1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
index 0d2cffc2c..9f858539f 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { InkTool } from "../../../../fields/InkField";
 import { List } from "../../../../fields/List";
 import { PrefetchProxy } from "../../../../fields/Proxy";
 import { listSpec } from "../../../../fields/Schema";
-import { BoolCast, Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from "../../../../fields/Types";
+import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, NumCast, StrCast } from "../../../../fields/Types";
 import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, returnOne, returnTrue, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../../Utils';
 import { Docs } from "../../../documents/Documents";
 import { DocumentType } from "../../../documents/DocumentTypes";
@@ -131,17 +131,10 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
         if ((this.targetDoc.type === DocumentType.COL && this.targetDoc._viewType === CollectionViewType.Freeform) || this.targetDoc.type === DocumentType.IMG) return true;
         else return false;
     }
-    @computed get presElement() { return Cast(Doc.UserDoc().presElement, Doc, null); }
     constructor(props: any) {
         super(props);
         if (CurrentUserUtils.ActivePresentation = this.rootDoc) runInAction(() => PresBox.Instance = this);
-        if (!this.presElement) { // create exactly one presElmentBox template to use by any and all presentations.
-            Doc.UserDoc().presElement = new PrefetchProxy(Docs.Create.PresElementBoxDocument({
-                title: "pres element template", type: DocumentType.PRESELEMENT, _fitWidth: true, _xMargin: 0, isTemplateDoc: true, isTemplateForField: "data"
-            }));
-        }
         this.props.Document.presentationFieldKey = this.fieldKey; // provide info to the presElement script so that it can look up rendering information about the presBox
-
     }
     @computed get selectedDocumentView() {
         if (SelectionManager.Views().length) return SelectionManager.Views()[0];
@@ -728,7 +721,7 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
         });
         return true;
     }
-    childLayoutTemplate = () => !this.isTreeOrStack ? undefined : this.presElement;
+    childLayoutTemplate = () => !this.isTreeOrStack ? undefined : DocCast(Doc.UserDoc().presElement);
     removeDocument = (doc: Doc) => Doc.RemoveDocFromList(this.rootDoc, this.fieldKey, doc);
     getTransform = () => this.props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate(-5, -65);// listBox padding-left and pres-box-cont minHeight
     panelHeight = () => this.props.PanelHeight() - 40;