquee}
-                </div>
-                {this.overlayView}
-            </div>
-        );
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionPDFView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionPDFView.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0144625c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionPDFView.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+.collectionPdfView-buttonTray {
+    top : 25px;
+    left : 20px;
+    position: relative; 
+    transform-origin: left top;
+    position: absolute;
+}
+.collectionPdfView-cont{
+    width: 100%;
+    height: 100%;
+    position: absolute; 
+    
+}
+.collectionPdfView-backward {
+    color : white;
+    top :0px;
+    left : 0px;
+    position: absolute;
+    background-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.2);
+}
+.collectionPdfView-forward {
+    color : white;
+    top :0px;
+    left : 35px;
+    position: absolute;
+    background-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.2);
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionPDFView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionPDFView.tsx
index f22c07060..4d2daf149 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionPDFView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionPDFView.tsx
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-import { action, computed } from "mobx";
+import { action, computed, observable } from "mobx";
 import { observer } from "mobx-react";
 import { Document } from "../../../fields/Document";
 import { KeyStore } from "../../../fields/KeyStore";
 import { ContextMenu } from "../ContextMenu";
 import { CollectionView, CollectionViewType } from "./CollectionView";
 import { CollectionViewProps } from "./CollectionViewBase";
+import "./CollectionPDFView.scss"
 import React = require("react");
 import { FieldId } from "../../../fields/Field";
 
@@ -18,25 +19,26 @@ export class CollectionPDFView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
                     isTopMost={isTopMost} SelectOnLoad={selectOnLoad} BackgroundView={BackgroundView} focus={focus}/>`;
     }
 
-    public SelectedDocs: FieldId[] = []
-    @action onPageBack = () => this.curPage > 1 ? this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, this.curPage - 1) : 0;
-    @action onPageForward = () => this.curPage < this.numPages ? this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, this.curPage + 1) : 0;
+    private get curPage() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, -1); }
+    private get numPages() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NumPages, 0); }
+    @action onPageBack = () => this.curPage > 1 ? this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, this.curPage - 1) : -1;
+    @action onPageForward = () => this.curPage < this.numPages ? this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, this.curPage + 1) : -1;
 
-    @computed private get curPage() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, 0); }
-    @computed private get numPages() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NumPages, 0); }
-    @computed private get uIButtons() {
+    private get uIButtons() {
+        let scaling = Math.min(1.8, this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().transformDirection(1, 1)[0]);
         return (
-            <div className="pdfBox-buttonTray" key="tray">
-                <button className="pdfButton" onClick={this.onPageBack}>{"<"}</button>
-                <button className="pdfButton" onClick={this.onPageForward}>{">"}</button>
+            <div className="collectionPdfView-buttonTray" key="tray" style={{ transform: `scale(${scaling}, ${scaling})` }}>
+                <button className="collectionPdfView-backward" onClick={this.onPageBack}>{"<"}</button>
+                <button className="collectionPdfView-forward" onClick={this.onPageForward}>{">"}</button>
             </div>);
     }
 
     // "inherited" CollectionView API starts here...
-
+    @observable
+    public SelectedDocs: FieldId[] = []
     public active: () => boolean = () => CollectionView.Active(this);
 
-    addDocument = (doc: Document): void => { CollectionView.AddDocument(this.props, doc); }
+    addDocument = (doc: Document, allowDuplicates: boolean): boolean => { return CollectionView.AddDocument(this.props, doc, allowDuplicates); }
     removeDocument = (doc: Document): boolean => { return CollectionView.RemoveDocument(this.props, doc); }
 
     specificContextMenu = (e: React.MouseEvent): void => {
@@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ export class CollectionPDFView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
     get subView(): any { return CollectionView.SubView(this); }
 
     render() {
-        return (<div className="collectionView-cont" onContextMenu={this.specificContextMenu}>
+        return (<div className="collectionPdfView-cont" onContextMenu={this.specificContextMenu}>
             {this.subView}
             {this.props.isSelected() ? this.uIButtons : (null)}
         </div>)
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSchemaView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSchemaView.scss
index d40e6d314..c3a2e88ac 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSchemaView.scss
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSchemaView.scss
@@ -1,54 +1,141 @@
+@import "../global_variables";
 
+//options menu styling
+#schemaOptionsMenuBtn {
+    position: absolute;
+    height: 20px;
+    width: 20px;
+    border-radius: 50%;
+    z-index: 21; 
+    right: 4px;
+    top: 4px; 
+    pointer-events: auto;
+    background-color:black;
+    display:inline-block;
+    padding: 0px;
+    font-size: 100%;
+}
+#schema-options-header {
+    text-align: center;
+    padding: 0px;
+    margin: 0px;
+}
+.schema-options-subHeader {
+    color: $intermediate-color;
+    margin-bottom: 5px;
+}
+#schemaOptionsMenuBtn:hover {
+    transform: scale(1.15);
+}
+
+#preview-schema-checkbox-div {
+    margin-left: 20px;
+    font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+  #options-flyout-div {
+    text-align: left;
+    padding:0px;
+    z-index: 100;
+    font-family: $sans-serif;
+    padding-left: 5px;
+  }
+
+  #schema-col-checklist {
+    overflow: scroll;
+    text-align: left;
+    //background-color: $light-color-secondary;
+    line-height: 25px;
+    max-height: 175px;
+    font-family: $sans-serif;
+    font-size: 12px;
+  }
+  
 
 .collectionSchemaView-container {
-    border-style: solid;
+    border: 1px solid $intermediate-color;
+    border-radius: $border-radius;
     box-sizing: border-box;
     position: absolute;
     width: 100%;
     height: 100%;
+    
+    .collectionSchemaView-content {
+        position: absolute;
+        height: 100%;
+        width: 100%;
+        overflow: auto;
+    }
     .collectionSchemaView-previewRegion {
-        position: relative; 
-        background: black; 
-        float: left; 
+        position: relative;
+        background: $light-color;
+        float: left;
         height: 100%;
     }
     .collectionSchemaView-previewHandle {
         position: absolute;
-        height: 37px;
-        width: 20px; 
+        height: 15px;
+        width: 15px; 
         z-index: 20; 
         right: 0; 
-        top: 0; 
+        top: 20px; 
         background: Black ;
     }
     .collectionSchemaView-dividerDragger{
         position: relative; 
         background: black; 
         float: left; 
+        height: 37px;
+        width: 20px;
+        z-index: 20;
+        right: 0;
+        top: 0;
+        background: $main-accent;
+    }
+    .collectionSchemaView-columnsHandle {
+        position: absolute;
+        height: 37px;
+        width: 20px;
+        z-index: 20;
+        left: 0;
+        bottom: 0;
+        background: $main-accent;
+    }
+    .collectionSchemaView-colDividerDragger {
+        position: relative;
+        box-sizing: border-box;
+        border-top: 1px solid $intermediate-color;
+        border-bottom: 1px solid $intermediate-color;
+        float: top;
+        width: 100%;
+    }
+    .collectionSchemaView-dividerDragger {
+        position: relative;
+        box-sizing: border-box;
+        border-left: 1px solid $intermediate-color;
+        border-right: 1px solid $intermediate-color;
+        float: left;
         height: 100%;
     }
     .collectionSchemaView-tableContainer {
         position: relative;
         float: left;
-        height: 100%; 
+        height: 100%;
     }
-
     .ReactTable {
-        position: absolute;
-       // display: inline-block;
-       // overflow: auto;
+        // position: absolute; // display: inline-block;
+        // overflow: auto;
         width: 100%;
         height: 100%;
-        background: white;
+        background: $light-color;
         box-sizing: border-box;
+        border: none !important;
         .rt-table {
             overflow-y: auto;
             overflow-x: auto;
             height: 100%;
-
             display: -webkit-inline-box;
-            direction: ltr;
-            // direction:rtl;
+            direction: ltr; // direction:rtl;
             // display:block;
         }
         .rt-tbody {
@@ -60,37 +147,47 @@
             max-height: 44px;
         }
         .rt-td {
-            border-width: 1;
-            border-right-color: #aaa;
+            border-width: 1px;
+            border-right-color: $intermediate-color;
             .imageBox-cont {
-                position:relative;
-                max-height:100%;
+                position: relative;
+                max-height: 100%;
             }
             .imageBox-cont img {
                 object-fit: contain;
                 max-width: 100%;
-                height: 100%
+                height: 100%;
+            }
+            .videobox-cont {
+                object-fit: contain;
+                width: auto;
+                height: 100%;
             }
-        }
-        .rt-tr-group {
-            border-width: 1;
-            border-bottom-color: #aaa
         }
     }
     .ReactTable .rt-thead.-header {
-            background:grey;
-        }
-    .ReactTable .rt-th, .ReactTable .rt-td {
+        background: $intermediate-color;
+        color: $light-color;
+        text-transform: uppercase;
+        letter-spacing: 2px;
+        font-size: 12px;
+        height: 30px;
+        padding-top: 4px;
+    }
+    .ReactTable .rt-th,
+    .ReactTable .rt-td {
         max-height: 44;
         padding: 3px 7px;
+        font-size: 13px;
+        text-align: center;
     }
     .ReactTable .rt-tbody .rt-tr-group:last-child {
-        border-bottom: grey;
+        border-bottom: $intermediate-color;
         border-bottom-style: solid;
         border-bottom-width: 1;
     }
     .documentView-node:first-child {
-        background: grey;
+        background: $light-color;
         .imageBox-cont img {
             object-fit: contain;
         }
@@ -204,4 +301,12 @@
     -webkit-flex: 1;
     -ms-flex: 1;
     flex: 1;
+}
+
+.-even {
+    background: $light-color !important;
+}
+
+.-odd {
+    background: $light-color-secondary !important;
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSchemaView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
index 04f017378..0ff6c3b40 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
@@ -1,37 +1,75 @@
 import React = require("react")
-import { action, observable } from "mobx";
+import { library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core';
+import { faCog, faPlus } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
+import { action, computed, observable, trace, untracked } from "mobx";
 import { observer } from "mobx-react";
 import Measure from "react-measure";
 import ReactTable, { CellInfo, ComponentPropsGetterR, ReactTableDefaults } from "react-table";
 import "react-table/react-table.css";
 import { Document } from "../../../fields/Document";
-import { Field } from "../../../fields/Field";
+import { Field, Opt, FieldWaiting } from "../../../fields/Field";
+import { Key } from "../../../fields/Key";
 import { KeyStore } from "../../../fields/KeyStore";
+import { ListField } from "../../../fields/ListField";
+import { Server } from "../../Server";
+import { setupDrag } from "../../util/DragManager";
 import { CompileScript, ToField } from "../../util/Scripting";
 import { Transform } from "../../util/Transform";
-import { ContextMenu } from "../ContextMenu";
+import { anchorPoints, Flyout } from "../DocumentDecorations";
+import '../DocumentDecorations.scss';
 import { EditableView } from "../EditableView";
 import { DocumentView } from "../nodes/DocumentView";
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from "../nodes/FieldView";
 import "./CollectionSchemaView.scss";
-import { COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH } from "./CollectionView";
+import { CollectionView, COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH } from "./CollectionView";
 import { CollectionViewBase } from "./CollectionViewBase";
-import { setupDrag } from "../../util/DragManager";
+import { TextField } from "../../../fields/TextField";
+
 
 // bcz: need to add drag and drop of rows and columns.  This seems like it might work for rows: https://codesandbox.io/s/l94mn1q657
 
 
 @observer
+class KeyToggle extends React.Component<{ keyId: string, checked: boolean, toggle: (key: Key) => void }> {
+    @observable key: Key | undefined;
+
+    componentWillReceiveProps() {
+        Server.GetField(this.props.keyId, action((field: Opt<Field>) => {
+            if (field instanceof Key) {
+                this.key = field;
+            }
+        }))
+    }
+
+    render() {
+        if (this.key) {
+            return (<div key={this.key.Id}>
+                <input type="checkbox" checked={this.props.checked} onChange={() => this.key && this.props.toggle(this.key)} />
+                {this.key.Name}
+            </div>)
+        }
+        return (null);
+    }
+}
+
+@observer
 export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionViewBase {
     private _mainCont = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
-    private DIVIDER_WIDTH = 5;
+    private _startSplitPercent = 0;
+    private DIVIDER_WIDTH = 4;
 
+    @observable _columns: Array<Key> = [KeyStore.Title, KeyStore.Data, KeyStore.Author];
     @observable _contentScaling = 1; // used to transfer the dimensions of the content pane in the DOM to the ContentScaling prop of the DocumentView
     @observable _dividerX = 0;
     @observable _panelWidth = 0;
     @observable _panelHeight = 0;
     @observable _selectedIndex = 0;
-    @observable _splitPercentage: number = 50;
+    @observable _columnsPercentage = 0;
+    @observable _keys: Key[] = [];
+
+    @computed get splitPercentage() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.SchemaSplitPercentage, 0); }
+
 
     renderCell = (rowProps: CellInfo) => {
         let props: FieldViewProps = {
@@ -47,11 +85,32 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionViewBase {
             <FieldView {...props} />
         )
         let reference = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
-        let onItemDown = setupDrag(reference, () => props.doc);
+        let onItemDown = setupDrag(reference, () => props.doc, (containingCollection: CollectionView) => this.props.removeDocument(props.doc));
+        let applyToDoc = (doc: Document, value: string) => {
+            let script = CompileScript(value, { this: doc }, true);
+            if (!script.compiled) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            let field = script();
+            if (field instanceof Field) {
+                doc.Set(props.fieldKey, field);
+                return true;
+            } else {
+                let dataField = ToField(field);
+                if (dataField) {
+                    doc.Set(props.fieldKey, dataField);
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
         return (
-            <div onPointerDown={onItemDown} key={props.doc.Id} ref={reference}>
-                <EditableView contents={contents}
-                    height={36} GetValue={() => {
+            <div className="collectionSchemaView-cellContents" onPointerDown={onItemDown} style={{ height: "56px" }} key={props.doc.Id} ref={reference}>
+                <EditableView
+                    display={"inline"}
+                    contents={contents}
+                    height={56}
+                    GetValue={() => {
                         let field = props.doc.Get(props.fieldKey);
                         if (field && field instanceof Field) {
                             return field.ToScriptString();
@@ -59,22 +118,14 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionViewBase {
                         return field || "";
                     }}
                     SetValue={(value: string) => {
-                        let script = CompileScript(value, undefined, true);
-                        if (!script.compiled) {
-                            return false;
-                        }
-                        let field = script();
-                        if (field instanceof Field) {
-                            props.doc.Set(props.fieldKey, field);
-                            return true;
-                        } else {
-                            let dataField = ToField(field);
-                            if (dataField) {
-                                props.doc.Set(props.fieldKey, dataField);
-                                return true;
+                        return applyToDoc(props.doc, value);
+                    }}
+                    OnFillDown={(value: string) => {
+                        this.props.Document.GetTAsync<ListField<Document>>(this.props.fieldKey, ListField).then((val) => {
+                            if (val) {
+                                val.Data.forEach(doc => applyToDoc(doc, value));
                             }
-                        }
-                        return false;
+                        })
                     }}>
                 </EditableView>
             </div>
@@ -88,8 +139,8 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionViewBase {
         }
         return {
             onClick: action((e: React.MouseEvent, handleOriginal: Function) => {
+                that.props.select(e.ctrlKey);
                 that._selectedIndex = rowInfo.index;
-                this._splitPercentage += 0.05; // bcz - ugh - needed to force Measure to do its thing and call onResize
 
                 if (handleOriginal) {
                     handleOriginal()
@@ -102,64 +153,76 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionViewBase {
         };
     }
 
-    _startSplitPercent = 0;
+    @computed
+    get columns() {
+        return this.props.Document.GetList<Key>(KeyStore.ColumnsKey, []);
+    }
+
+    @action
+    toggleKey = (key: Key) => {
+        this.props.Document.GetOrCreateAsync<ListField<Key>>(KeyStore.ColumnsKey, ListField,
+            (field) => {
+                const index = field.Data.indexOf(key);
+                if (index === -1) {
+                    this.columns.push(key);
+                } else {
+                    this.columns.splice(index, 1);
+                }
+
+            })
+    }
+
+    //toggles preview side-panel of schema
+    @action
+    toggleExpander = (event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
+        this._startSplitPercent = this.splitPercentage;
+        if (this._startSplitPercent == this.splitPercentage) {
+            this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.SchemaSplitPercentage, this.splitPercentage == 0 ? 33 : 0);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @computed
+    get findAllDocumentKeys(): { [id: string]: boolean } {
+        const docs = this.props.Document.GetList<Document>(this.props.fieldKey, []);
+        let keys: { [id: string]: boolean } = {}
+        if (this._optionsActivated > -1) {
+            // bcz: ugh.  this is untracked since otherwise a large collection of documents will blast the server for all their fields.
+            //  then as each document's fields come back, we update the documents _proxies.  Each time we do this, the whole schema will be
+            //  invalidated and re-rendered.   This workaround will inquire all of the document fields before the options button is clicked.
+            //  then by the time the options button is clicked, all of the fields should be in place.  If a new field is added while this menu
+            //  is displayed (unlikely) it won't show up until something else changes.
+            untracked(() => docs.map(doc => doc.GetAllPrototypes().map(proto => proto._proxies.forEach((val: any, key: string) => keys[key] = false))));
+        }
+        this.columns.forEach(key => keys[key.Id] = true)
+        return keys;
+    }
+
     @action
     onDividerMove = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
         let nativeWidth = this._mainCont.current!.getBoundingClientRect();
-        this._splitPercentage = Math.round((e.clientX - nativeWidth.left) / nativeWidth.width * 100);
+        this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.SchemaSplitPercentage, Math.max(0, 100 - Math.round((e.clientX - nativeWidth.left) / nativeWidth.width * 100)));
     }
     @action
     onDividerUp = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
         document.removeEventListener("pointermove", this.onDividerMove);
         document.removeEventListener('pointerup', this.onDividerUp);
-        if (this._startSplitPercent == this._splitPercentage) {
-            this._splitPercentage = this._splitPercentage == 1 ? 66 : 100;
+        if (this._startSplitPercent == this.splitPercentage) {
+            this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.SchemaSplitPercentage, this.splitPercentage == 0 ? 33 : 0);
         }
     }
     onDividerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
-        this._startSplitPercent = this._splitPercentage;
+        this._startSplitPercent = this.splitPercentage;
         e.stopPropagation();
         e.preventDefault();
         document.addEventListener("pointermove", this.onDividerMove);
         document.addEventListener('pointerup', this.onDividerUp);
     }
+
+    @observable _tableWidth = 0;
     @action
-    onExpanderMove = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
-        e.stopPropagation();
-        e.preventDefault();
-    }
-    @action
-    onExpanderUp = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
-        e.stopPropagation();
-        e.preventDefault();
-        document.removeEventListener("pointermove", this.onExpanderMove);
-        document.removeEventListener('pointerup', this.onExpanderUp);
-        if (this._startSplitPercent == this._splitPercentage) {
-            this._splitPercentage = this._splitPercentage == 100 ? 66 : 100;
-        }
+    setTableDimensions = (r: any) => {
+        this._tableWidth = r.entry.width;
     }
-    onExpanderDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
-        this._startSplitPercent = this._splitPercentage;
-        e.stopPropagation();
-        e.preventDefault();
-        document.addEventListener("pointermove", this.onExpanderMove);
-        document.addEventListener('pointerup', this.onExpanderUp);
-    }
-
-    onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
-        // if (e.button === 2 && this.active) {
-        //     e.stopPropagation();
-        //     e.preventDefault();
-        // } else 
-        {
-            if (e.buttons === 1) {
-                if (this.props.isSelected()) {
-                    e.stopPropagation();
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     @action
     setScaling = (r: any) => {
         const children = this.props.Document.GetList<Document>(this.props.fieldKey, []);
@@ -175,45 +238,111 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionViewBase {
     getTransform = (): Transform => {
         return this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate(- COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH - this.DIVIDER_WIDTH - this._dividerX, - COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH).scale(1 / this._contentScaling);
     }
+    getPreviewTransform = (): Transform => {
+        return this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate(- COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH - this.DIVIDER_WIDTH - this._dividerX - this._tableWidth, - COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH).scale(1 / this._contentScaling);
+    }
 
     focusDocument = (doc: Document) => { }
 
+    onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent): void => {
+        if (this.props.isSelected()) {
+            e.stopPropagation();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    addColumn = () => {
+        this.columns.push(new Key(this.newKeyName));
+        this.newKeyName = "";
+    }
+
+    @observable
+    newKeyName: string = "";
+
+    @action
+    newKeyChange = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
+        this.newKeyName = e.currentTarget.value;
+    }
+    onWheel = (e: React.WheelEvent): void => {
+        if (this.props.active())
+            e.stopPropagation();
+    }
+
+    @observable _optionsActivated: number = 0;
+    @action
+    OptionsMenuDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
+        this._optionsActivated++;
+    }
+
+    @observable previewScript: string = "this";
+    @action
+    onPreviewScriptChange = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
+        this.previewScript = e.currentTarget.value;
+    }
+
     render() {
-        const columns = this.props.Document.GetList(KeyStore.ColumnsKey, [KeyStore.Title, KeyStore.Data, KeyStore.Author])
+        library.add(faCog);
+        library.add(faPlus);
+        const columns = this.columns;
         const children = this.props.Document.GetList<Document>(this.props.fieldKey, []);
         const selected = children.length > this._selectedIndex ? children[this._selectedIndex] : undefined;
+        //all the keys/columns that will be displayed in the schema
+        const allKeys = this.findAllDocumentKeys;
+        let doc: any = selected ? selected.Get(new Key(this.previewScript)) : undefined;
+
+        // let doc = CompileScript(this.previewScript, { this: selected }, true)();
         let content = this._selectedIndex == -1 || !selected ? (null) : (
             <Measure onResize={this.setScaling}>
                 {({ measureRef }) =>
                     <div className="collectionSchemaView-content" ref={measureRef}>
-                        <DocumentView Document={selected}
+                        {doc instanceof Document ? <DocumentView Document={doc}
                             AddDocument={this.props.addDocument} RemoveDocument={this.props.removeDocument}
                             isTopMost={false}
                             SelectOnLoad={false}
-                            ScreenToLocalTransform={this.getTransform}
+                            ScreenToLocalTransform={this.getPreviewTransform}
                             ContentScaling={this.getContentScaling}
                             PanelWidth={this.getPanelWidth}
                             PanelHeight={this.getPanelHeight}
                             ContainingCollectionView={this.props.CollectionView}
                             focus={this.focusDocument}
-                        />
+                        /> : null}
+                        <input value={this.previewScript} onChange={this.onPreviewScriptChange}
+                            style={{ position: 'absolute', bottom: '0px' }} />
                     </div>
                 }
             </Measure>
         )
-        let previewHandle = !this.props.active() ? (null) : (
-            <div className="collectionSchemaView-previewHandle" onPointerDown={this.onExpanderDown} />);
-        let dividerDragger = this._splitPercentage == 100 ? (null) :
+        let dividerDragger = this.splitPercentage == 0 ? (null) :
             <div className="collectionSchemaView-dividerDragger" onPointerDown={this.onDividerDown} style={{ width: `${this.DIVIDER_WIDTH}px` }} />
+
+        //options button and menu
+        let optionsMenu = !this.props.active() ? (null) : (<Flyout
+            anchorPoint={anchorPoints.LEFT_TOP}
+            content={<div>
+                <div id="schema-options-header"><h5><b>Options</b></h5></div>
+                <div id="options-flyout-div">
+                    <h6 className="schema-options-subHeader">Preview Window</h6>
+                    <div id="preview-schema-checkbox-div"><input type="checkbox" key={"Show Preview"} checked={this.splitPercentage != 0} onChange={this.toggleExpander} />  Show Preview </div>
+                    <h6 className="schema-options-subHeader" >Displayed Columns</h6>
+                    <ul id="schema-col-checklist" >
+                        {Array.from(Object.keys(allKeys)).map(item => {
+                            return (<KeyToggle checked={allKeys[item]} key={item} keyId={item} toggle={this.toggleKey} />)
+                        })}
+                    </ul>
+                    <input value={this.newKeyName} onChange={this.newKeyChange} />
+                    <button onClick={this.addColumn}><FontAwesomeIcon style={{ color: "white" }} icon="plus" size="lg" /></button>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+            }>
+            <button id="schemaOptionsMenuBtn" onPointerDown={this.OptionsMenuDown}><FontAwesomeIcon style={{ color: "white" }} icon="cog" size="sm" /></button>
+        </Flyout>);
+
         return (
-            <div className="collectionSchemaView-container" onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown} ref={this._mainCont} style={{ borderWidth: `${COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH}px` }} >
+            <div className="collectionSchemaView-container" onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown} onWheel={this.onWheel} ref={this._mainCont} style={{ borderWidth: `${COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH}px` }} >
                 <div className="collectionSchemaView-dropTarget" onDrop={(e: React.DragEvent) => this.onDrop(e, {})} ref={this.createDropTarget}>
-                    <Measure onResize={action((r: any) => {
-                        this._dividerX = r.entry.width;
-                        this._panelHeight = r.entry.height;
-                    })}>
+                    <Measure onResize={this.setTableDimensions}>
                         {({ measureRef }) =>
-                            <div ref={measureRef} className="collectionSchemaView-tableContainer" style={{ width: `${this._splitPercentage}%` }}>
+                            <div className="collectionSchemaView-tableContainer" ref={measureRef} style={{ width: `calc(100% - ${this.splitPercentage}%)` }}>
                                 <ReactTable
                                     data={children}
                                     pageSize={children.length}
@@ -231,14 +360,13 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionViewBase {
                                     }}
                                     getTrProps={this.getTrProps}
                                 />
-                            </div>
-                        }
+                            </div>}
                     </Measure>
                     {dividerDragger}
-                    <div className="collectionSchemaView-previewRegion" style={{ width: `calc(${100 - this._splitPercentage}% - ${this.DIVIDER_WIDTH}px)` }}>
+                    <div className="collectionSchemaView-previewRegion" style={{ width: `calc(${this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.SchemaSplitPercentage, 0)}% - ${this.DIVIDER_WIDTH}px)` }}>
                         {content}
                     </div>
-                    {previewHandle}
+                    {optionsMenu}
                 </div>
             </div >
         )
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.scss
index f8d580a7b..5a14aa54d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.scss
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.scss
@@ -1,16 +1,27 @@
+@import "../global_variables";
 #body {
     padding: 20px;
-    background: #bbbbbb;
+    padding-left: 10px;
+    padding-right: 0px;
+    background: $light-color-secondary;
+    font-size: 13px;
+    overflow: scroll;
 }
 
 ul {
     list-style: none;
+    padding-left: 20px;
 }
 
 li {
     margin: 5px 0;
 }
 
+.collection-child {
+    margin-top: 10px;
+    margin-bottom: 10px;
+}
+
 .no-indent {
     padding-left: 0;
 }
@@ -18,10 +29,17 @@ li {
 .bullet {
     width: 1.5em;
     display: inline-block;
+    color: $intermediate-color;
+}
+
+.coll-title {
+    font-size: 24px;
+    margin-bottom: 20px;
 }
 
 .collectionTreeView-dropTarget {
-    border-style: solid;
+    border: 0px solid transparent;
+    border-radius: $border-radius;
     box-sizing: border-box;
     height: 100%;
 }
@@ -30,8 +48,17 @@ li {
     display: inline-table;
 }
 
+.docContainer:hover {
+    .delete-button {
+        display: inline;
+        width: auto;
+    }
+}
+
 .delete-button {
-    color: #999999;
+    color: $intermediate-color;
     float: right;
-    margin-left: 1em;
+    margin-left: 15px;
+    margin-top: 3px;
+    display: inline;
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
index efc22cdc5..70790af18 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
+import { IconProp, library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core';
+import { faCaretDown, faCaretRight, faTrashAlt } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';
+import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
+import { action, observable, trace } from "mobx";
 import { observer } from "mobx-react";
-import { CollectionViewBase } from "./CollectionViewBase";
 import { Document } from "../../../fields/Document";
+import { FieldWaiting } from "../../../fields/Field";
 import { KeyStore } from "../../../fields/KeyStore";
 import { ListField } from "../../../fields/ListField";
-import React = require("react")
-import { TextField } from "../../../fields/TextField";
-import { observable, action } from "mobx";
-import "./CollectionTreeView.scss";
-import { EditableView } from "../EditableView";
 import { setupDrag } from "../../util/DragManager";
-import { FieldWaiting } from "../../../fields/Field";
-import { COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH } from "./CollectionView";
+import { EditableView } from "../EditableView";
+import "./CollectionTreeView.scss";
+import { CollectionView, COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH } from "./CollectionView";
+import { CollectionViewBase } from "./CollectionViewBase";
+import React = require("react")
+
 
 export interface TreeViewProps {
     document: Document;
@@ -23,20 +26,19 @@ export enum BulletType {
     List
 }
 
+library.add(faTrashAlt);
+library.add(faCaretDown);
+library.add(faCaretRight);
+
 @observer
 /**
  * Component that takes in a document prop and a boolean whether it's collapsed or not.
  */
 class TreeView extends React.Component<TreeViewProps> {
 
-    //observable means render is re-called every time variable is changed
-    @observable
-    collapsed: boolean = false;
-
-    delete = () => {
-        this.props.deleteDoc(this.props.document);
-    }
+    @observable _collapsed: boolean = true;
 
+    delete = () => this.props.deleteDoc(this.props.document);
 
     @action
     remove = (document: Document) => {
@@ -47,91 +49,63 @@ class TreeView extends React.Component<TreeViewProps> {
     }
 
     renderBullet(type: BulletType) {
-        let onClicked = action(() => this.collapsed = !this.collapsed);
-
+        let onClicked = action(() => this._collapsed = !this._collapsed);
+        let bullet: IconProp | undefined = undefined;
         switch (type) {
-            case BulletType.Collapsed:
-                return <div className="bullet" onClick={onClicked}>&#9654;</div>
-            case BulletType.Collapsible:
-                return <div className="bullet" onClick={onClicked}>&#9660;</div>
-            case BulletType.List:
-                return <div className="bullet">&mdash;</div>
+            case BulletType.Collapsed: bullet = "caret-right"; break;
+            case BulletType.Collapsible: bullet = "caret-down"; break;
         }
+        return <div className="bullet" onClick={onClicked}>{bullet ? <FontAwesomeIcon icon={bullet} /> : ""} </div>
     }
 
     /**
      * Renders the EditableView title element for placement into the tree.
      */
     renderTitle() {
-        let title = this.props.document.GetT<TextField>(KeyStore.Title, TextField);
-
-        // if the title hasn't loaded, immediately return the div
-        if (!title || title === "<Waiting>") {
-            return <div key={this.props.document.Id}></div>;
-        }
-
-        return <div className="docContainer"> <EditableView contents={title.Data}
-            height={36} GetValue={() => {
-                let title = this.props.document.GetT<TextField>(KeyStore.Title, TextField);
-                if (title && title !== "<Waiting>")
-                    return title.Data;
-                return "";
-            }} SetValue={(value: string) => {
-                this.props.document.SetData(KeyStore.Title, value, TextField);
-                return true;
-            }} />
-            <div className="delete-button" onClick={this.delete}>x</div>
-        </div >
+        let reference = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
+        let onItemDown = setupDrag(reference, () => this.props.document, (containingCollection: CollectionView) => this.props.deleteDoc(this.props.document));
+        let editableView = (titleString: string) =>
+            (<EditableView
+                display={"inline"}
+                contents={titleString}
+                height={36}
+                GetValue={() => this.props.document.Title}
+                SetValue={(value: string) => {
+                    this.props.document.SetText(KeyStore.Title, value);
+                    return true;
+                }}
+            />);
+        return (
+            <div className="docContainer" ref={reference} onPointerDown={onItemDown}>
+                {editableView(this.props.document.Title)}
+                <div className="delete-button" onClick={this.delete}><FontAwesomeIcon icon="trash-alt" size="xs" /></div>
+            </div >)
     }
 
     render() {
-        var children = this.props.document.GetT<ListField<Document>>(KeyStore.Data, ListField);
-
-        let reference = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
-        let onItemDown = setupDrag(reference, () => this.props.document);
-        let titleElement = this.renderTitle();
+        let bulletType = BulletType.List;
+        let childElements: JSX.Element | undefined = undefined;
 
-        // check if this document is a collection
-        if (children && children !== FieldWaiting) {
-            let subView;
-
-            // if uncollapsed, then add the children elements
-            if (!this.collapsed) {
-                // render all children elements
-                let childrenElement = (children.Data.map(value =>
-                    <TreeView document={value} deleteDoc={this.remove} />)
-                )
-                subView =
-                    <li key={this.props.document.Id} >
-                        {this.renderBullet(BulletType.Collapsible)}
-                        {titleElement}
-                        <ul key={this.props.document.Id}>
-                            {childrenElement}
-                        </ul>
-                    </li>
-            } else {
-                subView = <li key={this.props.document.Id}>
-                    {this.renderBullet(BulletType.Collapsed)}
-                    {titleElement}
-                </li>
+        var children = this.props.document.GetT<ListField<Document>>(KeyStore.Data, ListField);
+        if (children && children !== FieldWaiting) { // add children for a collection
+            if (!this._collapsed) {
+                bulletType = BulletType.Collapsible;
+                childElements = <ul>
+                    {children.Data.map(value => <TreeView key={value.Id} document={value} deleteDoc={this.remove} />)}
+                </ul>
             }
-
-            return <div className="treeViewItem-container" onPointerDown={onItemDown} ref={reference}>
-                {subView}
-            </div>
-        }
-
-        // otherwise this is a normal leaf node
-        else {
-            return <li key={this.props.document.Id}>
-                {this.renderBullet(BulletType.List)}
-                {titleElement}
-            </li>;
+            else bulletType = BulletType.Collapsed;
         }
+        return <div className="treeViewItem-container" >
+            <li className="collection-child">
+                {this.renderBullet(bulletType)}
+                {this.renderTitle()}
+                {childElements ? childElements : (null)}
+            </li>
+        </div>
     }
 }
 
-
 @observer
 export class CollectionTreeView extends CollectionViewBase {
 
@@ -144,12 +118,6 @@ export class CollectionTreeView extends CollectionViewBase {
     }
 
     render() {
-        let titleStr = "";
-        let title = this.props.Document.GetT<TextField>(KeyStore.Title, TextField);
-        if (title && title !== FieldWaiting) {
-            titleStr = title.Data;
-        }
-
         var children = this.props.Document.GetT<ListField<Document>>(KeyStore.Data, ListField);
         let childrenElement = !children || children === FieldWaiting ? (null) :
             (children.Data.map(value =>
@@ -157,16 +125,19 @@ export class CollectionTreeView extends CollectionViewBase {
             )
 
         return (
-            <div id="body" className="collectionTreeView-dropTarget" onDrop={(e: React.DragEvent) => this.onDrop(e, {})} ref={this.createDropTarget} style={{ borderWidth: `${COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH}px` }}>
-                <h3>
-                    <EditableView contents={titleStr}
-                        height={72} GetValue={() => {
-                            return this.props.Document.Title;
-                        }} SetValue={(value: string) => {
-                            this.props.Document.SetData(KeyStore.Title, value, TextField);
+            <div id="body" className="collectionTreeView-dropTarget" onWheel={(e: React.WheelEvent) => e.stopPropagation()} onDrop={(e: React.DragEvent) => this.onDrop(e, {})} ref={this.createDropTarget} style={{ borderWidth: `${COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH}px` }}>
+                <div className="coll-title">
+                    <EditableView
+                        contents={this.props.Document.Title}
+                        display={"inline"}
+                        height={72}
+                        GetValue={() => this.props.Document.Title}
+                        SetValue={(value: string) => {
+                            this.props.Document.SetText(KeyStore.Title, value);
                             return true;
                         }} />
-                </h3>
+                </div>
+                <hr />
                 <ul className="no-indent">
                     {childrenElement}
                 </ul>
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionVideoView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionVideoView.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cbb981b13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionVideoView.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+
+.collectionVideoView-cont{
+    width: 100%;
+    height: 100%;
+    position: absolute;
+ 
+}
+.collectionVideoView-time{
+    color : white;
+    top :25px;
+    left : 25px;
+    position: absolute;
+    background-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.2);
+    transform-origin: left top;
+}
+.collectionVideoView-play {
+    width: 25px;
+    height: 20px;
+    bottom: 25px;
+    left : 25px;
+    position: absolute;
+    color : white;
+    background-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.2);
+    border-radius: 4px;
+    text-align: center;
+    transform-origin: left bottom;
+}
+.collectionVideoView-full {
+    width: 25px;
+    height: 20px;
+    bottom: 25px;
+    right : 25px;
+    position: absolute;
+    color : white;
+    background-color: rgba(50, 50, 50, 0.2);
+    border-radius: 4px;
+    text-align: center;
+    transform-origin: right bottom;
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionVideoView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionVideoView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..470a853e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionVideoView.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+import { action, computed, observable, trace } from "mobx";
+import { observer } from "mobx-react";
+import { Document } from "../../../fields/Document";
+import { KeyStore } from "../../../fields/KeyStore";
+import { ContextMenu } from "../ContextMenu";
+import { CollectionView, CollectionViewType } from "./CollectionView";
+import { CollectionViewProps } from "./CollectionViewBase";
+import React = require("react");
+import { FieldId } from "../../../fields/Field";
+import "./CollectionVideoView.scss"
+
+
+@observer
+export class CollectionVideoView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
+    private _intervalTimer: any = undefined;
+    private _player: HTMLVideoElement | undefined = undefined;
+
+    @observable _currentTimecode: number = 0;
+    @observable _isPlaying: boolean = false;
+
+    public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string = "DataKey") {
+        return `<${CollectionVideoView.name} Document={Document}
+                    ScreenToLocalTransform={ScreenToLocalTransform} fieldKey={${fieldKey}} panelWidth={PanelWidth} panelHeight={PanelHeight} isSelected={isSelected} select={select} bindings={bindings}
+                    isTopMost={isTopMost} SelectOnLoad={selectOnLoad} BackgroundView={BackgroundView} focus={focus}/>`;
+    }
+    private get uIButtons() {
+        let scaling = Math.min(1.8, this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().transformDirection(1, 1)[0]);
+        return ([
+            <div className="collectionVideoView-time" key="time" onPointerDown={this.onResetDown} style={{ transform: `scale(${scaling}, ${scaling})` }}>
+                <span>{"" + Math.round(this._currentTimecode)}</span>
+                <span style={{ fontSize: 8 }}>{" " + Math.round((this._currentTimecode - Math.trunc(this._currentTimecode)) * 100)}</span>
+            </div>,
+            <div className="collectionVideoView-play" key="play" onPointerDown={this.onPlayDown} style={{ transform: `scale(${scaling}, ${scaling})` }}>
+                {this._isPlaying ? "\"" : ">"}
+            </div>,
+            <div className="collectionVideoView-full" key="full" onPointerDown={this.onFullDown} style={{ transform: `scale(${scaling}, ${scaling})` }}>
+                F
+                </div>
+        ]);
+    }
+
+    @action
+    mainCont = (ele: HTMLDivElement | null) => {
+        if (ele) {
+            this._player = ele!.getElementsByTagName("video")[0];
+            if (this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, -1) >= 0) {
+                this._currentTimecode = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, -1);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    componentDidMount() {
+        this._intervalTimer = setInterval(this.updateTimecode, 1000);
+    }
+
+    componentWillUnmount() {
+        clearInterval(this._intervalTimer);
+    }
+
+    @action
+    updateTimecode = () => {
+        if (this._player) {
+            if ((this._player as any).AHackBecauseSomethingResetsTheVideoToZero != -1) {
+                this._player.currentTime = (this._player as any).AHackBecauseSomethingResetsTheVideoToZero;
+                (this._player as any).AHackBecauseSomethingResetsTheVideoToZero = -1;
+            } else {
+                this._currentTimecode = this._player.currentTime;
+                this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, Math.round(this._currentTimecode));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPlayDown = () => {
+        if (this._player) {
+            if (this._player.paused) {
+                this._player.play();
+                this._isPlaying = true;
+            } else {
+                this._player.pause();
+                this._isPlaying = false;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onFullDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
+        if (this._player) {
+            this._player.requestFullscreen();
+            e.stopPropagation();
+            e.preventDefault();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onResetDown = () => {
+        if (this._player) {
+            this._player.pause();
+            this._player.currentTime = 0;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    // "inherited" CollectionView API starts here...
+
+    @observable
+    public SelectedDocs: FieldId[] = []
+    public active: () => boolean = () => CollectionView.Active(this);
+
+    addDocument = (doc: Document, allowDuplicates: boolean): boolean => { return CollectionView.AddDocument(this.props, doc, allowDuplicates); }
+    removeDocument = (doc: Document): boolean => { return CollectionView.RemoveDocument(this.props, doc); }
+
+    specificContextMenu = (e: React.MouseEvent): void => {
+        if (!e.isPropagationStopped() && this.props.Document.Id != "mainDoc") { // need to test this because GoldenLayout causes a parallel hierarchy in the React DOM for its children and the main document view7
+            ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: "VideoOptions", event: () => { } });
+        }
+    }
+
+    get collectionViewType(): CollectionViewType { return CollectionViewType.Freeform; }
+    get subView(): any { return CollectionView.SubView(this); }
+
+
+    render() {
+        trace();
+        return (<div className="collectionVideoView-cont" ref={this.mainCont} onContextMenu={this.specificContextMenu}>
+            {this.subView}
+            {this.props.isSelected() ? this.uIButtons : (null)}
+        </div>)
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
index 548a51bf1..014aa1d8f 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ import { ContextMenu } from "../ContextMenu";
 import React = require("react");
 import { KeyStore } from "../../../fields/KeyStore";
 import { NumberField } from "../../../fields/NumberField";
-import { CollectionFreeFormView } from "./CollectionFreeFormView";
+import { CollectionFreeFormView } from "./collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView";
 import { CollectionDockingView } from "./CollectionDockingView";
 import { CollectionSchemaView } from "./CollectionSchemaView";
 import { CollectionViewProps } from "./CollectionViewBase";
 import { CollectionTreeView } from "./CollectionTreeView";
-import { Field, FieldId } from "../../../fields/Field";
+import { Field, FieldId, FieldWaiting } from "../../../fields/Field";
+import { CurrentUserUtils } from "../../../server/authentication/models/current_user_utils";
 
 export enum CollectionViewType {
     Invalid,
@@ -22,22 +23,21 @@ export enum CollectionViewType {
     Tree
 }
 
-export const COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH = 2;
+export const COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH = 1;
 
 @observer
 export class CollectionView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
 
-    @observable
-    public SelectedDocs: FieldId[] = [];
-
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string = "DataKey") {
         return `<${CollectionView.name} Document={Document}
                     ScreenToLocalTransform={ScreenToLocalTransform} fieldKey={${fieldKey}} panelWidth={PanelWidth} panelHeight={PanelHeight} isSelected={isSelected} select={select} bindings={bindings}
                     isTopMost={isTopMost} SelectOnLoad={selectOnLoad} BackgroundView={BackgroundView} focus={focus}/>`;
     }
 
+    @observable
+    public SelectedDocs: FieldId[] = [];
     public active: () => boolean = () => CollectionView.Active(this);
-    addDocument = (doc: Document): void => { CollectionView.AddDocument(this.props, doc); }
+    addDocument = (doc: Document, allowDuplicates: boolean): boolean => { return CollectionView.AddDocument(this.props, doc, allowDuplicates); }
     removeDocument = (doc: Document): boolean => { return CollectionView.RemoveDocument(this.props, doc); }
     get subView() { return CollectionView.SubView(this); }
 
@@ -48,16 +48,49 @@ export class CollectionView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
         return isSelected || childSelected || topMost;
     }
 
+    static createsCycle(documentToAdd: Document, containerDocument: Document): boolean {
+        let data = documentToAdd.GetList<Document>(KeyStore.Data, []);
+        for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
+            if (CollectionView.createsCycle(data[i], containerDocument))
+                return true;
+        }
+        let annots = documentToAdd.GetList<Document>(KeyStore.Annotations, []);
+        for (let i = 0; i < annots.length; i++) {
+            if (CollectionView.createsCycle(annots[i], containerDocument))
+                return true;
+        }
+        for (let containerProto: any = containerDocument; containerProto && containerProto != FieldWaiting; containerProto = containerProto.GetPrototype()) {
+            if (containerProto.Id == documentToAdd.Id)
+                return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
     @action
-    public static AddDocument(props: CollectionViewProps, doc: Document) {
-        doc.SetNumber(KeyStore.Page, props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, 0));
+    public static AddDocument(props: CollectionViewProps, doc: Document, allowDuplicates: boolean): boolean {
+        var curPage = props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, -1);
+        doc.SetOnPrototype(KeyStore.Page, new NumberField(curPage));
+        if (curPage >= 0) {
+            doc.SetOnPrototype(KeyStore.AnnotationOn, props.Document);
+        }
         if (props.Document.Get(props.fieldKey) instanceof Field) {
             //TODO This won't create the field if it doesn't already exist
             const value = props.Document.GetData(props.fieldKey, ListField, new Array<Document>())
-            value.push(doc);
+            if (!CollectionView.createsCycle(doc, props.Document)) {
+                if (!value.some(v => v.Id == doc.Id) || allowDuplicates)
+                    value.push(doc);
+            }
+            else
+                return false;
         } else {
-            props.Document.SetData(props.fieldKey, [doc], ListField);
+            let proto = props.Document.GetPrototype();
+            if (!proto || proto == FieldWaiting || !CollectionView.createsCycle(proto, doc)) {
+                props.Document.SetOnPrototype(props.fieldKey, new ListField([doc]));
+            }
+            else
+                return false;
         }
+        return true;
     }
 
     @action
@@ -71,11 +104,16 @@ export class CollectionView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
                 break;
             }
         }
+        doc.GetTAsync(KeyStore.AnnotationOn, Document).then((annotationOn) => {
+            if (annotationOn == props.Document) {
+                doc.Set(KeyStore.AnnotationOn, undefined, true);
+            }
+        })
 
         if (index !== -1) {
             value.splice(index, 1)
 
-            SelectionManager.DeselectAll()
+            //SelectionManager.DeselectAll()
             ContextMenu.Instance.clearItems()
             return true;
         }
@@ -85,7 +123,7 @@ export class CollectionView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
     get collectionViewType(): CollectionViewType {
         let Document = this.props.Document;
         let viewField = Document.GetT(KeyStore.ViewType, NumberField);
-        if (viewField === "<Waiting>") {
+        if (viewField === FieldWaiting) {
             return CollectionViewType.Invalid;
         } else if (viewField) {
             return viewField.Data;
@@ -95,11 +133,10 @@ export class CollectionView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
     }
 
     specificContextMenu = (e: React.MouseEvent): void => {
-        if (!e.isPropagationStopped() && this.props.Document.Id != "mainDoc") { // need to test this because GoldenLayout causes a parallel hierarchy in the React DOM for its children and the main document view7
+        if (!e.isPropagationStopped() && this.props.Document.Id != CurrentUserUtils.MainDocId) { // need to test this because GoldenLayout causes a parallel hierarchy in the React DOM for its children and the main document view7
             ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: "Freeform", event: () => this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.ViewType, CollectionViewType.Freeform) })
             ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: "Schema", event: () => this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.ViewType, CollectionViewType.Schema) })
             ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: "Treeview", event: () => this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.ViewType, CollectionViewType.Tree) })
-            ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: "Docking", event: () => this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.ViewType, CollectionViewType.Docking) })
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionViewBase.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionViewBase.tsx
index b126b40a9..316d20c9d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionViewBase.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionViewBase.tsx
@@ -3,14 +3,20 @@ import { Document } from "../../../fields/Document";
 import { ListField } from "../../../fields/ListField";
 import React = require("react");
 import { KeyStore } from "../../../fields/KeyStore";
-import { FieldWaiting } from "../../../fields/Field";
+import { FieldWaiting, Opt } from "../../../fields/Field";
 import { undoBatch } from "../../util/UndoManager";
 import { DragManager } from "../../util/DragManager";
-import { DocumentView } from "../nodes/DocumentView";
 import { Documents, DocumentOptions } from "../../documents/Documents";
 import { Key } from "../../../fields/Key";
 import { Transform } from "../../util/Transform";
 import { CollectionView } from "./CollectionView";
+import { RouteStore } from "../../../server/RouteStore";
+import { TupleField } from "../../../fields/TupleField";
+import { CurrentUserUtils } from "../../../server/authentication/models/current_user_utils";
+import { NumberField } from "../../../fields/NumberField";
+import request = require("request");
+import { ServerUtils } from "../../../server/ServerUtil";
+import { Server } from "../../Server";
 
 export interface CollectionViewProps {
     fieldKey: Key;
@@ -24,13 +30,16 @@ export interface CollectionViewProps {
     panelHeight: () => number;
     focus: (doc: Document) => void;
 }
+
 export interface SubCollectionViewProps extends CollectionViewProps {
     active: () => boolean;
-    addDocument: (doc: Document) => void;
+    addDocument: (doc: Document, allowDuplicates: boolean) => boolean;
     removeDocument: (doc: Document) => boolean;
     CollectionView: CollectionView;
 }
 
+export type CursorEntry = TupleField<[string, string], [number, number]>;
+
 export class CollectionViewBase extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProps> {
     private dropDisposer?: DragManager.DragDropDisposer;
     protected createDropTarget = (ele: HTMLDivElement) => {
@@ -42,65 +51,126 @@ export class CollectionViewBase extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProps>
         }
     }
 
+    @action
+    protected setCursorPosition(position: [number, number]) {
+        let ind;
+        let doc = this.props.Document;
+        let id = CurrentUserUtils.id;
+        let email = CurrentUserUtils.email;
+        if (id && email) {
+            let textInfo: [string, string] = [id, email];
+            doc.GetTAsync(KeyStore.Prototype, Document).then(proto => {
+                if (!proto) {
+                    return;
+                }
+                proto.GetOrCreateAsync<ListField<CursorEntry>>(KeyStore.Cursors, ListField, action((field: ListField<CursorEntry>) => {
+                    let cursors = field.Data;
+                    if (cursors.length > 0 && (ind = cursors.findIndex(entry => entry.Data[0][0] === id)) > -1) {
+                        cursors[ind].Data[1] = position;
+                    } else {
+                        let entry = new TupleField<[string, string], [number, number]>([textInfo, position]);
+                        cursors.push(entry);
+                    }
+                }))
+            })
+        }
+    }
+
     @undoBatch
     @action
-    protected drop(e: Event, de: DragManager.DropEvent) {
-        const docView: DocumentView = de.data["documentView"];
-        const doc: Document = de.data["document"];
-        if (docView && (!docView.props.ContainingCollectionView || docView.props.ContainingCollectionView !== this.props.CollectionView)) {
-            if (docView.props.RemoveDocument) {
-                docView.props.RemoveDocument(docView.props.Document);
+    protected drop(e: Event, de: DragManager.DropEvent): boolean {
+        if (de.data instanceof DragManager.DocumentDragData) {
+            if (de.data.aliasOnDrop) {
+                [KeyStore.Width, KeyStore.Height, KeyStore.CurPage].map(key =>
+                    de.data.draggedDocuments.GetTAsync(key, NumberField, (f: Opt<NumberField>) => f ? de.data.droppedDocument.SetNumber(key, f.Data) : null));
+            }
+            let added = de.data.droppedDocuments.reduce((added, d) => this.props.addDocument(d, false), true);
+            if (added && de.data.removeDocument && !de.data.aliasOnDrop) {
+                de.data.removeDocument(this.props.CollectionView);
+            }
+            e.stopPropagation();
+            return added;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    protected getDocumentFromType(type: string, path: string, options: DocumentOptions): Opt<Document> {
+        let ctor: ((path: string, options: DocumentOptions) => Document) | undefined;
+        if (type.indexOf("image") !== -1) {
+            ctor = Documents.ImageDocument;
+        }
+        if (type.indexOf("video") !== -1) {
+            ctor = Documents.VideoDocument;
+        }
+        if (type.indexOf("audio") !== -1) {
+            ctor = Documents.AudioDocument;
+        }
+        if (type.indexOf("pdf") !== -1) {
+            ctor = Documents.PdfDocument;
+        }
+        if (type.indexOf("html") !== -1) {
+            if (path.includes('localhost')) {
+                let s = path.split('/');
+                let id = s[s.length - 1];
+                Server.GetField(id).then(field => {
+                    if (field instanceof Document) {
+                        let alias = field.CreateAlias();
+                        alias.SetNumber(KeyStore.X, options.x || 0);
+                        alias.SetNumber(KeyStore.Y, options.y || 0);
+                        alias.SetNumber(KeyStore.Width, options.width || 300);
+                        alias.SetNumber(KeyStore.Height, options.height || options.width || 300);
+                        this.props.addDocument(alias, false);
+                    }
+                })
+                return undefined;
             }
-            this.props.addDocument(docView.props.Document);
-        } else if (doc) {
-            this.props.removeDocument(doc);
-            this.props.addDocument(doc);
+            ctor = Documents.WebDocument;
+            options = { height: options.width, ...options, title: path };
         }
-        e.stopPropagation();
+        return ctor ? ctor(path, options) : undefined;
     }
 
     @action
     protected onDrop(e: React.DragEvent, options: DocumentOptions): void {
-        e.stopPropagation()
-        e.preventDefault()
         let that = this;
 
         let html = e.dataTransfer.getData("text/html");
         let text = e.dataTransfer.getData("text/plain");
-        if (html && html.indexOf("<img") != 0) {
+
+        if (text && text.startsWith("<div")) {
+            return;
+        }
+        e.stopPropagation()
+        e.preventDefault()
+
+        if (html && html.indexOf("<img") != 0 && !html.startsWith("<a")) {
             console.log("not good");
             let htmlDoc = Documents.HtmlDocument(html, { ...options, width: 300, height: 300 });
             htmlDoc.SetText(KeyStore.DocumentText, text);
-            this.props.addDocument(htmlDoc);
+            this.props.addDocument(htmlDoc, false);
             return;
         }
 
-        console.log(e.dataTransfer.items.length);
-
         for (let i = 0; i < e.dataTransfer.items.length; i++) {
-            const upload = window.location.origin + "/upload";
+            const upload = window.location.origin + RouteStore.upload;
             let item = e.dataTransfer.items[i];
             if (item.kind === "string" && item.type.indexOf("uri") != -1) {
-                e.dataTransfer.items[i].getAsString(function (s) {
-                    action(() => {
-                        var img = Documents.ImageDocument(s, { ...options, nativeWidth: 300, width: 300, })
-
-                        let docs = that.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.Data, ListField);
-                        if (docs != FieldWaiting) {
-                            if (!docs) {
-                                docs = new ListField<Document>();
-                                that.props.Document.Set(KeyStore.Data, docs)
+                e.dataTransfer.items[i].getAsString(action((s: string) => {
+                    let document: Document;
+                    request.head(ServerUtils.prepend(RouteStore.corsProxy + "/" + s), (err, res, body) => {
+                        let type = res.headers["content-type"];
+                        if (type) {
+                            let doc = this.getDocumentFromType(type, s, { ...options, width: 300, nativeWidth: 300 })
+                            if (doc) {
+                                this.props.addDocument(doc, false);
                             }
-                            docs.Data.push(img);
                         }
-                    })()
-
-                })
+                    });
+                    // this.props.addDocument(Documents.WebDocument(s, { ...options, width: 300, height: 300 }), false)
+                }))
             }
             let type = item.type
-            console.log(type)
             if (item.kind == "file") {
-                let fReader = new FileReader()
                 let file = item.getAsFile();
                 let formData = new FormData()
 
@@ -111,41 +181,27 @@ export class CollectionViewBase extends React.Component<SubCollectionViewProps>
                 fetch(upload, {
                     method: 'POST',
                     body: formData
-                })
-                    .then((res: Response) => {
-                        return res.json()
-                    }).then(json => {
-
-                        json.map((file: any) => {
-                            let path = window.location.origin + file
-                            runInAction(() => {
-                                var doc: any;
-
-                                if (type.indexOf("image") !== -1) {
-                                    doc = Documents.ImageDocument(path, { ...options, nativeWidth: 300, width: 300, })
-                                }
-                                if (type.indexOf("video") !== -1) {
-                                    doc = Documents.VideoDocument(path, { ...options, nativeWidth: 300, width: 300, })
+                }).then((res: Response) => {
+                    return res.json()
+                }).then(json => {
+                    json.map((file: any) => {
+                        let path = window.location.origin + file
+                        runInAction(() => {
+                            let doc = this.getDocumentFromType(type, path, { ...options, nativeWidth: 300, width: 300 })
+
+                            let docs = that.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.Data, ListField);
+                            if (docs != FieldWaiting) {
+                                if (!docs) {
+                                    docs = new ListField<Document>();
+                                    that.props.Document.Set(KeyStore.Data, docs)
                                 }
-                                if (type.indexOf("audio") !== -1) {
-                                    doc = Documents.AudioDocument(path, { ...options, nativeWidth: 300, width: 300, })
-                                }
-                                let docs = that.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.Data, ListField);
-                                if (docs != FieldWaiting) {
-                                    if (!docs) {
-                                        docs = new ListField<Document>();
-                                        that.props.Document.Set(KeyStore.Data, docs)
-                                    }
-                                    if (doc) {
-                                        docs.Data.push(doc);
-                                    }
-
+                                if (doc) {
+                                    docs.Data.push(doc);
                                 }
-                            })
+                            }
                         })
                     })
-
-
+                })
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b2f79be1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+.collectionfreeformlinkview-linkLine {
+    stroke: black;
+    stroke-width: 3;
+    transform: translate(10000px,10000px);
+    pointer-events: all;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e84f0c5ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import { observer } from "mobx-react";
+import { Document } from "../../../../fields/Document";
+import { KeyStore } from "../../../../fields/KeyStore";
+import { Utils } from "../../../../Utils";
+import "./CollectionFreeFormLinkView.scss";
+import React = require("react");
+import v5 = require("uuid/v5");
+
+export interface CollectionFreeFormLinkViewProps {
+    A: Document;
+    B: Document;
+    LinkDocs: Document[];
+}
+
+@observer
+export class CollectionFreeFormLinkView extends React.Component<CollectionFreeFormLinkViewProps> {
+
+    onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
+        this.props.LinkDocs.map(l =>
+            console.log("Link:" + l.Title));
+    }
+    render() {
+        let l = this.props.LinkDocs;
+        let a = this.props.A;
+        let b = this.props.B;
+        let x1 = a.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0) + a.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 0) / 2;
+        let y1 = a.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0) + a.GetNumber(KeyStore.Height, 0) / 2;
+        let x2 = b.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0) + b.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 0) / 2;
+        let y2 = b.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0) + b.GetNumber(KeyStore.Height, 0) / 2;
+        return (
+            <line key={Utils.GenerateGuid()} className="collectionfreeformlinkview-linkLine" onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown}
+                style={{ strokeWidth: `${l.length * 5}` }}
+                x1={`${x1}`} y1={`${y1}`}
+                x2={`${x2}`} y2={`${y2}`} />
+        )
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinksView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinksView.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4341c82f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinksView.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+.collectionfreeformlinksview-svgCanvas{
+    transform: translate(-10000px,-10000px);
+    position: absolute;
+    width: 20000px; 
+    height: 20000px;
+    pointer-events: none;
+  }
+  .collectionfreeformlinksview-container {
+    pointer-events: none;
+  }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinksView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinksView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eb20b3100
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinksView.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+import { computed, reaction, runInAction, trace } from "mobx";
+import { observer } from "mobx-react";
+import { Document } from "../../../../fields/Document";
+import { FieldWaiting } from "../../../../fields/Field";
+import { KeyStore } from "../../../../fields/KeyStore";
+import { ListField } from "../../../../fields/ListField";
+import { Utils } from "../../../../Utils";
+import { DocumentManager } from "../../../util/DocumentManager";
+import { DocumentView } from "../../nodes/DocumentView";
+import { CollectionViewProps } from "../CollectionViewBase";
+import "./CollectionFreeFormLinksView.scss";
+import { CollectionFreeFormLinkView } from "./CollectionFreeFormLinkView";
+import React = require("react");
+import v5 = require("uuid/v5");
+
+@observer
+export class CollectionFreeFormLinksView extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
+
+    componentDidMount() {
+        reaction(() => {
+            return DocumentManager.Instance.getAllDocumentViews(this.props.Document).map(dv => dv.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0))
+        }, () => {
+            let views = DocumentManager.Instance.getAllDocumentViews(this.props.Document);
+            for (let i = 0; i < views.length; i++) {
+                for (let j = i + 1; j < views.length; j++) {
+                    let srcDoc = views[j].props.Document;
+                    let dstDoc = views[i].props.Document;
+                    let x1 = srcDoc.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0);
+                    let x1w = srcDoc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, -1);
+                    let x2 = dstDoc.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0);
+                    let x2w = dstDoc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, -1);
+                    if (x1w < 0 || x2w < 0)
+                        continue;
+                    dstDoc.GetTAsync(KeyStore.Prototype, Document).then((protoDest) =>
+                        srcDoc.GetTAsync(KeyStore.Prototype, Document).then((protoSrc) => runInAction(() => {
+                            let dstTarg = (protoDest ? protoDest : dstDoc);
+                            let srcTarg = (protoSrc ? protoSrc : srcDoc);
+                            let findBrush = (field: ListField<Document>) => field.Data.findIndex(brush => {
+                                let bdocs = brush.GetList(KeyStore.BrushingDocs, [] as Document[]);
+                                return (bdocs.length == 0 || (bdocs[0] == dstTarg && bdocs[1] == srcTarg) || (bdocs[0] == srcTarg && bdocs[1] == dstTarg))
+                            });
+                            let brushAction = (field: ListField<Document>) => {
+                                let found = findBrush(field);
+                                if (found != -1)
+                                    field.Data.splice(found, 1);
+                            };
+                            if (Math.abs(x1 + x1w - x2) < 20 || Math.abs(x2 + x2w - x1) < 20) {
+                                let linkDoc: Document = new Document();
+                                linkDoc.SetText(KeyStore.Title, "Histogram Brush");
+                                linkDoc.SetText(KeyStore.LinkDescription, "Brush between " + srcTarg.Title + " and " + dstTarg.Title);
+                                linkDoc.SetData(KeyStore.BrushingDocs, [dstTarg, srcTarg], ListField);
+
+                                brushAction = brushAction = (field: ListField<Document>) => (findBrush(field) == -1) && field.Data.push(linkDoc);
+                            }
+                            dstTarg.GetOrCreateAsync(KeyStore.BrushingDocs, ListField, brushAction);
+                            srcTarg.GetOrCreateAsync(KeyStore.BrushingDocs, ListField, brushAction);
+                        }
+                        )))
+                }
+            }
+        })
+    }
+    documentAnchors(view: DocumentView) {
+        let equalViews = [view];
+        let containerDoc = view.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.AnnotationOn, Document);
+        if (containerDoc && containerDoc != FieldWaiting && containerDoc instanceof Document) {
+            equalViews = DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentViews(containerDoc.GetPrototype() as Document)
+        }
+        return equalViews.filter(sv => sv.props.ContainingCollectionView && sv.props.ContainingCollectionView.props.Document == this.props.Document);
+    }
+
+    @computed
+    get uniqueConnections() {
+        let connections = DocumentManager.Instance.LinkedDocumentViews.reduce((drawnPairs, connection) => {
+            let srcViews = this.documentAnchors(connection.a);
+            let targetViews = this.documentAnchors(connection.b);
+            let possiblePairs: { a: Document, b: Document, }[] = [];
+            srcViews.map(sv => targetViews.map(tv => possiblePairs.push({ a: sv.props.Document, b: tv.props.Document })));
+            possiblePairs.map(possiblePair => {
+                if (!drawnPairs.reduce((found, drawnPair) => {
+                    let match = (possiblePair.a == drawnPair.a && possiblePair.b == drawnPair.b);
+                    if (match) {
+                        if (!drawnPair.l.reduce((found, link) => found || link.Id == connection.l.Id, false))
+                            drawnPair.l.push(connection.l);
+                    }
+                    return match || found;
+                }, false)) {
+                    drawnPairs.push({ a: possiblePair.a, b: possiblePair.b, l: [connection.l] as Document[] });
+                }
+            })
+            return drawnPairs
+        }, [] as { a: Document, b: Document, l: Document[] }[]);
+        return connections.map(c => <CollectionFreeFormLinkView key={Utils.GenerateGuid()} A={c.a} B={c.b} LinkDocs={c.l} />);
+    }
+
+    render() {
+        return (
+            <div className="collectionfreeformlinksview-container">
+                <svg className="collectionfreeformlinksview-svgCanvas">
+                    {this.uniqueConnections}
+                </svg>
+                {this.props.children}
+            </div>
+        );
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..19382e66f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import { action, computed, observable } from "mobx";
+import { observer } from "mobx-react";
+import { Document } from "../../../../fields/Document";
+import { FieldWaiting } from "../../../../fields/Field";
+import { KeyStore } from "../../../../fields/KeyStore";
+import { TextField } from "../../../../fields/TextField";
+import { DragManager } from "../../../util/DragManager";
+import { Transform } from "../../../util/Transform";
+import { undoBatch } from "../../../util/UndoManager";
+import { InkingCanvas } from "../../InkingCanvas";
+import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentView } from "../../nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView";
+import { DocumentContentsView } from "../../nodes/DocumentContentsView";
+import { DocumentViewProps } from "../../nodes/DocumentView";
+import { COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH } from "../CollectionView";
+import { CollectionViewBase, CollectionViewProps, CursorEntry } from "../CollectionViewBase";
+import { CollectionFreeFormLinksView } from "./CollectionFreeFormLinksView";
+import "./CollectionFreeFormView.scss";
+import { MarqueeView } from "./MarqueeView";
+import React = require("react");
+import v5 = require("uuid/v5");
+import { CurrentUserUtils } from "../../../../server/authentication/models/current_user_utils";
+
+@observer
+export class CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors extends React.Component<CollectionViewProps> {
+    protected getCursors(): CursorEntry[] {
+        let doc = this.props.Document;
+        let id = CurrentUserUtils.id;
+        let cursors = doc.GetList<CursorEntry>(KeyStore.Cursors, []);
+        let notMe = cursors.filter(entry => entry.Data[0][0] !== id);
+        return id ? notMe : [];
+    }
+
+    private crosshairs?: HTMLCanvasElement;
+    drawCrosshairs = (backgroundColor: string) => {
+        if (this.crosshairs) {
+            let c = this.crosshairs;
+            let ctx = c.getContext('2d');
+            if (ctx) {
+                ctx.fillStyle = backgroundColor;
+                ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 20, 20);
+
+                ctx.fillStyle = "black";
+                ctx.lineWidth = 0.5;
+
+                ctx.beginPath();
+
+                ctx.moveTo(10, 0);
+                ctx.lineTo(10, 8);
+
+                ctx.moveTo(10, 20);
+                ctx.lineTo(10, 12);
+
+                ctx.moveTo(0, 10);
+                ctx.lineTo(8, 10);
+
+                ctx.moveTo(20, 10);
+                ctx.lineTo(12, 10);
+
+                ctx.stroke();
+
+                // ctx.font = "10px Arial";
+                // ctx.fillText(CurrentUserUtils.email[0].toUpperCase(), 10, 10);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    @computed
+    get sharedCursors() {
+        return this.getCursors().map(entry => {
+            if (entry.Data.length > 0) {
+                let id = entry.Data[0][0];
+                let email = entry.Data[0][1];
+                let point = entry.Data[1];
+                this.drawCrosshairs("#" + v5(id, v5.URL).substring(0, 6).toUpperCase() + "22")
+                return (
+                    <div
+                        key={id}
+                        style={{
+                            position: "absolute",
+                            transform: `translate(${point[0] - 10}px, ${point[1] - 10}px)`,
+                            zIndex: 10000,
+                            transformOrigin: 'center center',
+                        }}
+                    >
+                        <canvas
+                            ref={(el) => { if (el) this.crosshairs = el }}
+                            width={20}
+                            height={20}
+                            style={{
+                                position: 'absolute',
+                                width: "20px",
+                                height: "20px",
+                                opacity: 0.5,
+                                borderRadius: "50%",
+                                border: "2px solid black"
+                            }}
+                        />
+                        <p
+                            style={{
+                                fontSize: 14,
+                                color: "black",
+                                // fontStyle: "italic",
+                                marginLeft: -12,
+                                marginTop: 4
+                            }}
+                        >{email[0].toUpperCase()}</p>
+                    </div>
+                );
+            }
+        })
+    }
+
+    render() {
+        return this.sharedCursors;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..81d21d89a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+@import "../../global_variables";
+
+.collectionfreeformview {
+  position: absolute;
+  top: 0;
+  left: 0;
+  width: 100%;
+  height: 100%;
+  transform-origin: left top;
+}
+.collectionfreeformview-container {
+  .collectionfreeformview > .jsx-parser {
+    position: absolute;
+    height: 100%;
+    width: 100%;
+  }
+
+  //nested freeform views
+  // .collectionfreeformview-container {
+    // background-image: linear-gradient(to right, $light-color-secondary 1px, transparent 1px),
+    //   linear-gradient(to bottom, $light-color-secondary 1px, transparent 1px);
+    // background-size: 30px 30px;
+  // }
+
+  box-shadow: $intermediate-color 0.2vw 0.2vw 0.8vw;
+  border: 0px solid $light-color-secondary;
+  border-radius: $border-radius;
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+  position: relative;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  top: 0;
+  left: 0;
+  width: 100%;
+  height: 100%;
+}
+.collectionfreeformview-overlay {
+  .collectionfreeformview > .jsx-parser {
+    position: absolute;
+    height: 100%;
+  }
+  .formattedTextBox-cont {
+    background: $light-color-secondary;
+  }
+
+  opacity: 0.99;
+  border: 0px solid transparent;
+  border-radius: $border-radius;
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+  position:relative;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  top: 0;
+  left: 0;
+  width: 100%;
+  height: 100%;
+  .collectionfreeformview {
+    .formattedTextBox-cont {
+        background:yellow;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// selection border...?
+.border {
+  border-style: solid;
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+  width: 98%;
+  height: 98%;
+  border-radius: $border-radius;
+}
+
+//this is an animation for the blinking cursor!
+@keyframes blink {
+  0% {
+    opacity: 0;
+  }
+  49% {
+    opacity: 0;
+  }
+  50% {
+    opacity: 1;
+  }
+}
+
+#prevCursor {
+  animation: blink 1s infinite;
+}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c5178f69d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
+import { action, computed, observable, trace } from "mobx";
+import { observer } from "mobx-react";
+import { Document } from "../../../../fields/Document";
+import { FieldWaiting } from "../../../../fields/Field";
+import { KeyStore } from "../../../../fields/KeyStore";
+import { TextField } from "../../../../fields/TextField";
+import { DragManager } from "../../../util/DragManager";
+import { Transform } from "../../../util/Transform";
+import { undoBatch } from "../../../util/UndoManager";
+import { InkingCanvas } from "../../InkingCanvas";
+import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentView } from "../../nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView";
+import { DocumentContentsView } from "../../nodes/DocumentContentsView";
+import { DocumentViewProps } from "../../nodes/DocumentView";
+import { COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH } from "../CollectionView";
+import { CollectionViewBase } from "../CollectionViewBase";
+import { CollectionFreeFormLinksView } from "./CollectionFreeFormLinksView";
+import "./CollectionFreeFormView.scss";
+import { MarqueeView } from "./MarqueeView";
+import React = require("react");
+import v5 = require("uuid/v5");
+import { CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors } from "./CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors";
+import { PreviewCursor } from "./PreviewCursor";
+
+@observer
+export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionViewBase {
+    public _canvasRef = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
+    private _selectOnLoaded: string = ""; // id of document that should be selected once it's loaded (used for click-to-type)
+
+    public addLiveTextBox = (newBox: Document) => {
+        // mark this collection so that when the text box is created we can send it the SelectOnLoad prop to focus itself and receive text input
+        this._selectOnLoaded = newBox.Id;
+        this.addDocument(newBox, false);
+    }
+
+    public addDocument = (newBox: Document, allowDuplicates: boolean) => {
+        let added = this.props.addDocument(newBox, false);
+        this.bringToFront(newBox);
+        return added;
+    }
+
+    public selectDocuments = (docs: Document[]) => {
+        this.props.CollectionView.SelectedDocs.length = 0;
+        docs.map(d => this.props.CollectionView.SelectedDocs.push(d.Id));
+    }
+
+    public getActiveDocuments = () => {
+        var curPage = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, -1);
+        return this.props.Document.GetList(this.props.fieldKey, [] as Document[]).reduce((active, doc) => {
+            var page = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Page, -1);
+            if (page == curPage || page == -1) {
+                active.push(doc);
+            }
+            return active;
+        }, [] as Document[]);
+    }
+
+    @observable public DownX: number = 0;
+    @observable public DownY: number = 0;
+    @observable private _lastX: number = 0;
+    @observable private _lastY: number = 0;
+
+    @computed get panX(): number { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanX, 0) }
+    @computed get panY(): number { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanY, 0) }
+    @computed get scale(): number { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.Scale, 1); }
+    @computed get isAnnotationOverlay() { return this.props.fieldKey && this.props.fieldKey.Id === KeyStore.Annotations.Id; } // bcz: ? Why do we need to compare Id's?
+    @computed get nativeWidth() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeWidth, 0); }
+    @computed get nativeHeight() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeHeight, 0); }
+    @computed get zoomScaling() { return this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.Scale, 1); }
+    @computed get centeringShiftX() { return !this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeWidth, 0) ? this.props.panelWidth() / 2 : 0; }  // shift so pan position is at center of window for non-overlay collections
+    @computed get centeringShiftY() { return !this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeHeight, 0) ? this.props.panelHeight() / 2 : 0; }// shift so pan position is at center of window for non-overlay collections
+
+    @undoBatch
+    @action
+    drop = (e: Event, de: DragManager.DropEvent) => {
+        if (super.drop(e, de)) {
+            if (de.data instanceof DragManager.DocumentDragData) {
+                let screenX = de.x - (de.data.xOffset as number || 0);
+                let screenY = de.y - (de.data.yOffset as number || 0);
+                const [x, y] = this.getTransform().transformPoint(screenX, screenY);
+                let dragDoc = de.data.draggedDocuments[0];
+                let dragX = dragDoc.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0);
+                let dragY = dragDoc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0);
+                de.data.draggedDocuments.map(d => {
+                    let docX = d.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0);
+                    let docY = d.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0);
+                    d.SetNumber(KeyStore.X, x + (docX - dragX));
+                    d.SetNumber(KeyStore.Y, y + (docY - dragY));
+                    if (!d.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 0)) {
+                        d.SetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 300);
+                        d.SetNumber(KeyStore.Height, 300);
+                    }
+                    this.bringToFront(d);
+                })
+            }
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+
+    @action
+    cleanupInteractions = () => {
+        document.removeEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove);
+        document.removeEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp);
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent): void => {
+        if (((e.button === 2 && (!this.isAnnotationOverlay || this.zoomScaling != 1)) || e.button == 0) && this.props.active()) {
+            document.removeEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove);
+            document.addEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove);
+            document.removeEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp);
+            document.addEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp);
+            this._lastX = this.DownX = e.pageX;
+            this._lastY = this.DownY = e.pageY;
+            if (this.props.isSelected())
+                e.stopPropagation();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerUp = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
+        e.stopPropagation();
+
+        this.cleanupInteractions();
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerMove = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
+        if (!e.cancelBubble && this.props.active()) {
+            if ((!this.isAnnotationOverlay || this.zoomScaling != 1) && !e.shiftKey) {
+                let x = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanX, 0);
+                let y = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanY, 0);
+                let [dx, dy] = this.getTransform().transformDirection(e.clientX - this._lastX, e.clientY - this._lastY);
+                this.SetPan(x - dx, y - dy);
+                this._lastX = e.pageX;
+                this._lastY = e.pageY;
+                e.stopPropagation();
+                e.preventDefault();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerWheel = (e: React.WheelEvent): void => {
+        this.props.select(false);
+        e.stopPropagation();
+        let coefficient = 1000;
+
+        if (e.ctrlKey) {
+            var nativeWidth = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeWidth, 0);
+            var nativeHeight = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.NativeHeight, 0);
+            const coefficient = 1000;
+            let deltaScale = (1 - (e.deltaY / coefficient));
+            this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.NativeWidth, nativeWidth * deltaScale);
+            this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.NativeHeight, nativeHeight * deltaScale);
+            e.stopPropagation();
+            e.preventDefault();
+        } else {
+            // if (modes[e.deltaMode] == 'pixels') coefficient = 50;
+            // else if (modes[e.deltaMode] == 'lines') coefficient = 1000; // This should correspond to line-height??
+            let transform = this.getTransform();
+
+            let deltaScale = (1 - (e.deltaY / coefficient));
+            if (deltaScale * this.zoomScaling < 1 && this.isAnnotationOverlay)
+                deltaScale = 1 / this.zoomScaling;
+            let [x, y] = transform.transformPoint(e.clientX, e.clientY);
+
+            let localTransform = this.getLocalTransform()
+            localTransform = localTransform.inverse().scaleAbout(deltaScale, x, y)
+            // console.log(localTransform)
+
+            this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.Scale, localTransform.Scale);
+            this.SetPan(-localTransform.TranslateX / localTransform.Scale, -localTransform.TranslateY / localTransform.Scale);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    private SetPan(panX: number, panY: number) {
+        var x1 = this.getLocalTransform().inverse().Scale;
+        const newPanX = Math.min((1 - 1 / x1) * this.nativeWidth, Math.max(0, panX));
+        const newPanY = Math.min((1 - 1 / x1) * this.nativeHeight, Math.max(0, panY));
+        this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.PanX, this.isAnnotationOverlay ? newPanX : panX);
+        this.props.Document.SetNumber(KeyStore.PanY, this.isAnnotationOverlay ? newPanY : panY);
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onDrop = (e: React.DragEvent): void => {
+        var pt = this.getTransform().transformPoint(e.pageX, e.pageY);
+        super.onDrop(e, { x: pt[0], y: pt[1] });
+    }
+
+    onDragOver = (): void => {
+    }
+
+    @action
+    bringToFront(doc: Document) {
+        const { fieldKey: fieldKey, Document: Document } = this.props;
+
+        const value: Document[] = Document.GetList<Document>(fieldKey, []).slice();
+        value.sort((doc1, doc2) => {
+            if (doc1 === doc) {
+                return 1;
+            }
+            if (doc2 === doc) {
+                return -1;
+            }
+            return doc1.GetNumber(KeyStore.ZIndex, 0) - doc2.GetNumber(KeyStore.ZIndex, 0);
+        }).map((doc, index) => {
+            doc.SetNumber(KeyStore.ZIndex, index + 1)
+        });
+    }
+
+    @computed get backgroundLayout(): string | undefined {
+        let field = this.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.BackgroundLayout, TextField);
+        if (field && field !== FieldWaiting) {
+            return field.Data;
+        }
+    }
+    @computed get overlayLayout(): string | undefined {
+        let field = this.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.OverlayLayout, TextField);
+        if (field && field !== FieldWaiting) {
+            return field.Data;
+        }
+    }
+
+    focusDocument = (doc: Document) => {
+        let x = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0) + doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 0) / 2;
+        let y = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0) + doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Height, 0) / 2;
+        this.SetPan(x, y);
+        this.props.focus(this.props.Document);
+    }
+
+    getDocumentViewProps(document: Document): DocumentViewProps {
+        return {
+            Document: document,
+            AddDocument: this.props.addDocument,
+            RemoveDocument: this.props.removeDocument,
+            ScreenToLocalTransform: this.getTransform,
+            isTopMost: false,
+            SelectOnLoad: document.Id == this._selectOnLoaded,
+            PanelWidth: document.Width,
+            PanelHeight: document.Height,
+            ContentScaling: this.noScaling,
+            ContainingCollectionView: this.props.CollectionView,
+            focus: this.focusDocument
+        }
+    }
+
+    @computed
+    get views() {
+        var curPage = this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.CurPage, -1);
+        return this.props.Document.GetList(this.props.fieldKey, [] as Document[]).filter(doc => doc).reduce((prev, doc) => {
+            var page = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Page, -1);
+            if (page == curPage || page == -1)
+                prev.push(<CollectionFreeFormDocumentView key={doc.Id} {...this.getDocumentViewProps(doc)} />);
+            return prev;
+        }, [] as JSX.Element[])
+    }
+
+    @computed
+    get backgroundView() {
+        return !this.backgroundLayout ? (null) :
+            (<DocumentContentsView {...this.getDocumentViewProps(this.props.Document)}
+                layoutKey={KeyStore.BackgroundLayout} isTopMost={this.props.isTopMost} isSelected={() => false} select={() => { }} />);
+    }
+    @computed
+    get overlayView() {
+        return !this.overlayLayout ? (null) :
+            (<DocumentContentsView {...this.getDocumentViewProps(this.props.Document)}
+                layoutKey={KeyStore.OverlayLayout} isTopMost={this.props.isTopMost} isSelected={() => false} select={() => { }} />);
+    }
+
+    getTransform = (): Transform => this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate(-COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH, -COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH).translate(-this.centeringShiftX, -this.centeringShiftY).transform(this.getLocalTransform())
+    getContainerTransform = (): Transform => this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate(-COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH, -COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH)
+    getLocalTransform = (): Transform => Transform.Identity.scale(1 / this.scale).translate(this.panX, this.panY);
+    noScaling = () => 1;
+    childViews = () => this.views;
+
+    render() {
+        let [dx, dy] = [this.centeringShiftX, this.centeringShiftY];
+
+        const panx: number = -this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanX, 0);
+        const pany: number = -this.props.Document.GetNumber(KeyStore.PanY, 0);
+
+        return (
+            <div className={`collectionfreeformview${this.isAnnotationOverlay ? "-overlay" : "-container"}`}
+                onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown} onPointerMove={(e) => super.setCursorPosition(this.getTransform().transformPoint(e.clientX, e.clientY))}
+                onDrop={this.onDrop.bind(this)} onDragOver={this.onDragOver} onWheel={this.onPointerWheel}
+                style={{ borderWidth: `${COLLECTION_BORDER_WIDTH}px` }} ref={this.createDropTarget}>
+                <MarqueeView container={this} activeDocuments={this.getActiveDocuments} selectDocuments={this.selectDocuments}
+                    addDocument={this.addDocument} removeDocument={this.props.removeDocument}
+                    getContainerTransform={this.getContainerTransform} getTransform={this.getTransform}>
+                    <PreviewCursor container={this} addLiveTextDocument={this.addLiveTextBox}
+                        getContainerTransform={this.getContainerTransform} getTransform={this.getTransform} >
+                        <div className="collectionfreeformview" ref={this._canvasRef}
+                            style={{ transform: `translate(${dx}px, ${dy}px) scale(${this.zoomScaling}, ${this.zoomScaling}) translate(${panx}px, ${pany}px)` }}>
+                            {this.backgroundView}
+                            <CollectionFreeFormLinksView {...this.props}>
+                                <InkingCanvas getScreenTransform={this.getTransform} Document={this.props.Document} >
+                                    {this.childViews}
+                                </InkingCanvas>
+                            </CollectionFreeFormLinksView>
+                            <CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors {...this.props} />
+                        </div>
+                        {this.overlayView}
+                    </PreviewCursor>
+                </MarqueeView>
+            </div>
+        );
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1ee3b244b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+.marqueeView {
+    position: absolute;
+    width:100%;
+    height:100%;
+}
+.marquee {
+    border-style: dashed;
+    box-sizing: border-box;
+    position: absolute;
+    border-width: 1px;
+    border-color: black;
+    pointer-events: none;
+}
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diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e2239c8be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
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+import { action, computed, observable, trace } from "mobx";
+import { observer } from "mobx-react";
+import { Document } from "../../../../fields/Document";
+import { FieldWaiting } from "../../../../fields/Field";
+import { InkField, StrokeData } from "../../../../fields/InkField";
+import { KeyStore } from "../../../../fields/KeyStore";
+import { Documents } from "../../../documents/Documents";
+import { SelectionManager } from "../../../util/SelectionManager";
+import { Transform } from "../../../util/Transform";
+import { InkingCanvas } from "../../InkingCanvas";
+import { CollectionFreeFormView } from "./CollectionFreeFormView";
+import "./MarqueeView.scss";
+import { PreviewCursor } from "./PreviewCursor";
+import React = require("react");
+
+interface MarqueeViewProps {
+    getContainerTransform: () => Transform;
+    getTransform: () => Transform;
+    container: CollectionFreeFormView;
+    addDocument: (doc: Document, allowDuplicates: false) => boolean;
+    activeDocuments: () => Document[];
+    selectDocuments: (docs: Document[]) => void;
+    removeDocument: (doc: Document) => boolean;
+}
+
+@observer
+export class MarqueeView extends React.Component<MarqueeViewProps>
+{
+    @observable _lastX: number = 0;
+    @observable _lastY: number = 0;
+    @observable _downX: number = 0;
+    @observable _downY: number = 0;
+    @observable _used: boolean = false;
+    @observable _visible: boolean = false;
+    static DRAG_THRESHOLD = 4;
+
+    @action
+    cleanupInteractions = (all: boolean = false) => {
+        if (all) {
+            document.removeEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove, true)
+            document.removeEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp, true);
+        } else {
+            this._used = true;
+        }
+        document.removeEventListener("keydown", this.marqueeCommand, true);
+        this._visible = false;
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent): void => {
+        if (e.buttons == 1 && !e.altKey && !e.metaKey && this.props.container.props.active()) {
+            this._downX = this._lastX = e.pageX;
+            this._downY = this._lastY = e.pageY;
+            this._used = false;
+            document.addEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove, true)
+            document.addEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp, true);
+            document.addEventListener("keydown", this.marqueeCommand, true);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerMove = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
+        this._lastX = e.pageX;
+        this._lastY = e.pageY;
+        if (!e.cancelBubble) {
+            if (!this._used && e.buttons == 1 && !e.altKey && !e.metaKey &&
+                (Math.abs(this._lastX - this._downX) > MarqueeView.DRAG_THRESHOLD || Math.abs(this._lastY - this._downY) > MarqueeView.DRAG_THRESHOLD)) {
+                this._visible = true;
+            }
+            e.stopPropagation();
+            e.preventDefault();
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerUp = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
+        this.cleanupInteractions(true);
+        this._visible = false;
+        let mselect = this.marqueeSelect();
+        if (!e.shiftKey) {
+            SelectionManager.DeselectAll(mselect.length ? undefined : this.props.container.props.Document);
+        }
+        this.props.selectDocuments(mselect.length ? mselect : [this.props.container.props.Document]);
+    }
+
+    intersectRect(r1: { left: number, top: number, width: number, height: number },
+        r2: { left: number, top: number, width: number, height: number }) {
+        return !(r2.left > r1.left + r1.width || r2.left + r2.width < r1.left || r2.top > r1.top + r1.height || r2.top + r2.height < r1.top);
+    }
+
+    @computed
+    get Bounds() {
+        let left = this._downX < this._lastX ? this._downX : this._lastX;
+        let top = this._downY < this._lastY ? this._downY : this._lastY;
+        let topLeft = this.props.getTransform().transformPoint(left, top);
+        let size = this.props.getTransform().transformDirection(this._lastX - this._downX, this._lastY - this._downY);
+        return { left: topLeft[0], top: topLeft[1], width: Math.abs(size[0]), height: Math.abs(size[1]) }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    marqueeCommand = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
+        if (e.key == "Backspace" || e.key == "Delete") {
+            this.marqueeSelect().map(d => this.props.removeDocument(d));
+            let ink = this.props.container.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.Ink, InkField);
+            if (ink && ink != FieldWaiting) {
+                this.marqueeInkDelete(ink.Data);
+            }
+            this.cleanupInteractions();
+        }
+        if (e.key == "c") {
+            let bounds = this.Bounds;
+            let selected = this.marqueeSelect().map(d => {
+                this.props.removeDocument(d);
+                d.SetNumber(KeyStore.X, d.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0) - bounds.left - bounds.width / 2);
+                d.SetNumber(KeyStore.Y, d.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0) - bounds.top - bounds.height / 2);
+                d.SetNumber(KeyStore.Page, -1);
+                d.SetText(KeyStore.Title, "" + d.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 0) + " " + d.GetNumber(KeyStore.Height, 0));
+                return d;
+            });
+            let ink = this.props.container.props.Document.GetT(KeyStore.Ink, InkField);
+            let inkData = ink && ink != FieldWaiting ? ink.Data : undefined;
+            //setTimeout(() => {
+            let newCollection = Documents.FreeformDocument(selected, {
+                x: bounds.left,
+                y: bounds.top,
+                panx: 0,
+                pany: 0,
+                width: bounds.width,
+                height: bounds.height,
+                backgroundColor: "Transparent",
+                ink: inkData ? this.marqueeInkSelect(inkData) : undefined,
+                title: "a nested collection"
+            });
+            this.props.addDocument(newCollection, false);
+            this.marqueeInkDelete(inkData);
+            // }, 100);
+            this.cleanupInteractions();
+        }
+    }
+    @action
+    marqueeInkSelect(ink: Map<any, any>) {
+        let idata = new Map();
+        let centerShiftX = 0 - (this.Bounds.left + this.Bounds.width / 2); // moves each point by the offset that shifts the selection's center to the origin.
+        let centerShiftY = 0 - (this.Bounds.top + this.Bounds.height / 2);
+        ink.forEach((value: StrokeData, key: string, map: any) => {
+            if (InkingCanvas.IntersectStrokeRect(value, this.Bounds)) {
+                idata.set(key,
+                    {
+                        pathData: value.pathData.map(val => { return { x: val.x + centerShiftX, y: val.y + centerShiftY } }),
+                        color: value.color,
+                        width: value.width,
+                        tool: value.tool,
+                        page: -1
+                    });
+            }
+        });
+        return idata;
+    }
+
+    @action
+    marqueeInkDelete(ink?: Map<any, any>) {
+        // bcz: this appears to work but when you restart all the deleted strokes come back -- InkField isn't observing its changes so they aren't written to the DB.
+        // ink.forEach((value: StrokeData, key: string, map: any) =>
+        //     InkingCanvas.IntersectStrokeRect(value, this.Bounds) && ink.delete(key));
+
+        if (ink) {
+            let idata = new Map();
+            ink.forEach((value: StrokeData, key: string, map: any) =>
+                !InkingCanvas.IntersectStrokeRect(value, this.Bounds) && idata.set(key, value));
+            this.props.container.props.Document.SetDataOnPrototype(KeyStore.Ink, idata, InkField);
+        }
+    }
+
+    marqueeSelect() {
+        let selRect = this.Bounds;
+        let selection: Document[] = [];
+        this.props.activeDocuments().map(doc => {
+            var x = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.X, 0);
+            var y = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Y, 0);
+            var w = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Width, 0);
+            var h = doc.GetNumber(KeyStore.Height, 0);
+            if (this.intersectRect({ left: x, top: y, width: w, height: h }, selRect))
+                selection.push(doc)
+        })
+        return selection;
+    }
+
+    @computed
+    get marqueeDiv() {
+        let p = this.props.getContainerTransform().transformPoint(this._downX < this._lastX ? this._downX : this._lastX, this._downY < this._lastY ? this._downY : this._lastY);
+        let v = this.props.getContainerTransform().transformDirection(this._lastX - this._downX, this._lastY - this._downY);
+        return <div className="marquee" style={{ transform: `translate(${p[0]}px, ${p[1]}px)`, width: `${Math.abs(v[0])}`, height: `${Math.abs(v[1])}` }} />
+    }
+
+    render() {
+        return <div className="marqueeView" onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown}>
+            {this.props.children}
+            {!this._visible ? (null) : this.marqueeDiv}
+        </div>;
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/PreviewCursor.scss b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/PreviewCursor.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..21210be2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/PreviewCursor.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+
+.previewCursor {
+    color: black;
+    position: absolute;
+    transform-origin: left top;
+    pointer-events: none;
+}
+.previewCursorView {
+    position: absolute;
+    width:100%;
+    height:100%;
+}
+
+//this is an animation for the blinking cursor!
+// @keyframes blink {
+// 	0% {opacity: 0}
+// 	49%{opacity: 0}
+// 	50% {opacity: 1}
+// }
+
+// #previewCursor {
+//      animation: blink 1s infinite;
+// }
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diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/PreviewCursor.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/PreviewCursor.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93c98f7b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/PreviewCursor.tsx
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+import { action, observable, trace, computed, reaction } from "mobx";
+import { observer } from "mobx-react";
+import { Document } from "../../../../fields/Document";
+import { Documents } from "../../../documents/Documents";
+import { Transform } from "../../../util/Transform";
+import { CollectionFreeFormView } from "./CollectionFreeFormView";
+import "./PreviewCursor.scss";
+import React = require("react");
+import { interfaceDeclaration } from "babel-types";
+
+
+export interface PreviewCursorProps {
+    getTransform: () => Transform;
+    getContainerTransform: () => Transform;
+    container: CollectionFreeFormView;
+    addLiveTextDocument: (doc: Document) => void;
+}
+
+@observer
+export class PreviewCursor extends React.Component<PreviewCursorProps>  {
+    @observable _lastX: number = 0;
+    @observable _lastY: number = 0;
+    @observable public _visible: boolean = false;
+    @observable public DownX: number = 0;
+    @observable public DownY: number = 0;
+    _showOnUp: boolean = false;
+
+    @action
+    cleanupInteractions = () => {
+        document.removeEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp, true);
+        document.removeEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove, true);
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
+        if (e.button == 0 && this.props.container.props.active()) {
+            document.removeEventListener("keypress", this.onKeyPress, false);
+            this._showOnUp = true;
+            this.DownX = e.pageX;
+            this.DownY = e.pageY;
+            document.addEventListener("pointerup", this.onPointerUp, true);
+            document.addEventListener("pointermove", this.onPointerMove, true);
+        }
+    }
+    @action
+    onPointerMove = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
+        if (Math.abs(this.DownX - e.clientX) > 4 || Math.abs(this.DownY - e.clientY) > 4) {
+            this._showOnUp = false;
+            this._visible = false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onPointerUp = (e: PointerEvent): void => {
+        if (this._showOnUp) {
+            document.addEventListener("keypress", this.onKeyPress, false);
+            this._lastX = this.DownX;
+            this._lastY = this.DownY;
+            this._visible = true;
+        }
+        this.cleanupInteractions();
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onKeyPress = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
+        // Mixing events between React and Native is finicky.  In FormattedTextBox, we set the
+        // DASHFormattedTextBoxHandled flag when a text box consumes a key press so that we can ignore
+        // the keyPress here.
+        //if not these keys, make a textbox if preview cursor is active!
+        if (!e.ctrlKey && !e.altKey && !e.defaultPrevented && !(e as any).DASHFormattedTextBoxHandled) {
+            //make textbox and add it to this collection
+            let [x, y] = this.props.getTransform().transformPoint(this._lastX, this._lastY);
+            let newBox = Documents.TextDocument({ width: 200, height: 100, x: x, y: y, title: "typed text" });
+            this.props.addLiveTextDocument(newBox);
+            document.removeEventListener("keypress", this.onKeyPress, false);
+            this._visible = false;
+            e.stopPropagation();
+        }
+    }
+
+    getPoint = () => this.props.getContainerTransform().transformPoint(this._lastX, this._lastY);
+    getVisible = () => this._visible;
+    setVisible = (v: boolean) => {
+        this._visible = v;
+        document.removeEventListener("keypress", this.onKeyPress, false);
+    }
+    render() {
+        return (
+            <div className="previewCursorView" onPointerDown={this.onPointerDown}>
+                {this.props.children}
+                <PreviewCursorPrompt setVisible={this.setVisible} getPoint={this.getPoint} getVisible={this.getVisible} />
+            </div>
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+export interface PromptProps {
+    getPoint: () => number[];
+    getVisible: () => boolean;
+    setVisible: (v: boolean) => void;
+}
+
+@observer
+export class PreviewCursorPrompt extends React.Component<PromptProps> {
+    private _promptRef = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
+
+    //when focus is lost, this will remove the preview cursor
+    @action onBlur = (): void => this.props.setVisible(false);
+
+    render() {
+        let p = this.props.getPoint();
+        if (this.props.getVisible() && this._promptRef.current)
+            this._promptRef.current.focus();
+        return <div className="previewCursor" id="previewCursor" onBlur={this.onBlur} tabIndex={0} ref={this._promptRef}
+            style={{ transform: `translate(${p[0]}px, ${p[1]}px)`, opacity: this.props.getVisible() ? 1 : 0 }}>
+            I
+        </div >;
+    }
+}
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