From 5b5730a7df073659cbb6c326f748f7fcbe6625e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bobzel <zzzman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:05:53 -0500
Subject: lots of changes to try to simplify API for viewPaths and related

---
 src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx')

diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
index ad5aabc21..83cabf355 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { DocComponent } from '../DocComponent';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView';
 import './CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.scss';
-import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternalProps, DocumentViewProps, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, DocumentViewProps, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
 import { FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 
 export interface CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapperProps extends DocumentViewProps {
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentView extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeF
         return this._props.CollectionFreeFormView;
     }
 
-    styleProvider = (doc: Doc | undefined, props: Opt<DocumentViewInternalProps | FieldViewProps>, property: string) => {
+    styleProvider = (doc: Doc | undefined, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>, property: string) => {
         if (doc === this.layoutDoc) {
             switch (property) {
                 case StyleProp.Opacity:         return this._props.w_Opacity(); // only change the opacity for this specific document, not its children
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentView extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeF
 
     @action public float = () => {
         const topDoc = this.Document;
-        const containerDocView = this._props.docViewPath().lastElement();
+        const containerDocView = this._props.containerViewPath?.().lastElement();
         const screenXf = containerDocView?.screenToContentsTransform();
         if (screenXf) {
             SelectionManager.DeselectAll();
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentView extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeF
     };
 
     nudge = (x: number, y: number) => {
-        const [locX, locY] = this.ScreenToLocalBoxXf().transformDirection(x, y);
+        const [locX, locY] = this._props.ScreenToLocalTransform().transformDirection(x, y);
         this._props.Document.x = this._props.w_X() + locX;
         this._props.Document.y = this._props.w_Y() + locY;
     };
-- 
cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2


From 001127c07f95173d7036db19d07dcfb1135f3caa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bobzel <zzzman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:45:28 -0500
Subject: fixed schema rows to render, fix for resizing docs from left side.
 all locking docs in non freeform view.  fix for labelBox with multiple rows
 to keep top rows.  cleaned up docViewPath/containerViewPath &

---
 src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts                |  2 +-
 src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx                  | 20 +-------
 src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx           |  9 ++--
 src/client/views/MainView.tsx                      |  7 +--
 src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx              |  6 +--
 src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx                 | 56 +++++++---------------
 .../views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx |  7 ++-
 .../views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx   | 15 +++---
 src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx |  4 ++
 src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx        |  4 +-
 src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx          |  4 +-
 .../collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx  | 17 ++++---
 .../collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx      |  2 +-
 .../CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx                  |  2 +-
 .../CollectionMultirowView.tsx                     |  2 +-
 .../collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.scss     |  3 +-
 .../collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx      |  2 +-
 .../collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx  | 18 ++++++-
 .../views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx | 14 ++++--
 src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx           |  7 ++-
 src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx    | 12 ++---
 src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx            | 29 +++++------
 src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.scss               |  5 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx                |  4 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx           | 11 +++--
 src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx                 |  6 +--
 src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx                  |  1 +
 .../views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx      |  7 ++-
 .../views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.tsx    |  2 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx   |  2 +-
 src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx                 | 13 ++---
 src/client/views/topbar/TopBar.tsx                 |  3 +-
 src/fields/Doc.ts                                  |  5 ++
 33 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 158 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx')

diff --git a/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts b/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
index 7d9cb36c5..0b15e3add 100644
--- a/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ export class CurrentUserUtils {
                 {onClick:"deiconifyView(documentView)", onDoubleClick: "deiconifyViewToLightbox(documentView)", });
         };
         const labelBox = (opts: DocumentOptions, data?:string) => Docs.Create.LabelDocument({
-            textTransform: "unset", letterSpacing: "unset", _singleLine: false, _label_minFontSize: 14, _label_maxFontSize: 24, layout_borderRounding: "5px",  _width: 150, _height: 70, _xPadding: 10, _yPadding: 10, ...opts
+            textTransform: "unset", letterSpacing: "unset", _singleLine: false, _label_minFontSize: 14, _label_maxFontSize: 14, layout_borderRounding: "5px",  _width: 150, _height: 70, _xPadding: 10, _yPadding: 10, ...opts
         });
         const imageBox = (opts: DocumentOptions, url?:string) => Docs.Create.ImageDocument(url ?? "http://www.cs.brown.edu/~bcz/noImage.png", { "icon_nativeWidth": 360 / 4, "icon_nativeHeight": 270 / 4, iconTemplate:DocumentType.IMG,  _width: 360 / 4, _height: 270 / 4,  _layout_showTitle: "title", ...opts });
         const fontBox = (opts:DocumentOptions, data?:string) => Docs.Create.FontIconDocument({ _nativeHeight: 30, _nativeWidth: 30, _width: 30, _height: 30, ...opts  });
diff --git a/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx b/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
index 4400b3576..6aba4a042 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { action, computed, makeObservable, observable } from 'mobx';
 import * as React from 'react';
-import { emptyPath, returnFalse } from '../../Utils';
+import { returnFalse } from '../../Utils';
 import { DateField } from '../../fields/DateField';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
 import { AclAdmin, AclAugment, AclEdit, AclPrivate, AclReadonly, DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export function DocComponent<P extends DocComponentProps>() {
         }
         // This is the data part of a document -- ie, the data that is constant across all views of the document
         @computed get dataDoc() {
-            return this._props.Document[DocData] as Doc;
+            return this._props.Document[DocData];
         }
     }
     return Component;
@@ -55,16 +55,12 @@ export interface ViewBoxBaseProps {
     Document: Doc;
     TemplateDataDocument?: Doc;
     DocumentView?: () => DocumentView;
-    containerViewPath?: () => DocumentView[];
     fieldKey: string;
     isSelected: () => boolean;
     isContentActive: () => boolean | undefined;
     ScreenToLocalTransform: () => Transform;
     renderDepth: number;
 }
-function returnEmptyDocViewList() {
-    return [] as DocumentView[];
-}
 export function ViewBoxBaseComponent<P extends ViewBoxBaseProps>() {
     class Component extends ObservableReactComponent<React.PropsWithChildren<P>> {
         ScreenToLocalBoxXf = () => this._props.ScreenToLocalTransform();
@@ -72,12 +68,6 @@ export function ViewBoxBaseComponent<P extends ViewBoxBaseProps>() {
         get DocumentView() {
             return this._props.DocumentView;
         }
-        get docViewPath() {
-            return this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
-        }
-        get containerViewPath() {
-            return this._props.containerViewPath;
-        }
         //TODO This might be pretty inefficient if doc isn't observed, because computed doesn't cache then
         get Document() {
             return this._props.Document;
@@ -132,12 +122,6 @@ export function ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<P extends ViewBoxAnnotatableProps>()
         get DocumentView() {
             return this._props.DocumentView;
         }
-        get docViewPath() {
-            return this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
-        }
-        get containerViewPath() {
-            return this.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
-        }
         //TODO This might be pretty inefficient if doc isn't observed, because computed doesn't cache then
         @computed get Document() {
             return this._props.Document;
diff --git a/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx b/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
index c96253405..8db972ef0 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
@@ -344,10 +344,7 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentDecora
             e,
             returnFalse, // don't care about move or up event,
             emptyFunction, // just care about whether we get a click event
-            e => UndoManager.RunInBatch(
-                () => SelectionManager.Docs.forEach(doc =>
-                        doc._pointerEvents = (doc._lockedPosition = !doc._lockedPosition)? 'none' : undefined ),
-                'toggleBackground' ) // prettier-ignore
+            e => UndoManager.RunInBatch(() => SelectionManager.Docs.forEach(doc => Doc.toggleLockedPosition(doc)), 'toggleBackground')
         );
         e.stopPropagation();
     };
@@ -530,7 +527,7 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentDecora
             doc.xPadding = NumCast(doc.xPadding) * scale.x;
             doc.yPadding = NumCast(doc.yPadding) * scale.y;
         } else {
-            const refCent = docView.screenToContentsTransform().transformPoint(refPt[0], refPt[1]); // fixed reference point for resize (ie, a point that doesn't move)
+            const refCent = docView.screenToViewTransform().transformPoint(refPt[0], refPt[1]); // fixed reference point for resize (ie, a point that doesn't move)
             const [nwidth, nheight] = [docView.nativeWidth, docView.nativeHeight];
             const [initWidth, initHeight] = [NumCast(doc._width, 1), NumCast(doc._height)];
 
@@ -689,7 +686,7 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentDecora
         );
 
         const bounds = this.ClippedBounds;
-        const useLock = bounds.r - bounds.x > 135 && seldocview.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView;
+        const useLock = bounds.r - bounds.x > 135;
         const useRotation = !hideResizers && seldocview.Document.type !== DocumentType.EQUATION && seldocview.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView; // when do we want an object to not rotate?
         const rotation = SelectionManager.Views.length == 1 ? seldocview.screenToContentsTransform().inverse().RotateDeg : 0;
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/MainView.tsx b/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
index cd6aeea41..d700ea020 100644
--- a/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
@@ -56,13 +56,11 @@ import { CollectionLinearView } from './collections/collectionLinear';
 import { LinkMenu } from './linking/LinkMenu';
 import { AudioBox } from './nodes/AudioBox';
 import { DocButtonState } from './nodes/DocumentLinksButton';
-import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod } from './nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod, returnEmptyDocViewList } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 import { ImageBox } from './nodes/ImageBox';
 import { LinkDescriptionPopup } from './nodes/LinkDescriptionPopup';
 import { LinkDocPreview, LinkInfo } from './nodes/LinkDocPreview';
 import { MapAnchorMenu } from './nodes/MapBox/MapAnchorMenu';
-import { MapBox } from './nodes/MapBox/MapBox';
-import { RadialMenu } from './nodes/RadialMenu';
 import { TaskCompletionBox } from './nodes/TaskCompletedBox';
 import { DashFieldViewMenu } from './nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
@@ -898,6 +896,7 @@ export class MainView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
             <div className="mainView-docButtons" style={{ background: SettingsManager.userBackgroundColor, color: SettingsManager.userColor }} ref={this._docBtnRef}>
                 <CollectionLinearView
                     Document={Doc.MyDockedBtns}
+                    docViewPath={returnEmptyDocViewList}
                     fieldKey="data"
                     dropAction="embed"
                     styleProvider={DefaultStyleProvider}
@@ -906,7 +905,6 @@ export class MainView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
                     isAnyChildContentActive={returnFalse}
                     isContentActive={emptyFunction}
                     isSelected={returnFalse}
-                    containerViewPath={returnEmptyDoclist}
                     moveDocument={this.moveButtonDoc}
                     addDocument={this.addButtonDoc}
                     addDocTab={DocumentViewInternal.addDocTabFunc}
@@ -1021,7 +1019,6 @@ export class MainView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
                 <PreviewCursor />
                 <TaskCompletionBox />
                 <ContextMenu />
-                <RadialMenu />
                 <AnchorMenu />
                 <MapAnchorMenu />
                 <DirectionsAnchorMenu />
diff --git a/src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx b/src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx
index cfdc648b4..d0516336c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ export class MarqueeAnnotator extends ObservableReactComponent<MarqueeAnnotatorP
         const savedAnnoMap = savedAnnotations?.values() && Array.from(savedAnnotations?.values()).length ? savedAnnotations : this.props.savedAnnotations();
         if (savedAnnoMap.size === 0) return undefined;
         const savedAnnos = Array.from(savedAnnoMap.values())[0];
-        const doc = this.props.docView().Document;
+        const doc = this.props.Document;
         const scale = (this.props.annotationLayerScaling?.() || 1) * NumCast(doc._freeform_scale, 1);
         if (savedAnnos.length && (savedAnnos[0] as any).marqueeing) {
             const anno = savedAnnos[0];
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ export class MarqueeAnnotator extends ObservableReactComponent<MarqueeAnnotatorP
                       dragComplete: e => {
                           if (!e.aborted && e.linkDocument) {
                               Doc.GetProto(e.linkDocument).link_relationship = 'cropped image';
-                              Doc.GetProto(e.linkDocument).title = 'crop: ' + this.props.docView().Document.title;
+                              Doc.GetProto(e.linkDocument).title = 'crop: ' + this.props.Document.title;
                               Doc.GetProto(e.linkDocument).link_displayLine = false;
                           }
                       },
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ export class MarqueeAnnotator extends ObservableReactComponent<MarqueeAnnotatorP
             // configure and show the annotation/link menu if a the drag region is big enough
             // copy the temporary marquee to allow for multiple selections (not currently available though).
             const copy = document.createElement('div');
-            const scale = (this.props.scaling?.() || 1) * NumCast(this.props.docView().Document._freeform_scale, 1);
+            const scale = (this.props.scaling?.() || 1) * NumCast(this.props.Document._freeform_scale, 1);
             ['border', 'opacity', 'top', 'left', 'width', 'height'].forEach(prop => (copy.style[prop as any] = marqueeStyle[prop as any]));
             copy.className = 'marqueeAnnotator-annotationBox';
             copy.style.top = parseInt(marqueeStyle.top.toString().replace('px', '')) / scale + this.props.scrollTop + 'px';
diff --git a/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx b/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
index 491a72c08..1cb5ff249 100644
--- a/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import { SnappingManager } from '../util/SnappingManager';
 import { undoBatch, UndoManager } from '../util/UndoManager';
 import { TreeSort } from './collections/TreeSort';
 import { Colors } from './global/globalEnums';
-import { DocumentViewProps } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FieldViewProps } from './nodes/FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from './nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { PropertiesView } from './PropertiesView';
@@ -51,21 +50,7 @@ export enum StyleProp {
 }
 
 function toggleLockedPosition(doc: Doc) {
-    UndoManager.RunInBatch(
-        () =>
-            runInAction(() => {
-                doc._lockedPosition = !doc._lockedPosition;
-                doc._pointerEvents = doc._lockedPosition ? 'none' : undefined;
-            }),
-        'toggleBackground'
-    );
-}
-
-export function testDocProps(toBeDetermined: any): toBeDetermined is DocumentViewProps {
-    return toBeDetermined?.isContentActive ? toBeDetermined : undefined;
-}
-export function testFieldProps(toBeDetermined: any): toBeDetermined is FieldViewProps {
-    return toBeDetermined?.isContentActive ? toBeDetermined : undefined;
+    UndoManager.RunInBatch(() => Doc.toggleLockedPosition(doc), 'toggleBackground');
 }
 
 export function wavyBorderPath(pw: number, ph: number, inset: number = 0.05) {
@@ -82,19 +67,17 @@ export function wavyBorderPath(pw: number, ph: number, inset: number = 0.05) {
 //
 export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>, property: string): any {
     const remoteDocHeader = 'author;author_date;noMargin';
-    const docProps = testDocProps(props) ? props : undefined;
-    const fieldProps = testFieldProps(props) ? props : undefined;
     const isCaption = property.includes(':caption');
     const isAnchor = property.includes(':anchor');
     const isNonTransparent = property.includes(':nonTransparent');
     const isNonTransparentLevel = isNonTransparent ? Number(property.replace(/.*:nonTransparent([0-9]+).*/, '$1')) : 0; // property.includes(':nonTransparent');
     const isContent = property.includes(':content');
     const isAnnotated = property.includes(':annotated');
-    const isInk = () => doc?._layout_isSvg && !docProps?.LayoutTemplateString;
+    const isInk = () => doc?._layout_isSvg && !props?.LayoutTemplateString;
     const isOpen = property.includes(':open');
     const isEmpty = property.includes(':empty');
     const boxBackground = property.includes(':box');
-    const fieldKey = fieldProps?.fieldKey ? fieldProps.fieldKey + '_' : isCaption ? 'caption_' : '';
+    const fieldKey = props?.fieldKey ? props.fieldKey + '_' : isCaption ? 'caption_' : '';
     const lockedPosition = () => doc && BoolCast(doc._lockedPosition);
     const titleHeight = () => props?.styleProvider?.(doc, props, StyleProp.TitleHeight);
     const backgroundCol = () => props?.styleProvider?.(doc, props, StyleProp.BackgroundColor + ':nonTransparent' + (isNonTransparentLevel + 1));
@@ -137,20 +120,19 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
             return  undefined;
         case StyleProp.DocContents:return undefined;
         case StyleProp.WidgetColor:return isAnnotated ? Colors.LIGHT_BLUE : 'dimgrey';
-        case StyleProp.Opacity:    return docProps?.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) ? 1 : doc?.text_inlineAnnotations ? 0 :  Cast(doc?._opacity, "number", Cast(doc?.opacity, 'number', null));
+        case StyleProp.Opacity:    return props?.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) ? 1 : doc?.text_inlineAnnotations ? 0 :  Cast(doc?._opacity, "number", Cast(doc?.opacity, 'number', null));
         case StyleProp.FontSize:   return StrCast(doc?.[fieldKey + 'fontSize'],   StrCast(doc?._text_fontSize,   StrCast(Doc.UserDoc().fontSize)));
         case StyleProp.FontFamily: return StrCast(doc?.[fieldKey + 'fontFamily'], StrCast(doc?._text_fontFamily, StrCast(Doc.UserDoc().fontFamily)));
         case StyleProp.FontWeight: return StrCast(doc?.[fieldKey + 'fontWeight'], StrCast(doc?._text_fontWeight, StrCast(Doc.UserDoc().fontWeight)));
         case StyleProp.FillColor:  return StrCast(doc?._fillColor, StrCast(doc?.fillColor, 'transparent'));
         case StyleProp.ShowCaption:return doc?._type_collection === CollectionViewType.Carousel ? undefined: StrCast(doc?._layout_showCaption);
-        case StyleProp.TitleHeight:
-            return (props?.DocumentView?.().screenToViewTransform().Scale ?? 1) * NumCast(Doc.UserDoc().headerHeight,30)
+        case StyleProp.TitleHeight:return (props?.ScreenToLocalTransform().Scale ?? 1) * NumCast(Doc.UserDoc().headerHeight,30);
         case StyleProp.ShowTitle:
             return (
                 (doc &&
-                    !docProps?.LayoutTemplateString &&
+                    !props?.LayoutTemplateString &&
                     !doc.presentation_targetDoc &&
-                    !docProps?.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) &&
+                    !props?.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) &&
                     props?.layout_showTitle?.() !== '' &&
                     StrCast(
                         doc._layout_showTitle,
@@ -169,7 +151,6 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
             if (doc?.type === DocumentType.FONTICON) return SettingsManager.userColor;
             const docColor: Opt<string> = StrCast(doc?.[fieldKey + 'color'], StrCast(doc?._color));
             if (docColor) return docColor;
-            const parView = props?.DocumentView?.();
             const backColor = backgroundCol();
             return backColor ? lightOrDark(backColor) : undefined;
         case StyleProp.BorderRounding:
@@ -247,7 +228,7 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
                         doc?.layout_boxShadow,
                         doc?._type_collection === CollectionViewType.Pile
                             ? '4px 4px 10px 2px'
-                            : lockedPosition() || doc?.isGroup || docProps?.LayoutTemplateString
+                            : lockedPosition() || doc?.isGroup || props?.LayoutTemplateString
                             ? undefined // groups have no drop shadow -- they're supposed to be "invisible".  LayoutString's imply collection is being rendered as something else (e.g., title of a Slide)
                             : `${Colors.DARK_GRAY} ${StrCast(doc.layout_boxShadow, '0.2vw 0.2vw 0.8vw')}`
                     );
@@ -257,10 +238,10 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
                 default:
                     return doc.z
                         ? `#9c9396  ${StrCast(doc?.layout_boxShadow, '10px 10px 0.9vw')}` // if it's a floating doc, give it a big shadow
-                        : props?.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath?.().lastElement()?.Document._freeform_useClusters
-                        ? `${backgroundCol()} ${StrCast(doc.layout_boxShadow, `0vw 0vw ${(lockedPosition() ? 100 : 50) / (docProps?.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1)}px`)}` // if it's just in a cluster, make the shadown roughly match the cluster border extent
+                        : props?.containerViewPath?.().lastElement()?.Document._freeform_useClusters
+                        ? `${backgroundCol()} ${StrCast(doc.layout_boxShadow, `0vw 0vw ${(lockedPosition() ? 100 : 50) / (props?.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1)}px`)}` // if it's just in a cluster, make the shadown roughly match the cluster border extent
                         : NumCast(doc.group, -1) !== -1
-                        ? `gray ${StrCast(doc.layout_boxShadow, `0vw 0vw ${(lockedPosition() ? 100 : 50) / (docProps?.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1)}px`)}` // if it's just in a cluster, make the shadown roughly match the cluster border extent
+                        ? `gray ${StrCast(doc.layout_boxShadow, `0vw 0vw ${(lockedPosition() ? 100 : 50) / (props?.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1)}px`)}` // if it's just in a cluster, make the shadown roughly match the cluster border extent
                         : lockedPosition()
                         ? undefined // if it's a background & has a cluster color, make the shadow spread really big
                         : StrCast(doc.layout_fieldKey).includes('_inline')  // if doc is an inline document in a text box
@@ -271,8 +252,8 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
             }
         }
         case StyleProp.PointerEvents:
-            if (StrCast(doc?.pointerEvents) && !docProps?.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name)) return StrCast(doc!.pointerEvents); // honor pointerEvents field (set by lock button usually) if it's not a keyValue view of the Doc
-            if (docProps?.DocumentView?.()._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name)) return 'all';
+            if (StrCast(doc?.pointerEvents) && !props?.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name)) return StrCast(doc!.pointerEvents); // honor pointerEvents field (set by lock button usually) if it's not a keyValue view of the Doc
+            if (props?.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name)) return 'all';
             if (SnappingManager.ExploreMode || doc?.layout_unrendered) return isInk() ? 'visiblePainted' : 'all';
             if (props?.pointerEvents?.() === 'none') return 'none';
             if (opacity() === 0) return 'none';
@@ -281,22 +262,17 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
             if (props?.isDocumentActive?.() && !props.treeViewDoc) return isInk() ? 'visiblePainted' : 'all';
             return undefined; // fixes problem with tree view elements getting pointer events when the tree view is not active
         case StyleProp.Decorations:
-            const lock = () => {
-                if (props?.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath?.().lastElement()?.Document?._type_collection === CollectionViewType.Freeform) {
-                    return doc?.pointerEvents !== 'none' ? null : (
+            const lock = () => doc?.pointerEvents !== 'none' ? null : (
                         <div className="styleProvider-lock" onClick={() => toggleLockedPosition(doc)}>
                             <FontAwesomeIcon icon='lock' size="lg" />
                         </div>
                     );
-                }
-            };
             const filter = () => {
-                const docView = props?.DocumentView?.();
                 const dashView = untracked(() => DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(Doc.ActiveDashboard));
                 const showFilterIcon =
                     StrListCast(doc?._childFilters).length || StrListCast(doc?._childFiltersByRanges).length
                         ? 'green' // #18c718bd' //'hasFilter'
-                        : docProps?.childFilters?.().filter(f => Utils.IsRecursiveFilter(f) && f !== Utils.noDragDocsFilter).length || docProps?.childFiltersByRanges().length
+                        : props?.childFilters?.().filter(f => Utils.IsRecursiveFilter(f) && f !== Utils.noDragDocsFilter).length || props?.childFiltersByRanges().length
                         ? 'orange' //'inheritsFilter'
                         : undefined;
                 return !showFilterIcon ? null : (
@@ -327,7 +303,7 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
                                 "this view inherits filters from one of its parents"}
                             color={SettingsManager.userColor}
                             background={showFilterIcon}
-                            items={[ ...(dashView ? [dashView]: []), ...(docView?.containerViewPath?.()??[]), ...(docView ? [docView]:[])]
+                            items={[ ...(dashView ? [dashView]: []), ...(props?.docViewPath?.()??[])]
                                     .filter(dv => StrListCast(dv?.Document.childFilters).length || StrListCast(dv?.Document.childRangeFilters).length)
                                     .map(dv => ({
                                 text: StrCast(dv?.Document.title),
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
index 92c8e1256..363db8850 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ export class CollectionNoteTakingView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 PanelWidth={width}
                 PanelHeight={height}
                 styleProvider={this.styleProvider}
-                containerViewPath={this.docViewPath}
+                containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
                 layout_fitWidth={this._props.childLayoutFitWidth}
                 isContentActive={emptyFunction}
                 onKey={this.onKeyDown}
@@ -407,10 +407,9 @@ export class CollectionNoteTakingView extends CollectionSubView() {
 
     @undoBatch
     onKeyDown = (e: React.KeyboardEvent, fieldProps: FieldViewProps) => {
-        const docView = fieldProps.DocumentView?.();
-        if (docView && (e.ctrlKey || docView.Document._createDocOnCR) && ['Enter'].includes(e.key)) {
+        if ((e.ctrlKey || fieldProps.Document._createDocOnCR) && ['Enter'].includes(e.key)) {
             e.stopPropagation?.();
-            const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(docView.Document, true);
+            const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(fieldProps.Document, true);
             Doc.GetProto(newDoc).text = undefined;
             FormattedTextBox.SetSelectOnLoad(newDoc);
             return this.addDocument?.(newDoc);
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
index 0a0218124..9384b7088 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
@@ -278,16 +278,15 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     };
     @undoBatch
     onKeyDown = (e: React.KeyboardEvent, fieldProps: FieldViewProps) => {
-        const docView = fieldProps.DocumentView?.();
-        if (docView && ['Enter'].includes(e.key) && e.ctrlKey) {
+        if (['Enter'].includes(e.key) && e.ctrlKey) {
             e.stopPropagation?.();
             const below = !e.altKey && e.key !== 'Tab';
-            const layout_fieldKey = StrCast(docView.LayoutFieldKey);
-            const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(docView.Document, true);
-            const dataField = docView.Document[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc)];
+            const layout_fieldKey = StrCast(fieldProps.fieldKey);
+            const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(fieldProps.Document, true);
+            const dataField = fieldProps.Document[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc)];
             newDoc[DocData][Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc)] = dataField === undefined || Cast(dataField, listSpec(Doc), null)?.length !== undefined ? new List<Doc>([]) : undefined;
-            if (layout_fieldKey !== 'layout' && docView.Document[layout_fieldKey] instanceof Doc) {
-                newDoc[layout_fieldKey] = docView.Document[layout_fieldKey];
+            if (layout_fieldKey !== 'layout' && fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey] instanceof Doc) {
+                newDoc[layout_fieldKey] = fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey];
             }
             Doc.GetProto(newDoc).text = undefined;
             FormattedTextBox.SetSelectOnLoad(newDoc);
@@ -327,7 +326,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 PanelHeight={panelHeight}
                 pointerEvents={this.DocumentView?.()._props.onClick?.() ? returnNone : undefined} // if the stack has an onClick, then we don't want the contents to be interactive (see CollectionPileView)
                 styleProvider={this.styleProvider}
-                containerViewPath={this.docViewPath}
+                containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
                 layout_fitWidth={this.childFitWidth}
                 isContentActive={doc.onClick ? this.isChildButtonContentActive : this.isChildContentActive}
                 onKey={this.onKeyDown}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
index 2e0a75281..d7c42a975 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import { ViewBoxBaseComponent, ViewBoxBaseProps } from '../DocComponent';
 import { LoadingBox } from '../nodes/LoadingBox';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { CollectionView, CollectionViewProps } from './CollectionView';
+import { returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 
 export interface SubCollectionViewProps extends CollectionViewProps {
     isAnyChildContentActive: () => boolean;
@@ -69,6 +70,9 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
                   : Doc.GetProto(this._props.Document); // if the layout document has a resolvedDataDoc, then we don't want to get its parent which would be the unexpanded template
         }
 
+        get childContainerViewPath() {
+            return this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
+        }
         // this returns whether either the collection is selected, or the template that it is part of is selected
         rootSelected = () => this._props.isSelected() || BoolCast(this._props.TemplateDataDocument && this._props.rootSelected?.());
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
index 2441c67e6..f00e42360 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import { LightboxView } from '../LightboxView';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider, StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { Colors } from '../global/globalEnums';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, DocumentViewProps, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod, returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from '../nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { DashFieldView } from '../nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView';
 import { PinProps, PresBox, PresMovement } from '../nodes/trails';
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ export class TabMinimapView extends ObservableReactComponent<TabMinimapViewProps
             <div className="miniMap" style={{ width: miniSize, height: miniSize, background: this._props.background() }}>
                 <CollectionFreeFormView
                     Document={this._props.document}
-                    containerViewPath={returnEmptyDoclist}
+                    docViewPath={returnEmptyDocViewList}
                     childLayoutTemplate={this.childLayoutTemplate} // bcz: Ugh .. should probably be rendering a CollectionView or the minimap should be part of the collectionFreeFormView to avoid having to set stuff like this.
                     noOverlay={true} // don't render overlay Docs since they won't scale
                     isContentActive={emptyFunction}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
index 41720d0dd..9f40edee1 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ export class TreeView extends ObservableReactComponent<TreeViewProps> {
                 hideResizeHandles={this.treeView.outlineMode}
                 styleProvider={this.titleStyleProvider}
                 onClickScriptDisable="never" // tree docViews have a script to show fields, etc.
-                containerViewPath={this.treeView.docViewPath}
+                containerViewPath={this.treeView.childContainerViewPath}
                 treeViewDoc={this.treeView.Document}
                 addDocument={undefined}
                 addDocTab={this._props.addDocTab}
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ export class TreeView extends ObservableReactComponent<TreeViewProps> {
                     ScreenToLocalTransform={this.docTransform}
                     renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
                     treeViewDoc={this.treeView?.Document}
-                    containerViewPath={this.treeView.docViewPath}
+                    containerViewPath={this.treeView.childContainerViewPath}
                     childFilters={returnEmptyFilter}
                     childFiltersByRanges={returnEmptyFilter}
                     searchFilterDocs={returnEmptyDoclist}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
index 3eaf1876c..c4358747b 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
@@ -1170,18 +1170,17 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
 
     @undoBatch
     onKeyDown = (e: React.KeyboardEvent, fieldProps: FieldViewProps) => {
-        const docView = fieldProps.DocumentView?.();
-        if (docView && (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey || e.altKey || docView.Document._createDocOnCR) && ['Tab', 'Enter'].includes(e.key)) {
+        if ((e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey || e.altKey || fieldProps.Document._createDocOnCR) && ['Tab', 'Enter'].includes(e.key)) {
             e.stopPropagation?.();
             const below = !e.altKey && e.key !== 'Tab';
-            const layout_fieldKey = StrCast(docView.LayoutFieldKey);
-            const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(docView.Document, true);
-            const dataField = docView.Document[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc)];
+            const layout_fieldKey = StrCast(fieldProps.fieldKey);
+            const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(fieldProps.Document, true);
+            const dataField = fieldProps.Document[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc)];
             newDoc[DocData][Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc)] = dataField === undefined || Cast(dataField, listSpec(Doc), null)?.length !== undefined ? new List<Doc>([]) : undefined;
-            if (below) newDoc.y = NumCast(docView.Document.y) + NumCast(docView.Document._height) + 10;
-            else newDoc.x = NumCast(docView.Document.x) + NumCast(docView.Document._width) + 10;
-            if (layout_fieldKey !== 'layout' && docView.Document[layout_fieldKey] instanceof Doc) {
-                newDoc[layout_fieldKey] = docView.Document[layout_fieldKey];
+            if (below) newDoc.y = NumCast(fieldProps.Document.y) + NumCast(fieldProps.Document._height) + 10;
+            else newDoc.x = NumCast(fieldProps.Document.x) + NumCast(fieldProps.Document._width) + 10;
+            if (layout_fieldKey !== 'layout' && fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey] instanceof Doc) {
+                newDoc[layout_fieldKey] = fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey];
             }
             Doc.GetProto(newDoc).text = undefined;
             FormattedTextBox.SetSelectOnLoad(newDoc);
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx
index 4f4c674ea..72bdb9b6b 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionLinear/CollectionLinearView.tsx
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ export class CollectionLinearView extends CollectionSubView() {
                     dontRegisterView={BoolCast(this.Document.childDontRegisterViews)}
                     focus={emptyFunction}
                     styleProvider={this._props.styleProvider}
-                    containerViewPath={this.docViewPath}
+                    containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
                     whenChildContentsActiveChanged={emptyFunction}
                     bringToFront={emptyFunction}
                     childFilters={this._props.childFilters}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx
index 1fd514ccb..40b4151fe 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ export class CollectionMulticolumnView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 Document={childLayout}
                 TemplateDataDocument={childLayout.resolvedDataDoc as Doc}
                 styleProvider={this._props.styleProvider}
-                containerViewPath={this.docViewPath}
+                containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
                 LayoutTemplate={this._props.childLayoutTemplate}
                 LayoutTemplateString={this._props.childLayoutString}
                 renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView.tsx
index 98e39cd36..04a4042f1 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView.tsx
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ export class CollectionMultirowView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 Document={layout}
                 TemplateDataDocument={layout.resolvedDataDoc as Doc}
                 styleProvider={this._props.styleProvider}
-                containerViewPath={this.docViewPath}
+                containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
                 LayoutTemplate={this._props.childLayoutTemplate}
                 LayoutTemplateString={this._props.childLayoutString}
                 renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.scss b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.scss
index 02131ae22..29d121974 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.scss
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.scss
@@ -210,8 +210,9 @@
     border: 1px solid $medium-gray;
     overflow-x: hidden;
     overflow-y: auto;
-    padding: 5px;
     display: inline-flex;
+    padding: 0;
+    align-items: center;
 }
 
 .schema-row {
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
index e22a666c5..227274a53 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ class CollectionSchemaViewDoc extends ObservableReactComponent<CollectionSchemaV
             <DocumentView
                 key={this._props.doc[Id]}
                 {...this._props.schema._props}
-                containerViewPath={this._props.schema.docViewPath}
+                containerViewPath={this._props.schema.childContainerViewPath}
                 LayoutTemplate={this._props.schema._props.childLayoutTemplate}
                 LayoutTemplateString={SchemaRowBox.LayoutString(this._props.schema._props.fieldKey, this._props.index)}
                 Document={this._props.doc}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx
index 8e1fba699..3f94e7fc1 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { computed, makeObservable } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import { computedFn } from 'mobx-utils';
 import * as React from 'react';
-import { CgClose } from 'react-icons/cg';
+import { CgClose, CgLock, CgLockUnlock } from 'react-icons/cg';
 import { FaExternalLinkAlt } from 'react-icons/fa';
 import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../../Utils';
 import { Doc } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
@@ -120,6 +120,22 @@ export class SchemaRowBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & SchemaRo
                         width: CollectionSchemaView._rowMenuWidth,
                         pointerEvents: !this._props.isContentActive() ? 'none' : undefined,
                     }}>
+                    <IconButton
+                        tooltip="whether document interations are enabled"
+                        icon={this.Document._lockedPosition ? <CgLockUnlock size="12px" /> : <CgLock size="12px" />}
+                        size={Size.XSMALL}
+                        onPointerDown={e =>
+                            setupMoveUpEvents(
+                                this,
+                                e,
+                                returnFalse,
+                                emptyFunction,
+                                undoable(e => {
+                                    e.stopPropagation();
+                                    Doc.toggleLockedPosition(this.Document);
+                                }, 'Delete Row')
+                            )
+                        }></IconButton>
                     <IconButton
                         tooltip="close"
                         icon={<CgClose size={'16px'} />}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
index 83cabf355..73709c17e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { DocumentManager } from '../../util/DocumentManager';
 import { ScriptingGlobals } from '../../util/ScriptingGlobals';
 import { SelectionManager } from '../../util/SelectionManager';
 import { DocComponent } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView';
 import './CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.scss';
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ export interface CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapperProps extends DocumentView
     CollectionFreeFormView: CollectionFreeFormView;
 }
 @observer
-export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapper extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapperProps & { fieldKey: string }>() implements CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps {
+export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapper extends ObservableReactComponent<CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapperProps> implements CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps {
     constructor(props: any) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
@@ -59,6 +60,9 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapper extends DocComponent<Collecti
     CollectionFreeFormView = this.props.CollectionFreeFormView; // needed for type checking
     RenderCutoffProvider = this.props.RenderCutoffProvider; // needed for type checking
 
+    get Document() {
+        return this._props.Document;
+    }
     @computed get WrapperKeys() {
         return Object.keys(this).filter(key => key.startsWith('w_')).map(key => key.replace('w_', ''))
                   .map(key => ({upper:key, lower:key[0].toLowerCase() + key.substring(1)})); // prettier-ignore
@@ -227,7 +231,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentView extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeF
         });
     }
 
-    @action public float = () => {
+    float = () => {
         const topDoc = this.Document;
         const containerDocView = this._props.containerViewPath?.().lastElement();
         const screenXf = containerDocView?.screenToContentsTransform();
@@ -253,8 +257,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentView extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeF
 
     nudge = (x: number, y: number) => {
         const [locX, locY] = this._props.ScreenToLocalTransform().transformDirection(x, y);
-        this._props.Document.x = this._props.w_X() + locX;
-        this._props.Document.y = this._props.w_Y() + locY;
+        this.Document.x = this._props.w_X() + locX;
+        this.Document.y = this._props.w_Y() + locY;
     };
     screenToLocalTransform = () =>
         this._props
@@ -288,7 +292,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentView extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeF
                     zIndex: this._props.w_ZIndex?.(),
                     display: this._props.w_Width?.() ? undefined : 'none',
                 }}>
-                {this._props.RenderCutoffProvider(this._props.Document) ? (
+                {this._props.RenderCutoffProvider(this.Document) ? (
                     <div style={{ position: 'absolute', width: this._props.PanelWidth(), height: this._props.PanelHeight(), background: 'lightGreen' }} />
                 ) : (
                     <DocumentView {...passOnProps} CollectionFreeFormDocumentView={this.returnThis} styleProvider={this.styleProvider} ScreenToLocalTransform={this.screenToLocalTransform} isGroupActive={this.isGroupActive} />
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
index e707bb836..500eb52ac 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { undoBatch } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import './ComparisonBox.scss';
-import { DocumentView } from './DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, returnEmptyDocViewList } from './DocumentView';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
 
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ export class ComparisonBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
         if (property === StyleProp.PointerEvents) return 'none';
         return this._props.styleProvider?.(doc, props, property);
     };
+    @computed get childContainerViewPath() {
+        return this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
+    }
     moveDoc1 = (doc: Doc | Doc[], targetCol: Doc | undefined, addDoc: any) => (doc instanceof Doc ? [doc] : doc).reduce((res, doc: Doc) => res && this.moveDoc(doc, addDoc, this.fieldKey + '_1'), true);
     moveDoc2 = (doc: Doc | Doc[], targetCol: Doc | undefined, addDoc: any) => (doc instanceof Doc ? [doc] : doc).reduce((res, doc: Doc) => res && this.moveDoc(doc, addDoc, this.fieldKey + '_2'), true);
     remDoc1 = (doc: Doc | Doc[]) => (doc instanceof Doc ? [doc] : doc).reduce((res, doc) => res && this.remDoc(doc, this.fieldKey + '_1'), true);
@@ -178,7 +181,7 @@ export class ComparisonBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
                         {...this._props}
                         Document={targetDoc}
                         TemplateDataDocument={undefined}
-                        containerViewPath={this.docViewPath}
+                        containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
                         moveDocument={which.endsWith('1') ? this.moveDoc1 : this.moveDoc2}
                         removeDocument={which.endsWith('1') ? this.remDoc1 : this.remDoc2}
                         NativeWidth={returnZero}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
index 0d76959af..55859b92b 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
@@ -117,8 +117,6 @@ export class HTMLtag extends React.Component<HTMLtagProps> {
 @observer
 export class DocumentContentsView extends ObservableReactComponent<
     FieldViewProps & {
-        layout_fieldKey: string;
-        LayoutTemplateString?: string;
         onClick?: () => ScriptField;
         LayoutTemplate?: () => Opt<Doc>;
     }
@@ -132,8 +130,8 @@ export class DocumentContentsView extends ObservableReactComponent<
         TraceMobx();
         if (this._props.LayoutTemplateString) return this._props.LayoutTemplateString;
         if (!this.layoutDoc) return '<p>awaiting layout</p>';
-        if (this._props.layout_fieldKey === 'layout_keyValue') return StrCast(this._props.Document.layout_keyValue, KeyValueBox.LayoutString());
-        const layout = Cast(this.layoutDoc[this.layoutDoc === this._props.Document && this._props.layout_fieldKey ? this._props.layout_fieldKey : StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_fieldKey, 'layout')], 'string');
+        if (this._props.fieldKey === 'layout_keyValue') return StrCast(this._props.Document.layout_keyValue, KeyValueBox.LayoutString());
+        const layout = Cast(this.layoutDoc[this.layoutDoc === this._props.Document && this._props.fieldKey ? this._props.fieldKey : StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_fieldKey, 'layout')], 'string');
         if (layout === undefined) return this._props.Document.data ? "<FieldView {...props} fieldKey='data' />" : KeyValueBox.LayoutString();
         if (typeof layout === 'string') return layout;
         return '<p>Loading layout</p>';
@@ -141,12 +139,12 @@ export class DocumentContentsView extends ObservableReactComponent<
 
     get layoutDoc() {
         // bcz: replaced this with below : is it correct?  change was made to accommodate passing fieldKey's from a layout script
-        // const template: Doc = this._props.LayoutTemplate?.() || Doc.Layout(this._props.Document, this._props.layout_fieldKey ? Cast(this._props.Document[this._props.layout_fieldKey], Doc, null) : undefined);
+        // const template: Doc = this._props.LayoutTemplate?.() || Doc.Layout(this._props.Document, this._props.fieldKey ? Cast(this._props.Document[this._props.fieldKey], Doc, null) : undefined);
         const template: Doc =
             this._props.LayoutTemplate?.() ||
             (this._props.LayoutTemplateString && this._props.Document) ||
-            (this._props.layout_fieldKey && StrCast(this._props.Document[this._props.layout_fieldKey]) && this._props.Document) ||
-            Doc.Layout(this._props.Document, this._props.layout_fieldKey ? Cast(this._props.Document[this._props.layout_fieldKey], Doc, null) : undefined);
+            (this._props.fieldKey && StrCast(this._props.Document[this._props.fieldKey]) && this._props.Document) ||
+            Doc.Layout(this._props.Document, this._props.fieldKey ? Cast(this._props.Document[this._props.fieldKey], Doc, null) : undefined);
         return Doc.expandTemplateLayout(template, this._props.Document);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
index 4e13b0ccb..444c300f3 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ export enum OpenWhere {
     addRightKeyvalue = 'add:right:keyValue',
 }
 
+export function returnEmptyDocViewList() {
+    return [] as DocumentView[];
+}
 export interface DocFocusOptions {
     willPan?: boolean; // determines whether to pan to target document
     willZoomCentered?: boolean; // determines whether to zoom in on target document.  if zoomScale is 0, this just centers the document
@@ -148,6 +151,7 @@ export interface DocComponentView {
  * */
 export interface DocumentViewSharedProps {
     Document: Doc;
+    LayoutTemplateString?: string;
     TemplateDataDocument?: Doc;
     renderDepth: number;
     scriptContext?: any; // can be assigned anything and will be passed as 'scriptContext' to any OnClick script that executes on this document
@@ -161,6 +165,7 @@ export interface DocumentViewSharedProps {
     ignoreAutoHeight?: boolean;
     disableBrushing?: boolean; // should highlighting for this view be disabled when same document in another view is hovered over.
     CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?: () => CollectionFreeFormDocumentView;
+    containerViewPath?: () => DocumentView[];
     fitContentsToBox?: () => boolean; // used by freeformview to fit its contents to its panel. corresponds to _freeform_fitContentsToBox property on a Document
     isGroupActive?: () => string | undefined; // is this document part of a group that is active
     setContentView?: (view: DocComponentView) => any;
@@ -206,7 +211,6 @@ export interface DocumentViewProps extends DocumentViewSharedProps {
     hideLinkButton?: boolean;
     hideCaptions?: boolean;
     contentPointerEvents?: 'none' | 'all' | undefined; // pointer events allowed for content of a document view.  eg. set to "none" in menuSidebar for sharedDocs so that you can select a document, but not interact with its contents
-    LayoutTemplateString?: string;
     dontCenter?: 'x' | 'y' | 'xy';
     childHideDecorationTitle?: boolean;
     childHideResizeHandles?: boolean;
@@ -218,7 +222,6 @@ export interface DocumentViewProps extends DocumentViewSharedProps {
     NativeWidth?: () => number;
     NativeHeight?: () => number;
     LayoutTemplate?: () => Opt<Doc>;
-    containerViewPath?: () => DocumentView[];
     contextMenuItems?: () => { script: ScriptField; filter?: ScriptField; label: string; icon: string }[];
     onClick?: () => ScriptField;
     onDoubleClick?: () => ScriptField;
@@ -235,13 +238,13 @@ export interface DocumentViewProps extends DocumentViewSharedProps {
  * these props correspond to things that the DocumentView creates and thus doesn't need to receive as a prop
  */
 export interface DocumentViewInternalSharedProps {
-    DocumentView: () => DocumentView;
     select: (ctrlPressed: boolean, shiftPress?: boolean) => void;
     isSelected: () => boolean;
+    docViewPath: () => DocumentView[];
     NativeDimScaling?: () => number; // scaling the DocumentView does to transform its contents into its panel & needed by ScreenToLocal
 }
 export interface DocumentViewInternalProps extends DocumentViewProps, DocumentViewInternalSharedProps {
-    docViewPath: () => DocumentView[];
+    docViewPublic: () => DocumentView;
 }
 
 @observer
@@ -276,7 +279,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
     } // this makes mobx trace() statements more descriptive
 
     public get DocumentView() {
-        return this._props.DocumentView;
+        return this._props.docViewPublic;
     }
 
     public get ContentDiv() {
@@ -426,15 +429,6 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         }
     }
 
-    defaultRestoreTargetView = (docView: DocumentView, anchor: Doc, focusSpeed: number, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
-        const targetMatch =
-            Doc.AreProtosEqual(anchor, this.Document) || // anchor is this document, so anchor's properties apply to this document
-            (DocCast(anchor)?.layout_unrendered && Doc.AreProtosEqual(DocCast(anchor.annotationOn), this.Document)) // the anchor is an layout_unrendered annotation on this document, so anchor properties apply to this document
-                ? true
-                : false;
-        return targetMatch && PresBox.restoreTargetDocView(docView, anchor, focusSpeed) ? focusSpeed : undefined;
-    };
-
     // switches text input focus to the title bar of the document (and displays the title bar if it hadn't been)
     setTitleFocus = () => {
         if (!StrCast(this.layoutDoc._layout_showTitle)) this.layoutDoc._layout_showTitle = 'title';
@@ -923,8 +917,8 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                 }}>
                 <DocumentContentsView
                     key={1}
-                    {...this._props}
-                    fieldKey=""
+                    {...this.styleProps}
+                    fieldKey={this.finalLayoutKey}
                     pointerEvents={this.contentPointerEvents}
                     setContentView={this.setContentView}
                     childFilters={this.childFilters}
@@ -935,7 +929,6 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                     rootSelected={this.rootSelected}
                     onClick={this.onClickFunc}
                     setTitleFocus={this.setTitleFocus}
-                    layout_fieldKey={this.finalLayoutKey}
                 />
                 {this.layoutDoc.layout_hideAllLinks ? null : this.allLinkEndpoints}
             </div>
@@ -1699,7 +1692,7 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
                         }}>
                         <DocumentViewInternal
                             {...this._props}
-                            DocumentView={this.selfView}
+                            docViewPublic={this.selfView}
                             docViewPath={this.docViewPath}
                             PanelWidth={this.PanelWidth}
                             PanelHeight={this.PanelHeight}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.scss b/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.scss
index 42e158584..0b195713d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.scss
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.scss
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
     display: inline-block;
     margin: auto;
     text-overflow: ellipsis;
+    > span {
+        max-height: 100%; // make sure top of text is in view, otherwise it would center on middle of large text span
+    }
 }
 
 .labelBox-params {
@@ -29,4 +32,4 @@
     width: 100%;
     background: lightgray;
     border: dimgray solid 1px;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx
index 934bce448..cc7c15a10 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { action, computed, makeObservable, observable } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
-import { Doc, DocListCast } from '../../../fields/Doc';
+import { Doc, DocListCast, Field } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { List } from '../../../fields/List';
 import { listSpec } from '../../../fields/Schema';
 import { BoolCast, Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ export class LabelBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & LabelBoxProp
     }
 
     @computed get Title() {
-        return this.dataDoc.title_custom ? StrCast(this.Document.title) : this._props.label ? this._props.label : typeof this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey] === 'string' ? StrCast(this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey]) : StrCast(this.Document.title);
+        return this.dataDoc.title_custom ? StrCast(this.Document.title) : this._props.label ? this._props.label : Field.toString(this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey] as Field);
     }
 
     protected createDropTarget = (ele: HTMLDivElement) => {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx
index 864c1955b..362a7def1 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx
@@ -33,15 +33,16 @@ export class LinkAnchorBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & ViewBox
     }
 
     @computed get linkSource() {
-        return this.containerViewPath?.().lastElement().Document; // this._props.styleProvider?.(this.dataDoc, this._props, StyleProp.LinkSource);
+        return this.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath?.().lastElement().Document; // this._props.styleProvider?.(this.dataDoc, this._props, StyleProp.LinkSource);
     }
 
     onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
         const linkSource = this.linkSource;
-        linkSource && setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, this.onPointerMove, emptyFunction, (e, doubleTap) => {
-            if (doubleTap) LinkFollower.FollowLink(this.Document, linkSource, false);
-            else this._props.select(false);
-        });
+        linkSource &&
+            setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, this.onPointerMove, emptyFunction, (e, doubleTap) => {
+                if (doubleTap) LinkFollower.FollowLink(this.Document, linkSource, false);
+                else this._props.select(false);
+            });
     };
     onPointerMove = action((e: PointerEvent, down: number[], delta: number[]) => {
         const cdiv = this._ref?.current?.parentElement;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx
index 4221f464d..ba34255dc 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ export class LinkBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     @computed get anchor1() {
         const anchor1 = DocCast(this.dataDoc.link_anchor_1);
         const anchor_1 = anchor1?.layout_unrendered ? DocCast(anchor1.annotationOn) : anchor1;
-        return DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(anchor_1, this.containerViewPath?.().lastElement());
+        return DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(anchor_1, this.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath?.().lastElement());
     }
     @computed get anchor2() {
         const anchor2 = DocCast(this.dataDoc.link_anchor_2);
         const anchor_2 = anchor2?.layout_unrendered ? DocCast(anchor2.annotationOn) : anchor2;
-        return DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(anchor_2, this.containerViewPath?.().lastElement());
+        return DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(anchor_2, this.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath?.().lastElement());
     }
     screenBounds = () => {
         if (this.layoutDoc._layout_isSvg && this.anchor1 && this.anchor2 && this.anchor1.CollectionFreeFormView) {
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ export class LinkBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
                     const a = (this.anchor1 ?? this.anchor2)!;
                     const b = (this.anchor2 ?? this.anchor1)!;
 
-                    const parxf = this.containerViewPath?.().lastElement().ComponentView as CollectionFreeFormView;
+                    const parxf = this.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath?.().lastElement().ComponentView as CollectionFreeFormView;
                     const this_xf = parxf?.screenToFreeformContentsXf ?? Transform.Identity; //this.ScreenToLocalTransform();
                     const a_invXf = a.screenToViewTransform().inverse();
                     const b_invXf = b.screenToViewTransform().inverse();
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
index 71c1b6a4c..7696a45a0 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
@@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
                     }}>
                     <PDFViewer
                         {...this._props}
+                        pdfBox={this}
                         sidebarAddDoc={this.sidebarAddDocument}
                         addDocTab={this.sidebarAddDocTab}
                         layoutDoc={this.layoutDoc}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx
index 61576a498..4ae12505e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { DocServer } from '../../../DocServer';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../../documents/Documents';
 import { Transform } from '../../../util/Transform';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../../ObservableReactComponent';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from '../DocumentView';
+import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../DocumentView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './FormattedTextBox';
 
 var horizPadding = 3; // horizontal padding to container to allow cursor to show up on either side.
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ export class DashDocViewInternal extends ObservableReactComponent<IDashDocViewIn
         ele && (ele.style.backgroundColor = 'orange');
     };
 
+    @computed get childContainerViewPath() {
+        return this._textBox.DocumentView?.().docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
+    }
     componentWillUnmount = () => Object.values(this._disposers).forEach(disposer => disposer?.());
     isContentActive = () => this._props.tbox._props.isContentActive() || this._props.tbox.isAnyChildContentActive?.();
 
@@ -207,7 +210,7 @@ export class DashDocViewInternal extends ObservableReactComponent<IDashDocViewIn
                     isDocumentActive={returnFalse}
                     isContentActive={this.isContentActive}
                     styleProvider={this._textBox._props.styleProvider}
-                    containerViewPath={this._textBox.docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDoclist}
+                    containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
                     ScreenToLocalTransform={this.getDocTransform}
                     addDocTab={this._textBox._props.addDocTab}
                     pinToPres={returnFalse}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.tsx
index 3f2ab0ec5..dc9914637 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.tsx
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ export class DashFieldViewInternal extends ObservableReactComponent<IDashFieldVi
     }
 
     createPivotForField = (e: React.MouseEvent) => {
-        let container = this._props.tbox.containerViewPath?.().lastElement();
+        let container = this._props.tbox.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath?.().lastElement();
         if (container) {
             const embedding = Doc.MakeEmbedding(container.Document);
             embedding._type_collection = CollectionViewType.Time;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
index 8cf01b9de..4bc79176e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ export class PresElementBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
 
     // the presentation view that renders this slide
     @computed get presBoxView() {
-        return this.containerViewPath?.().lastElement()?.ComponentView as PresBox;
+        return this.DocumentView?.().containerViewPath?.().lastElement()?.ComponentView as PresBox;
     }
 
     // the presentation view document that renders this slide
diff --git a/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx b/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
index 89e5944f2..01590749e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
@@ -21,11 +21,12 @@ import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentViewProps } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { LinkInfo } from '../nodes/LinkDocPreview';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
-import { StyleProp, testDocProps } from '../StyleProvider';
+import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { AnchorMenu } from './AnchorMenu';
 import { Annotation } from './Annotation';
 import { GPTPopup } from './GPTPopup/GPTPopup';
 import './PDFViewer.scss';
+import { PDFBox } from '../nodes/PDFBox';
 const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
 
 //pdfjsLib.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = `/assets/pdf.worker.js`;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
 Pdfjs.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = 'https://unpkg.com/pdfjs-dist@4.0.379/build/pdf.worker.mjs';
 
 interface IViewerProps extends FieldViewProps {
+    pdfBox: PDFBox;
     Document: Doc;
     dataDoc: Doc;
     layoutDoc: Doc;
@@ -313,7 +315,7 @@ export class PDFViewer extends ObservableReactComponent<IViewerProps> {
             this._ignoreScroll = false;
             if (this._scrollTimer) clearTimeout(this._scrollTimer); // wait until a scrolling pause, then create an anchor to audio
             this._scrollTimer = setTimeout(() => {
-                DocUtils.MakeLinkToActiveAudio(() => this._props.DocumentView?.().ComponentView?.getAnchor!(true)!, false);
+                DocUtils.MakeLinkToActiveAudio(() => this._props.pdfBox.getAnchor(true)!, false);
                 this._scrollTimer = undefined;
             }, 200);
         }
@@ -419,7 +421,7 @@ export class PDFViewer extends ObservableReactComponent<IViewerProps> {
     @action
     createTextAnnotation = (sel: Selection, selRange: Range) => {
         if (this._mainCont.current) {
-            this._mainCont.current.style.transform = `rotate(${NumCast(this._props.DocumentView!().screenToContentsTransform().RotateDeg)}deg)`;
+            this._mainCont.current.style.transform = `rotate(${NumCast(this._props.pdfBox.ScreenToLocalBoxXf().RotateDeg)}deg)`;
             const boundingRect = this._mainCont.current.getBoundingClientRect();
             const clientRects = selRange.getClientRects();
             for (let i = 0; i < clientRects.length; i++) {
@@ -499,9 +501,8 @@ export class PDFViewer extends ObservableReactComponent<IViewerProps> {
     opaqueFilter = () => [...this._props.childFilters(), Utils.noDragDocsFilter, ...(SnappingManager.CanEmbed && this._props.isContentActive() ? [] : [Utils.OpaqueBackgroundFilter])];
     childStyleProvider = (doc: Doc | undefined, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>, property: string): any => {
         if (doc instanceof Doc && property === StyleProp.PointerEvents) {
-            const docProps = testDocProps(props) ? props : undefined;
             if (this.inlineTextAnnotations.includes(doc) || this._props.isContentActive() === false) return 'none';
-            const isInk = doc.layout_isSvg && !docProps?.LayoutTemplateString;
+            const isInk = doc.layout_isSvg && !props?.LayoutTemplateString;
             return isInk ? 'visiblePainted' : 'all';
         }
         return this._props.styleProvider?.(doc, props, property);
@@ -589,7 +590,7 @@ export class PDFViewer extends ObservableReactComponent<IViewerProps> {
                             isNativeScaled={true}
                             annotationLayerScrollTop={NumCast(this._props.Document._layout_scrollTop)}
                             addDocument={this.addDocumentWrapper}
-                            docView={this._props.DocumentView!}
+                            docView={this._props.pdfBox.DocumentView!}
                             finishMarquee={this.finishMarquee}
                             savedAnnotations={this.savedAnnotations}
                             selectionText={this.selectionText}
diff --git a/src/client/views/topbar/TopBar.tsx b/src/client/views/topbar/TopBar.tsx
index 188b2eba4..5828313c8 100644
--- a/src/client/views/topbar/TopBar.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/topbar/TopBar.tsx
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import { CollectionDockingView } from '../collections/CollectionDockingView';
 import { CollectionLinearView } from '../collections/collectionLinear';
 import { DashboardView } from '../DashboardView';
 import { Colors } from '../global/globalEnums';
-import { DocumentViewInternal } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentViewInternal, returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider } from '../StyleProvider';
 import './TopBar.scss';
 
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ export class TopBar extends React.Component {
             <div className="collectionMenu-contMenuButtons" style={{ height: '100%' }}>
                 <CollectionLinearView
                     Document={selDoc}
+                    docViewPath={returnEmptyDocViewList}
                     fieldKey="data"
                     dropAction="embed"
                     styleProvider={DefaultStyleProvider}
diff --git a/src/fields/Doc.ts b/src/fields/Doc.ts
index d726f7064..9c2350bd0 100644
--- a/src/fields/Doc.ts
+++ b/src/fields/Doc.ts
@@ -1245,6 +1245,11 @@ export namespace Doc {
                   : undefined;
     }
 
+    export function toggleLockedPosition(doc: Doc) {
+        doc._lockedPosition = !doc._lockedPosition;
+        doc._pointerEvents = doc._lockedPosition ? 'none' : undefined;
+    }
+
     export function deiconifyView(doc: Doc) {
         StrCast(doc.layout_fieldKey).split('_')[1] === 'icon' && setNativeView(doc);
     }
-- 
cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2


From af380979349308077e13fc12a2d09255b7f05f28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bobzel <zzzman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:11:42 -0500
Subject: reorganization of DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal and FieldView
 methods and props. fix for selection bug after following a link.  migrating
 to use [DocData] instad of GetProto()

---
 src/client/documents/Documents.ts                  |   15 +-
 src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts                |    2 +-
 src/client/util/DocumentManager.ts                 |   19 +-
 src/client/util/DragManager.ts                     |    7 +-
 src/client/util/DropConverter.ts                   |    9 +-
 src/client/util/HypothesisUtils.ts                 |   18 +-
 src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts                    |    9 +-
 src/client/util/LinkManager.ts                     |   12 +-
 src/client/util/SearchUtil.ts                      |  155 +--
 src/client/util/SettingsManager.tsx                |    5 +-
 src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx                 |   12 +-
 src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx                  |  125 +-
 src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx           |   16 +-
 src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx                  |   14 +-
 src/client/views/LightboxView.tsx                  |    2 +-
 src/client/views/MainView.tsx                      |   29 +-
 src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx              |    9 +-
 src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx                |    5 +-
 src/client/views/ScriptBox.tsx                     |    5 +-
 src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx                  |    9 +-
 src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx                 |   12 +-
 src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx                  |    6 +-
 .../views/collections/CollectionCalendarView.tsx   |    4 +-
 .../views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx |    7 +-
 .../views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx   |    6 +-
 .../views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx    |   18 +-
 src/client/views/collections/CollectionMenu.tsx    |   25 +-
 .../views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx |   20 +-
 .../collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx      |   27 +-
 .../views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx   |   28 +-
 src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx |   33 +-
 .../views/collections/CollectionTimeView.tsx       |    7 +-
 .../views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx       |    2 +-
 src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx    |    7 +-
 src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx        |   10 +-
 src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx          |   19 +-
 .../CollectionFreeFormLinkView.tsx                 |    6 +-
 .../collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx  |   90 +-
 .../collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx |    7 +-
 .../collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx          |    6 +-
 .../CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx                  |    4 +-
 .../CollectionMultirowView.tsx                     |    4 +-
 .../collectionMulticolumn/MulticolumnResizer.tsx   |    6 +-
 .../collectionMulticolumn/MultirowResizer.tsx      |    6 +-
 .../collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx      |   10 +-
 .../collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx  |   10 +-
 .../collectionSchema/SchemaTableCell.tsx           |    5 +-
 src/client/views/linking/LinkMenu.tsx              |    2 +-
 src/client/views/linking/LinkMenuGroup.tsx         |   12 +-
 src/client/views/newlightbox/NewLightboxView.tsx   |    2 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx                |   15 +-
 .../views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx |   10 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx           |   15 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx   |   16 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx    |   29 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/DocumentIcon.tsx            |    2 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx     |   40 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx            | 1214 ++++++++------------
 src/client/views/nodes/EquationBox.tsx             |    4 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx               |  109 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/FontIconBox/FontIconBox.tsx |    2 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/FunctionPlotBox.tsx         |    2 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx                |   25 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/KeyValueBox.tsx             |    2 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/KeyValuePair.tsx            |    4 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx                |   23 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx           |   10 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx                 |    7 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/LinkDescriptionPopup.tsx    |   31 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/LinkDocPreview.tsx          |    6 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx           |   16 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox2.tsx          |   12 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx |    5 +-
 .../views/nodes/MapboxMapBox/MapboxContainer.tsx   |   26 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx                  |   28 +-
 .../views/nodes/RecordingBox/RecordingBox.tsx      |   12 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx           |   13 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/ScriptingBox.tsx            |    8 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx                |   42 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx                  |   20 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/calendarBox/CalendarBox.tsx |   10 +-
 .../views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx      |   12 +-
 .../views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx |   45 +-
 .../views/nodes/importBox/ImportElementBox.tsx     |    6 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx          |   37 +-
 src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx   |    2 +-
 src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx                 |    9 +-
 src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx              |    8 +-
 src/client/views/selectedDoc/SelectedDocView.tsx   |    8 +-
 src/client/views/webcam/DashWebRTCVideo.tsx        |   16 +-
 src/fields/Doc.ts                                  |   52 +-
 91 files changed, 1304 insertions(+), 1527 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx')

diff --git a/src/client/documents/Documents.ts b/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
index 40cffcf45..bcc016391 100644
--- a/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
+++ b/src/client/documents/Documents.ts
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ export class DocumentOptions {
     type_collection?: COLLt = new CTypeInfo('how collection is rendered'); // sub type of a collection
     _type_collection?: COLLt = new CTypeInfo('how collection is rendered'); // sub type of a collection
     title?: STRt = new StrInfo('title of document', true);
+    title_custom?: BOOLt = new BoolInfo('whether title is a default or has been intentionally set');
     caption?: RichTextField;
     author?: string; // STRt = new StrInfo('creator of document'); // bcz: don't change this. Otherwise, the userDoc's field Infos will have a FieldInfo assigned to its author field which will render it unreadable
     author_date?: DATEt = new DateInfo('date the document was created', true);
@@ -1454,17 +1455,17 @@ export namespace DocUtils {
                 TaskCompletionBox.popupY = showPopup[1] - 33;
                 TaskCompletionBox.taskCompleted = true;
 
-                LinkDescriptionPopup.popupX = showPopup[0];
-                LinkDescriptionPopup.popupY = showPopup[1];
-                LinkDescriptionPopup.descriptionPopup = true;
+                LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupX = showPopup[0];
+                LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupY = showPopup[1];
+                LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.display = true;
 
                 const rect = document.body.getBoundingClientRect();
-                if (LinkDescriptionPopup.popupX + 200 > rect.width) {
-                    LinkDescriptionPopup.popupX -= 190;
+                if (LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupX + 200 > rect.width) {
+                    LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupX -= 190;
                     TaskCompletionBox.popupX -= 40;
                 }
-                if (LinkDescriptionPopup.popupY + 100 > rect.height) {
-                    LinkDescriptionPopup.popupY -= 40;
+                if (LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupY + 100 > rect.height) {
+                    LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupY -= 40;
                     TaskCompletionBox.popupY -= 40;
                 }
 
diff --git a/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts b/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
index 0b15e3add..c4af20b9b 100644
--- a/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/CurrentUserUtils.ts
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ export class CurrentUserUtils {
             {key: "Map",        creator: opts => Docs.Create.MapDocument([], opts),         opts: { _width: 800, _height: 600, _layout_fitWidth: true, }},
             {key: "Screengrab", creator: Docs.Create.ScreenshotDocument,                    opts: { _width: 400, _height: 200 }},
             {key: "WebCam",     creator: opts => Docs.Create.WebCamDocument("", opts),      opts: { _width: 400, _height: 200, recording:true, isSystem: true, cloneFieldFilter: new List<string>(["isSystem"]) }},
-            {key: "Button",     creator: Docs.Create.ButtonDocument,                        opts: { _width: 150, _height: 50, _xPadding: 10, _yPadding: 10, waitForDoubleClickToClick: 'never'}, scripts: {onClick: FollowLinkScript()?.script.originalScript ?? ""}},
+            {key: "Button",     creator: Docs.Create.ButtonDocument,                        opts: { _width: 150, _height: 50, _xPadding: 10, _yPadding: 10, title_custom: true,  waitForDoubleClickToClick: 'never'}, scripts: {onClick: FollowLinkScript()?.script.originalScript ?? ""}},
             {key: "Script",     creator: opts => Docs.Create.ScriptingDocument(null, opts), opts: { _width: 200, _height: 250, }},
             {key: "DataViz",    creator: opts => Docs.Create.DataVizDocument("/users/rz/Downloads/addresses.csv", opts),   opts: { _width: 300, _height: 300 }},
             {key: "Header",     creator: headerTemplate,                                    opts: { _width: 300, _height: 70, _headerPointerEvents: "all", _headerHeight: 12, _headerFontSize: 9, _layout_autoHeight: true, treeView_HideUnrendered: true}},
diff --git a/src/client/util/DocumentManager.ts b/src/client/util/DocumentManager.ts
index e81a99e40..f730d17fe 100644
--- a/src/client/util/DocumentManager.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/DocumentManager.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+import { Howl } from 'howler';
 import { action, computed, makeObservable, observable, ObservableSet, observe } from 'mobx';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
-import { AclAdmin, AclEdit, Animation } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { AclAdmin, AclEdit, Animation, DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Id } from '../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { listSpec } from '../../fields/Schema';
 import { Cast, DocCast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../fields/Types';
@@ -10,13 +11,13 @@ import { CollectionViewType } from '../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { CollectionDockingView } from '../views/collections/CollectionDockingView';
 import { TabDocView } from '../views/collections/TabDocView';
 import { LightboxView } from '../views/LightboxView';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod } from '../views/nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod } from '../views/nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions } from '../views/nodes/FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from '../views/nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { LinkAnchorBox } from '../views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox';
 import { PresBox } from '../views/nodes/trails';
 import { ScriptingGlobals } from './ScriptingGlobals';
 import { SelectionManager } from './SelectionManager';
-import { Howl } from 'howler';
 
 export class DocumentManager {
     private static _instance: DocumentManager;
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ export class DocumentManager {
         });
         if (toReturn.length === 0) {
             DocumentManager.Instance.DocumentViews.forEach(view => {
-                if (Doc.GetProto(view.Document)?.[Id] === id) {
+                if (view.Document[DocData]?.[Id] === id) {
                     toReturn.push(view);
                 }
             });
@@ -236,7 +237,7 @@ export class DocumentManager {
     // shows a documentView by:
     // traverses down through the viewPath of contexts to the view:
     //           focusing on each context
-    public showDocumentView = async (targetDocView: DocumentView, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    public showDocumentView = async (targetDocView: DocumentView, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         const docViewPath = [...(targetDocView.containerViewPath?.() ?? []), targetDocView];
         let rootContextView = docViewPath.shift();
         await (rootContextView && this.focusViewsInPath(rootContextView, options, async () => ({ childDocView: docViewPath.shift(), viewSpec: undefined, focused: false })));
@@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ export class DocumentManager {
     //           and finally restoring the targetDoc to the viewSpec specified by the last document which may either be the targetDoc, or a viewSpec that describes the targetDoc configuration
     public showDocument = async (
         targetDoc: Doc, // document to display
-        options: DocFocusOptions, // options for how to navigate to target
+        options: FocusViewOptions, // options for how to navigate to target
         finished?: (changed: boolean) => void // func called after focusing on target with flag indicating whether anything needed to be done.
     ) => {
         Doc.RemoveDocFromList(Doc.MyRecentlyClosed, undefined, targetDoc);
@@ -293,7 +294,7 @@ export class DocumentManager {
 
     focusViewsInPath = async (
         docView: DocumentView, //
-        options: DocFocusOptions,
+        options: FocusViewOptions,
         iterator: (docView: DocumentView) => Promise<{ viewSpec: Opt<Doc>; childDocView: Opt<DocumentView>; focused: boolean }>
     ) => {
         let contextView: DocumentView | undefined; // view containing context that contains target
@@ -313,7 +314,7 @@ export class DocumentManager {
     };
 
     @action
-    restoreDocView(viewSpec: Opt<Doc>, docView: DocumentView, options: DocFocusOptions, contextView: Opt<DocumentView>, targetDoc: Doc) {
+    restoreDocView(viewSpec: Opt<Doc>, docView: DocumentView, options: FocusViewOptions, contextView: Opt<DocumentView>, targetDoc: Doc) {
         if (viewSpec && docView) {
             //if (docView.ComponentView instanceof FormattedTextBox)
             //viewSpec !== docView.Document &&
@@ -337,7 +338,7 @@ export class DocumentManager {
         }
     }
 }
-export function DocFocusOrOpen(doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions = { willZoomCentered: true, zoomScale: 0, openLocation: OpenWhere.toggleRight }, containingDoc?: Doc) {
+export function DocFocusOrOpen(doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions = { willZoomCentered: true, zoomScale: 0, openLocation: OpenWhere.toggleRight }, containingDoc?: Doc) {
     const func = () => {
         const cv = DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(containingDoc);
         const dv = DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(doc, cv);
diff --git a/src/client/util/DragManager.ts b/src/client/util/DragManager.ts
index 9ede18ed5..70c40c54e 100644
--- a/src/client/util/DragManager.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/DragManager.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import { ScriptingGlobals } from './ScriptingGlobals';
 import { SelectionManager } from './SelectionManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from './SnappingManager';
 import { UndoManager } from './UndoManager';
+import { DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 const { default : { contextMenuZindex } } = require('../views/global/globalCssVariables.module.scss'); // prettier-ignore
 
 export type dropActionType = 'embed' | 'copy' | 'move' | 'add' | 'same' | 'inSame' | 'proto' | 'none' | undefined; // undefined = move, "same" = move but don't call dropPropertiesToRemove
@@ -222,7 +223,7 @@ export namespace DragManager {
                                   : docDragData.dropAction === 'add'
                                     ? d
                                     : docDragData.dropAction === 'proto'
-                                      ? Doc.GetProto(d)
+                                      ? d[DocData]
                                       : docDragData.dropAction === 'copy'
                                         ? (await Doc.MakeClone(d)).clone
                                         : d
@@ -250,9 +251,9 @@ export namespace DragManager {
     export function StartButtonDrag(eles: HTMLElement[], script: string, title: string, vars: { [name: string]: Field }, params: string[], initialize: (button: Doc) => void, downX: number, downY: number, options?: DragOptions) {
         const finishDrag = (e: DragCompleteEvent) => {
             const bd = Docs.Create.ButtonDocument({ toolTip: title, z: 1, _width: 150, _height: 50, title, onClick: ScriptField.MakeScript(script) });
-            params.map(p => Object.keys(vars).indexOf(p) !== -1 && (Doc.GetProto(bd)[p] = new PrefetchProxy(vars[p] as Doc))); // copy all "captured" arguments into document parameterfields
+            params.map(p => Object.keys(vars).indexOf(p) !== -1 && (bd[DocData][p] = new PrefetchProxy(vars[p] as Doc))); // copy all "captured" arguments into document parameterfields
             initialize?.(bd);
-            Doc.GetProto(bd)['onClick-paramFieldKeys'] = new List<string>(params);
+            bd[DocData]['onClick-paramFieldKeys'] = new List<string>(params);
             e.docDragData && (e.docDragData.droppedDocuments = [bd]);
             return e;
         };
diff --git a/src/client/util/DropConverter.ts b/src/client/util/DropConverter.ts
index 2c371f28e..f62ec8f83 100644
--- a/src/client/util/DropConverter.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/DropConverter.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
+import { DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { ObjectField } from '../../fields/ObjectField';
 import { RichTextField } from '../../fields/RichTextField';
 import { listSpec } from '../../fields/Schema';
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ import { DragManager } from './DragManager';
 import { ScriptingGlobals } from './ScriptingGlobals';
 
 export function MakeTemplate(doc: Doc, first: boolean = true, rename: Opt<string> = undefined, templateField: string = '') {
-    if (templateField) Doc.GetProto(doc).title = templateField; /// the title determines which field is being templated
+    if (templateField) doc[DocData].title = templateField; /// the title determines which field is being templated
     doc.isTemplateDoc = makeTemplate(doc, first, rename);
     return doc;
 }
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ function makeTemplate(doc: Doc, first: boolean = true, rename: Opt<string> = und
     let any = false;
     docs.forEach(d => {
         if (!StrCast(d.title).startsWith('-')) {
-            any = Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(d, Doc.GetProto(layoutDoc)) || any;
+            any = Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(d, layoutDoc[DocData]) || any;
         } else if (d.type === DocumentType.COL || d.data instanceof RichTextField) {
             any = makeTemplate(d, false) || any;
         }
@@ -41,12 +42,12 @@ function makeTemplate(doc: Doc, first: boolean = true, rename: Opt<string> = und
     if (first) {
         if (!docs.length) {
             // bcz: feels hacky : if the root level document has items, it's not a field template
-            any = Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(doc, Doc.GetProto(layoutDoc)) || any;
+            any = Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(doc, layoutDoc[DocData]) || any;
         }
     }
     if (layoutDoc[fieldKey] instanceof RichTextField || layoutDoc[fieldKey] instanceof ImageField) {
         if (!StrCast(layoutDoc.title).startsWith('-')) {
-            any = Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(layoutDoc, Doc.GetProto(layoutDoc));
+            any = Doc.MakeMetadataFieldTemplate(layoutDoc, layoutDoc[DocData]);
         }
     }
     rename && (doc.title = rename);
diff --git a/src/client/util/HypothesisUtils.ts b/src/client/util/HypothesisUtils.ts
index f46c2d431..c5f307f44 100644
--- a/src/client/util/HypothesisUtils.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/HypothesisUtils.ts
@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ export namespace Hypothesis {
         if (currentDoc && Cast(currentDoc.data, WebField)?.url.href === uri) return currentDoc; // always check first whether the currently selected doc is the annotation's source, only use Search otherwise
 
         const results: Doc[] = [];
-        await SearchUtil.Search('web', true).then(
-            action(async (res: SearchUtil.DocSearchResult) => {
-                const docs = res.docs;
-                const filteredDocs = docs.filter(doc => doc.author === Doc.CurrentUserEmail && doc.type === DocumentType.WEB && doc.data);
-                filteredDocs.forEach(doc => {
-                    uri === Cast(doc.data, WebField)?.url.href && results.push(doc); // TODO check visited sites history?
-                });
-            })
-        );
+        // await SearchUtil.Search('web', true).then(
+        //     action(async (res: SearchUtil.DocSearchResult) => {
+        //         const docs = res.docs;
+        //         const filteredDocs = docs.filter(doc => doc.author === Doc.CurrentUserEmail && doc.type === DocumentType.WEB && doc.data);
+        //         filteredDocs.forEach(doc => {
+        //             uri === Cast(doc.data, WebField)?.url.href && results.push(doc); // TODO check visited sites history?
+        //         });
+        //     })
+        // );
 
         const onScreenResults = results.filter(doc => DocumentManager.Instance.getFirstDocumentView(doc));
         return onScreenResults.length ? onScreenResults[0] : results.length ? results[0] : undefined; // prioritize results that are currently on the screen
diff --git a/src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts b/src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts
index 2df4d1ca8..20261859c 100644
--- a/src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/LinkFollower.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-import { action, observable, runInAction } from 'mobx';
+import { action, runInAction } from 'mobx';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Field, FieldResult, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
 import { ScriptField } from '../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../fields/Types';
 import { DocumentType } from '../documents/DocumentTypes';
-import { DocFocusOptions, OpenWhere } from '../views/nodes/DocumentView';
+import { OpenWhere } from '../views/nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions } from '../views/nodes/FieldView';
 import { PresBox } from '../views/nodes/trails';
 import { DocumentManager } from './DocumentManager';
 import { LinkManager } from './LinkManager';
 import { ScriptingGlobals } from './ScriptingGlobals';
 import { SelectionManager } from './SelectionManager';
-import { UndoManager } from './UndoManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from './SnappingManager';
+import { UndoManager } from './UndoManager';
 /*
  * link doc:
  * - link_anchor_1: doc
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ export class LinkFollower {
             if (target) {
                 const doFollow = (canToggle?: boolean) => {
                     const toggleTarget = canToggle && BoolCast(sourceDoc.followLinkToggle);
-                    const options: DocFocusOptions = {
+                    const options: FocusViewOptions = {
                         playAudio: BoolCast(srcAnchor.followLinkAudio),
                         playMedia: BoolCast(srcAnchor.followLinkVideo),
                         toggleTarget,
diff --git a/src/client/util/LinkManager.ts b/src/client/util/LinkManager.ts
index ccb3c6b98..353f28a92 100644
--- a/src/client/util/LinkManager.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/LinkManager.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { action, makeObservable, observable, observe, runInAction } from 'mobx';
 import { computedFn } from 'mobx-utils';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, DocListCastAsync, Field, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
-import { DirectLinks } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { DirectLinks, DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { FieldLoader } from '../../fields/FieldLoader';
 import { List } from '../../fields/List';
 import { ProxyField } from '../../fields/Proxy';
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ export class LinkManager {
                                 link &&
                                     action(lAnchProtoProtos => {
                                         Doc.AddDocToList(Doc.UserDoc(), 'links', link);
-                                        lAnchs[0] && Doc.GetProto(lAnchs[0])[DirectLinks].add(link);
-                                        lAnchs[1] && Doc.GetProto(lAnchs[1])[DirectLinks].add(link);
+                                        lAnchs[0] && lAnchs[0][DocData][DirectLinks].add(link);
+                                        lAnchs[1] && lAnchs[1][DocData][DirectLinks].add(link);
                                     })
                             )
                         )
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ export class LinkManager {
                         Promise.all(lAnchs.map(lAnch => PromiseValue(lAnch?.proto as Doc))).then((lAnchProtos: Opt<Doc>[]) =>
                             Promise.all(lAnchProtos.map(lAnchProto => PromiseValue(lAnchProto?.proto as Doc))).then(
                                 action(lAnchProtoProtos => {
-                                    link && lAnchs[0] && Doc.GetProto(lAnchs[0])[DirectLinks].delete(link);
-                                    link && lAnchs[1] && Doc.GetProto(lAnchs[1])[DirectLinks].delete(link);
+                                    link && lAnchs[0] && lAnchs[0][DocData][DirectLinks].delete(link);
+                                    link && lAnchs[1] && lAnchs[1][DocData][DirectLinks].delete(link);
                                 })
                             )
                         )
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ export class LinkManager {
         return this.relatedLinker(anchor);
     } // finds all links that contain the given anchor
     public getAllDirectLinks(anchor?: Doc): Doc[] {
-        return anchor ? Array.from(Doc.GetProto(anchor)[DirectLinks]) : [];
+        return anchor ? Array.from(anchor[DirectLinks]) : [];
     } // finds all links that contain the given anchor
 
     relatedLinker = computedFn(function relatedLinker(this: any, anchor: Doc): Doc[] {
diff --git a/src/client/util/SearchUtil.ts b/src/client/util/SearchUtil.ts
index e51770c25..2cc64f415 100644
--- a/src/client/util/SearchUtil.ts
+++ b/src/client/util/SearchUtil.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-import * as rp from 'request-promise';
-import { DocServer } from '../DocServer';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Field, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
 import { Id } from '../../fields/FieldSymbols';
-import { Utils } from '../../Utils';
-import { DocumentType } from '../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { StrCast } from '../../fields/Types';
+import { DocumentType } from '../documents/DocumentTypes';
 
 export namespace SearchUtil {
     export type HighlightingResult = { [id: string]: { [key: string]: string[] } };
@@ -110,154 +107,4 @@ export namespace SearchUtil {
             depth++;
         }
     }
-    export interface IdSearchResult {
-        ids: string[];
-        lines: string[][];
-        numFound: number;
-        highlighting: HighlightingResult | undefined;
-    }
-
-    export interface DocSearchResult {
-        docs: Doc[];
-        lines: string[][];
-        numFound: number;
-        highlighting: HighlightingResult | undefined;
-    }
-
-    export interface SearchParams {
-        hl?: string;
-        'hl.fl'?: string;
-        start?: number;
-        rows?: number;
-        fq?: string;
-        sort?: string;
-        allowEmbeddings?: boolean;
-        onlyEmbeddings?: boolean;
-        facet?: string;
-        'facet.field'?: string;
-    }
-    export function Search(query: string, returnDocs: true, options?: SearchParams): Promise<DocSearchResult>;
-    export function Search(query: string, returnDocs: false, options?: SearchParams): Promise<IdSearchResult>;
-    export async function Search(query: string, returnDocs: boolean, options: SearchParams = {}) {
-        query = query || '*'; //If we just have a filter query, search for * as the query
-        const rpquery = Utils.prepend('/dashsearch');
-        let replacedQuery = query.replace(/type_t:([^ )])/g, (substring, arg) => `{!join from=id to=proto_i}*:* AND ${arg}`);
-        if (options.onlyEmbeddings) {
-            const header = query.match(/_[atnb]?:/) ? replacedQuery : 'DEFAULT:' + replacedQuery;
-            replacedQuery = `{!join from=id to=proto_i}* AND ${header}`;
-        }
-        //console.log("Q: " + replacedQuery + " fq: " + options.fq);
-        const gotten = await rp.get(rpquery, { qs: { ...options, q: replacedQuery } });
-        const result: IdSearchResult = gotten.startsWith('<') ? { ids: [], docs: [], numFound: 0, lines: [] } : JSON.parse(gotten);
-        if (!returnDocs) {
-            return result;
-        }
-
-        const { ids, highlighting } = result;
-
-        const txtresult =
-            query !== '*' &&
-            JSON.parse(
-                await rp.get(Utils.prepend('/textsearch'), {
-                    qs: { ...options, q: query.replace(/^[ \+\?\*\|]*/, '') }, // a leading '+' leads to a server crash since findInFiles doesn't handle regex failures
-                })
-            );
-
-        const fileids = txtresult ? txtresult.ids : [];
-        const newIds: string[] = [];
-        const newLines: string[][] = [];
-        // bcz: we stopped storing fileUpload id's, so this won't find anything
-        // if (fileids) {
-        //     await Promise.all(
-        //         fileids.map(async (tr: string, i: number) => {
-        //             const docQuery = 'fileUpload_t:' + tr.substr(0, 7); //If we just have a filter query, search for * as the query
-        //             const docResult = JSON.parse(await rp.get(Utils.prepend('/dashsearch'), { qs: { ...options, q: docQuery } }));
-        //             newIds.push(...docResult.ids);
-        //             newLines.push(...docResult.ids.map((dr: any) => txtresult.lines[i]));
-        //         })
-        //     );
-        // }
-
-        const theDocs: Doc[] = [];
-        const theLines: string[][] = [];
-        const textDocMap = await DocServer.GetRefFields(newIds);
-        const textDocs = newIds.map((id: string) => textDocMap[id]).map(doc => doc as Doc);
-        for (let i = 0; i < textDocs.length; i++) {
-            const testDoc = textDocs[i];
-            if (testDoc instanceof Doc && testDoc.type !== DocumentType.KVP && theDocs.findIndex(d => Doc.AreProtosEqual(d, testDoc)) === -1) {
-                theDocs.push(Doc.GetProto(testDoc));
-                theLines.push(newLines[i].map(line => line.replace(query, query.toUpperCase())));
-            }
-        }
-
-        const docMap = await DocServer.GetRefFields(ids);
-        const docs = ids.map((id: string) => docMap[id]).map(doc => doc as Doc);
-        for (let i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
-            const testDoc = docs[i];
-            if (testDoc instanceof Doc && testDoc.type !== DocumentType.KVP && (options.allowEmbeddings || testDoc.proto === undefined || theDocs.findIndex(d => Doc.AreProtosEqual(d, testDoc)) === -1)) {
-                theDocs.push(testDoc);
-                theLines.push([]);
-            } else {
-                result.numFound--;
-            }
-        }
-
-        return { docs: theDocs, numFound: Math.max(0, result.numFound), highlighting, lines: theLines };
-    }
-
-    export async function GetEmbeddingsOfDocument(doc: Doc): Promise<Doc[]>;
-    export async function GetEmbeddingsOfDocument(doc: Doc, returnDocs: false): Promise<string[]>;
-    export async function GetEmbeddingsOfDocument(doc: Doc, returnDocs = true): Promise<Doc[] | string[]> {
-        const proto = Doc.GetProto(doc);
-        const protoId = proto[Id];
-        if (returnDocs) {
-            return (await Search('', returnDocs, { fq: `proto_i:"${protoId}"`, allowEmbeddings: true })).docs;
-        } else {
-            return (await Search('', returnDocs, { fq: `proto_i:"${protoId}"`, allowEmbeddings: true })).ids;
-        }
-        // return Search(`{!join from=id to=proto_i}id:${protoId}`, true);
-    }
-
-    export async function GetViewsOfDocument(doc: Doc): Promise<Doc[]> {
-        const results = await Search('', true, { fq: `proto_i:"${doc[Id]}"` });
-        return results.docs;
-    }
-
-    export async function GetContextsOfDocument(doc: Doc): Promise<{ contexts: Doc[]; embeddingContexts: Doc[] }> {
-        const docContexts = (await Search('', true, { fq: `data_l:"${doc[Id]}"` })).docs;
-        const embeddings = await GetEmbeddingsOfDocument(doc, false);
-        const embeddingContexts = await Promise.all(embeddings.map(doc => Search('', true, { fq: `data_l:"${doc}"` })));
-        const contexts = { contexts: docContexts, embeddingContexts: [] as Doc[] };
-        embeddingContexts.forEach(result => contexts.embeddingContexts.push(...result.docs));
-        return contexts;
-    }
-
-    export async function GetContextIdsOfDocument(doc: Doc): Promise<{ contexts: string[]; embeddingContexts: string[] }> {
-        const docContexts = (await Search('', false, { fq: `data_l:"${doc[Id]}"` })).ids;
-        const embeddings = await GetEmbeddingsOfDocument(doc, false);
-        const embeddingContexts = await Promise.all(embeddings.map(doc => Search('', false, { fq: `data_l:"${doc}"` })));
-        const contexts = { contexts: docContexts, embeddingContexts: [] as string[] };
-        embeddingContexts.forEach(result => contexts.embeddingContexts.push(...result.ids));
-        return contexts;
-    }
-
-    export async function GetAllDocs() {
-        const query = '*';
-        const response = await rp.get(Utils.prepend('/dashsearch'), {
-            qs: { start: 0, rows: 10000, q: query },
-        });
-        const result: IdSearchResult = JSON.parse(response);
-        const { ids, numFound, highlighting } = result;
-        const docMap = await DocServer.GetRefFields(ids);
-        const docs: Doc[] = [];
-        for (const id of ids) {
-            const field = docMap[id];
-            if (field instanceof Doc) {
-                docs.push(field);
-            }
-        }
-        return docs;
-        // const docs = ids.map((id: string) => docMap[id]).filter((doc: any) => doc instanceof Doc);
-        // return docs as Doc[];
-    }
 }
diff --git a/src/client/util/SettingsManager.tsx b/src/client/util/SettingsManager.tsx
index 0233c4051..5bf9e5b00 100644
--- a/src/client/util/SettingsManager.tsx
+++ b/src/client/util/SettingsManager.tsx
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { BsGoogle } from 'react-icons/bs';
 import { FaFillDrip, FaPalette } from 'react-icons/fa';
+import { Utils, addStyleSheet, addStyleSheetRule } from '../../Utils';
 import { Doc, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
 import { DashVersion } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { BoolCast, Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../fields/Types';
-import { addStyleSheet, addStyleSheetRule, Utils } from '../../Utils';
-import { GoogleAuthenticationManager } from '../apis/GoogleAuthenticationManager';
 import { DocServer } from '../DocServer';
 import { Networking } from '../Network';
+import { GoogleAuthenticationManager } from '../apis/GoogleAuthenticationManager';
 import { GestureOverlay } from '../views/GestureOverlay';
 import { MainViewModal } from '../views/MainViewModal';
 import { FontIconBox } from '../views/nodes/FontIconBox/FontIconBox';
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ export class SettingsManager extends React.Component<{}> {
     @observable activeTab = 'Accounts';
 
     @observable public propertiesWidth: number = 0;
-    @observable public headerBarHeight: number = 0;
 
     constructor(props: {}) {
         super(props);
diff --git a/src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx b/src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx
index 523721b84..472d419fc 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DashboardView.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { FaPlus } from 'react-icons/fa';
 import { Doc, DocListCast } from '../../fields/Doc';
-import { AclPrivate, DocAcl } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { AclPrivate, DocAcl, DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Id } from '../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { List } from '../../fields/List';
 import { PrefetchProxy } from '../../fields/Proxy';
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export class DashboardView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
 
     getDashboards = (whichGroup: DashboardGroup) => {
         if (whichGroup === DashboardGroup.MyDashboards) {
-            return DocListCast(Doc.MyDashboards.data).filter(dashboard => Doc.GetProto(dashboard).author === Doc.CurrentUserEmail);
+            return DocListCast(Doc.MyDashboards.data).filter(dashboard => dashboard[DocData].author === Doc.CurrentUserEmail);
         }
         return DocListCast(Doc.MySharedDocs.data_dashboards).filter(doc => doc.dockingConfig);
     };
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ export class DashboardView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
                                               }
                                           />
                                           <div className="info">
-                                              <EditableText type={Type.PRIM} color={color} val={StrCast(dashboard.title)} setVal={val => (Doc.GetProto(dashboard).title = val)} />
+                                              <EditableText type={Type.PRIM} color={color} val={StrCast(dashboard.title)} setVal={val => (dashboard[DocData].title = val)} />
                                               {this.selectedDashboardGroup === DashboardGroup.SharedDashboards && this.isUnviewedSharedDashboard(dashboard) ? <div>unviewed</div> : <div></div>}
                                               <div
                                                   className="more"
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ export class DashboardView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
                 },
             ],
         };
-        if (dashboard.dockingConfig && dashboard.dockingConfig !== Doc.GetProto(dashboard).dockingConfig) dashboard.dockingConfig = JSON.stringify(reset);
+        if (dashboard.dockingConfig && dashboard.dockingConfig !== dashboard[DocData].dockingConfig) dashboard.dockingConfig = JSON.stringify(reset);
         else Doc.SetInPlace(dashboard, 'dockingConfig', JSON.stringify(reset), true);
         return reset;
     };
@@ -391,9 +391,9 @@ export class DashboardView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
         Doc.ActivePresentation = undefined;
     };
 
-    public static SetupDashboardCalendars(dashboardDoc: Doc){
+    public static SetupDashboardCalendars(dashboardDoc: Doc) {
         // this section is creating the button document itself  ===  myTrails = new Button
-        
+
         //  create a a list of calendars (as a CalendarCollectionDocument) and store it on the new dashboard
         const reqdOpts: DocumentOptions = {
             title: 'My Calendars',
diff --git a/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx b/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
index 6aba4a042..0e5a4f013 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
@@ -2,22 +2,62 @@ import { action, computed, makeObservable, observable } from 'mobx';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { returnFalse } from '../../Utils';
 import { DateField } from '../../fields/DateField';
-import { Doc, DocListCast, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
+import { Doc, DocListCast, Field, Opt } from '../../fields/Doc';
 import { AclAdmin, AclAugment, AclEdit, AclPrivate, AclReadonly, DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { List } from '../../fields/List';
 import { GetEffectiveAcl, inheritParentAcls } from '../../fields/util';
 import { DocumentType } from '../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { DocUtils } from '../documents/Documents';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../util/DocumentManager';
-import { Transform } from '../util/Transform';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from './ObservableReactComponent';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from './collections/collectionFreeForm';
-import { DocumentView } from './nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FieldViewProps, FocusViewOptions } from './nodes/FieldView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from './nodes/DocumentView';
+import { PinProps } from './nodes/trails';
+import { RefField } from '../../fields/RefField';
 
 /**
- * DocComponent returns a generic React base class used by Doc views (not the 'Box' views that render the contents of Doc views)
- *    (e.g.,CollectionFreeFormDocumentView, DocumentViewInternal)
- *
+ * Shared interface among all viewBox'es (ie, react classes that render the contents of a Doc)
+ * Many of these methods only make sense for specific viewBox'es, but they should be written to
+ * be as general as possible
+ */
+export interface ViewBoxInterface {
+    fieldKey?: string;
+    annotationKey?: string;
+    updateIcon?: () => void; // updates the icon representation of the document
+    getAnchor?: (addAsAnnotation: boolean, pinData?: PinProps) => Doc; // returns an Anchor Doc that represents the current state of the doc's componentview (e.g., the current playhead location of a an audio/video box)
+    restoreView?: (viewSpec: Doc) => boolean;
+    scrollPreview?: (docView: DocumentView, doc: Doc, focusSpeed: number, options: FocusViewOptions) => Opt<number>; // returns the duration of the focus
+    brushView?: (view: { width: number; height: number; panX: number; panY: number }, transTime: number, holdTime: number) => void; // highlight a region of a view (used by freeforms)
+    getView?: (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => Promise<Opt<DocumentView>>; // returns a nested DocumentView for the specified doc or undefined
+    addDocTab?: (doc: Doc, where: OpenWhere) => boolean; // determines how to add a document - used in following links to open the target ina local lightbox
+    addDocument?: (doc: Doc | Doc[], annotationKey?: string) => boolean; // add a document (used only by collections)
+    select?: (ctrlKey: boolean, shiftKey: boolean) => void;
+    focus?: (textAnchor: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => Opt<number>;
+    isAnyChildContentActive?: () => boolean; // is any child content of the document active
+    onClickScriptDisable?: () => 'never' | 'always'; // disable click scripts : never, always, or undefined = only when selected
+    getKeyFrameEditing?: () => boolean; // whether the document is in keyframe editing mode (if it is, then all hidden documents that are not active at the keyframe time will still be shown)
+    setKeyFrameEditing?: (set: boolean) => void; // whether the document is in keyframe editing mode (if it is, then all hidden documents that are not active at the keyframe time will still be shown)
+    playFrom?: (time: number, endTime?: number) => void;
+    Pause?: () => void; // pause a media document (eg, audio/video)
+    IsPlaying?: () => boolean; // is a media document playing
+    TogglePause?: (keep?: boolean) => void; // toggle media document playing state
+    setFocus?: () => void; // sets input focus to the componentView
+    setData?: (data: Field | Promise<RefField | undefined>) => boolean;
+    componentUI?: (boundsLeft: number, boundsTop: number) => JSX.Element | null;
+    dragStarting?: (snapToDraggedDoc: boolean, showGroupDragTarget: boolean, visited: Set<Doc>) => void;
+    incrementalRendering?: () => void;
+    infoUI?: () => JSX.Element | null;
+    screenBounds?: () => Opt<{ left: number; top: number; right: number; bottom: number; center?: { X: number; Y: number } }>;
+    ptToScreen?: (pt: { X: number; Y: number }) => { X: number; Y: number };
+    ptFromScreen?: (pt: { X: number; Y: number }) => { X: number; Y: number };
+    snapPt?: (pt: { X: number; Y: number }, excludeSegs?: number[]) => { nearestPt: { X: number; Y: number }; distance: number };
+    search?: (str: string, bwd?: boolean, clear?: boolean) => boolean;
+}
+/**
+ * DocComponent returns a React base class used by Doc views with accessors for unpacking he Document,layoutDoc, and dataDoc's
+ *  (note: this should not be used for the 'Box' views that render the contents of Doc views)
+ *  Example derived views: CollectionFreeFormDocumentView, DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal)
  * */
 export interface DocComponentProps {
     Document: Doc;
@@ -26,7 +66,7 @@ export interface DocComponentProps {
 }
 export function DocComponent<P extends DocComponentProps>() {
     class Component extends ObservableReactComponent<React.PropsWithChildren<P>> {
-        constructor(props: any) {
+        constructor(props: P) {
             super(props);
             makeObservable(this);
         }
@@ -41,28 +81,25 @@ export function DocComponent<P extends DocComponentProps>() {
         }
         // This is the data part of a document -- ie, the data that is constant across all views of the document
         @computed get dataDoc() {
-            return this._props.Document[DocData];
+            return this.Document[DocData];
         }
     }
     return Component;
 }
 
 /**
- *  ViewBoxBaseComponent  -  base class for non-annotatable views that render the interior contents of a DocumentView
- *                           (e.g. InkingStroke, ColorBox)
+ *   base class for non-annotatable views that render the interior contents of a DocumentView.
+ *   this unpacks the Document/layout/data docs as well as the fieldKey being rendered,
+ *   and provides accessors for DocumentView and ScreenToLocalBoxXf
+ *   Example views include: InkingStroke, FontIconBox, EquationBox, etc
  */
-export interface ViewBoxBaseProps {
-    Document: Doc;
-    TemplateDataDocument?: Doc;
-    DocumentView?: () => DocumentView;
-    fieldKey: string;
-    isSelected: () => boolean;
-    isContentActive: () => boolean | undefined;
-    ScreenToLocalTransform: () => Transform;
-    renderDepth: number;
-}
-export function ViewBoxBaseComponent<P extends ViewBoxBaseProps>() {
+export function ViewBoxBaseComponent<P extends FieldViewProps>() {
     class Component extends ObservableReactComponent<React.PropsWithChildren<P>> {
+        constructor(props: P) {
+            super(props);
+            makeObservable(this);
+        }
+
         ScreenToLocalBoxXf = () => this._props.ScreenToLocalTransform();
 
         get DocumentView() {
@@ -89,36 +126,27 @@ export function ViewBoxBaseComponent<P extends ViewBoxBaseProps>() {
 }
 
 /**
- * DocAnnotatableComponent - base class for annotatable views that render the interior contents of a DocumentView
- *                       (e.g., PdfBox, ImageBox)
- * These views should be interactive (respond to pointerEvents) when their conatainer DocumentView is selected
+ * base class for annotatable views that render the interior contents of a DocumentView
+ * This does what ViewBoxBaseComponent does and additionally provides accessor for the
+ * field key where annotations are stored as well as add/move/remove methods for handing
+ * annotations.
+ * This also provides methods to determine when the contents should be interactive
+ * (respond to pointerEvents) such as when the DocumentView container is selected or a
+ * peer child of the container is selected
+ * Example views include: PDFBox, ImageBox, MapBox, etc
  */
-export interface ViewBoxAnnotatableProps {
-    Document: Doc;
-    TemplateDataDocument?: Doc;
-    DocumentView?: () => DocumentView;
-    fieldKey: string;
-    filterAddDocument?: (doc: Doc[]) => boolean; // allows a document that renders a Collection view to filter or modify any documents added to the collection (see PresBox for an example)
-    isContentActive: () => boolean | undefined;
-    select: (isCtrlPressed: boolean) => void;
-    whenChildContentsActiveChanged: (isActive: boolean) => void;
-    ScreenToLocalTransform: () => Transform;
-    isSelected: () => boolean;
-    renderDepth: number;
-    isAnnotationOverlay?: boolean;
-}
-export function ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<P extends ViewBoxAnnotatableProps>() {
+export function ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<P extends FieldViewProps>() {
     class Component extends ObservableReactComponent<React.PropsWithChildren<P>> {
-        constructor(props: any) {
+        @observable _annotationKeySuffix = () => 'annotations';
+        @observable _isAnyChildContentActive = false;
+
+        constructor(props: P) {
             super(props);
             makeObservable(this);
         }
 
         ScreenToLocalBoxXf = () => this._props.ScreenToLocalTransform();
 
-        @observable _annotationKeySuffix = () => 'annotations';
-        @observable _isAnyChildContentActive = false;
-
         get DocumentView() {
             return this._props.DocumentView;
         }
@@ -139,9 +167,6 @@ export function ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<P extends ViewBoxAnnotatableProps>()
         @computed get fieldKey() {
             return this._props.fieldKey;
         }
-
-        isAnyChildContentActive = () => this._isAnyChildContentActive;
-
         @computed public get annotationKey() {
             return this.fieldKey + (this._annotationKeySuffix() ? '_' + this._annotationKeySuffix() : '');
         }
@@ -162,7 +187,7 @@ export function ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<P extends ViewBoxAnnotatableProps>()
                 toRemove.forEach(doc => {
                     leavePushpin && DocUtils.LeavePushpin(doc, annotationKey ?? this.annotationKey);
                     Doc.RemoveDocFromList(targetDataDoc, annotationKey ?? this.annotationKey, doc);
-                    Doc.RemoveDocFromList(Doc.GetProto(doc), 'proto_embeddings', doc);
+                    Doc.RemoveDocFromList(doc[DocData], 'proto_embeddings', doc);
                     doc.embedContainer = undefined;
                     if (recent) {
                         doc.type !== DocumentType.LOADING && Doc.AddDocToList(recent, 'data', doc, undefined, true, true);
@@ -210,8 +235,8 @@ export function ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<P extends ViewBoxAnnotatableProps>()
                 if ([AclAugment, AclEdit, AclAdmin].includes(effectiveAcl)) {
                     added.forEach(doc => {
                         doc._dragOnlyWithinContainer = undefined;
-                        if (annotationKey ?? this._annotationKeySuffix()) Doc.GetProto(doc).annotationOn = this.Document;
-                        else Doc.GetProto(doc).annotationOn = undefined;
+                        if (annotationKey ?? this._annotationKeySuffix()) doc[DocData].annotationOn = this.Document;
+                        else doc[DocData].annotationOn = undefined;
                         Doc.SetContainer(doc, this.Document);
                         inheritParentAcls(targetDataDoc, doc, true);
                     });
@@ -225,6 +250,8 @@ export function ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<P extends ViewBoxAnnotatableProps>()
             return true;
         };
 
+        isAnyChildContentActive = () => this._isAnyChildContentActive;
+
         whenChildContentsActiveChanged = action((isActive: boolean) => this._props.whenChildContentsActiveChanged((this._isAnyChildContentActive = isActive)));
     }
     return Component;
diff --git a/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx b/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
index 8db972ef0..5ef62b2c5 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DocumentDecorations.tsx
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { FaUndo } from 'react-icons/fa';
 import { Utils, emptyFunction, lightOrDark, numberValue, returnFalse, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../Utils';
 import { DateField } from '../../fields/DateField';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Field, HierarchyMapping, ReverseHierarchyMap } from '../../fields/Doc';
-import { AclAdmin, AclAugment, AclEdit } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { AclAdmin, AclAugment, AclEdit, DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { InkField } from '../../fields/InkField';
 import { RichTextField } from '../../fields/RichTextField';
 import { ScriptField } from '../../fields/ScriptField';
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentDecora
             { x: 0, y: 0, r: 0, b: 0 }
             : SelectionManager.Views
                 .filter(dv => dv._props.renderDepth > 0)
-                .map(dv => dv.getBounds())
+                .map(dv => dv.getBounds)
                 .reduce((bounds, rect) => !rect ? bounds
                             : { x: Math.min(rect.left, bounds.x),
                                 y: Math.min(rect.top, bounds.y),
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentDecora
         const containers = new Set<Doc | undefined>();
         SelectionManager.Views.forEach(v => containers.add(DocCast(v.Document.embedContainer)));
         if (containers.size > 1) return false;
-        const { left, top } = dragDocView.getBounds() || { left: 0, top: 0 };
+        const { left, top } = dragDocView.getBounds || { left: 0, top: 0 };
         const dragData = new DragManager.DocumentDragData(
             SelectionManager.Views.map(dv => dv.Document),
             dragDocView._props.dropAction
@@ -541,17 +541,17 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentDecora
             }
 
             if (['right', 'left'].includes(opts.dragHdl) && modifyNativeDim && Doc.NativeWidth(doc)) {
-                const setData = Doc.NativeWidth(Doc.GetProto(doc)) === doc.nativeWidth;
+                const setData = Doc.NativeWidth(doc[DocData]) === doc.nativeWidth;
                 doc.nativeWidth = scale.x * Doc.NativeWidth(doc);
-                if (setData) Doc.SetNativeWidth(Doc.GetProto(doc), NumCast(doc.nativeWidth));
+                if (setData) Doc.SetNativeWidth(doc[DocData], NumCast(doc.nativeWidth));
                 if (doc.layout_reflowVertical && !NumCast(doc.nativeHeight)) {
                     doc._nativeHeight = (initHeight / initWidth) * nwidth; // initializes the nativeHeight for a PDF
                 }
             }
             if (['bottom', 'top'].includes(opts.dragHdl) && modifyNativeDim && Doc.NativeHeight(doc)) {
-                const setData = Doc.NativeHeight(Doc.GetProto(doc)) === doc.nativeHeight;
+                const setData = Doc.NativeHeight(doc[DocData]) === doc.nativeHeight;
                 doc._nativeHeight = scale.y * Doc.NativeHeight(doc);
-                if (setData) Doc.SetNativeHeight(Doc.GetProto(doc), NumCast(doc._nativeHeight));
+                if (setData) Doc.SetNativeHeight(doc[DocData], NumCast(doc._nativeHeight));
             }
 
             doc._width = Math.max(1, NumCast(doc._width) * scale.x);
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ export class DocumentDecorations extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentDecora
         this._inkDragDocs
             .map(oldbds => ({ oldbds, inkPts: Cast(oldbds.doc.data, InkField)?.inkData || [] }))
             .forEach(({ oldbds: { doc, x, y, width, height }, inkPts }) => {
-                Doc.GetProto(doc).data = new InkField(inkPts.map(
+                doc[DocData].data = new InkField(inkPts.map(
                     (ipt) => ({// (new x — oldx) + newWidth * (oldxpoint /oldWidth)
                         X: NumCast(doc.x) - x + (NumCast(doc.width) * ipt.X) / width,
                         Y: NumCast(doc.y) - y + (NumCast(doc.height) * ipt.Y) / height,
diff --git a/src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx b/src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx
index 11b05352d..92644d3c5 100644
--- a/src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/InkingStroke.tsx
@@ -34,21 +34,19 @@ import { InteractionUtils } from '../util/InteractionUtils';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../util/SnappingManager';
 import { UndoManager } from '../util/UndoManager';
 import { ContextMenu } from './ContextMenu';
-import { ViewBoxBaseComponent, ViewBoxBaseProps } from './DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxBaseComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from './DocComponent';
 import { Colors } from './global/globalEnums';
 import { InkControlPtHandles, InkEndPtHandles } from './InkControlPtHandles';
 import './InkStroke.scss';
 import { InkStrokeProperties } from './InkStrokeProperties';
 import { InkTangentHandles } from './InkTangentHandles';
-import { DocComponentView } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './nodes/FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './nodes/trails';
 import { StyleProp } from './StyleProvider';
-import { Transform } from '../util/Transform';
 const { default: { INK_MASK_SIZE } } = require('./global/globalCssVariables.module.scss'); // prettier-ignore
 @observer
-export class InkingStroke extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<ViewBoxBaseProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class InkingStroke extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     static readonly MaskDim = INK_MASK_SIZE; // choose a really big number to make sure mask fits over container (which in theory can be arbitrarily big)
     public static LayoutString(fieldStr: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(InkingStroke, fieldStr);
@@ -64,7 +62,7 @@ export class InkingStroke extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<ViewBoxBaseProps & FieldV
     @observable _nearestScrPt?: { X: number; Y: number }; // nearst screen point on the ink stroke ""
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         this._disposers.selfDisper = reaction(
             () => this._props.isSelected(), // react to stroke being deselected by turning off ink handles
             selected => !selected && (InkStrokeProperties.Instance._controlButton = false)
@@ -332,8 +330,8 @@ export class InkingStroke extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<ViewBoxBaseProps & FieldV
         );
     };
 
-    _subContentView: DocComponentView | undefined;
-    setSubContentView = (doc: DocComponentView) => (this._subContentView = doc);
+    _subContentView: ViewBoxInterface | undefined;
+    setSubContentView = (doc: ViewBoxInterface) => (this._subContentView = doc);
     @computed get fillColor() {
         const isInkMask = BoolCast(this.layoutDoc.stroke_isInkMask);
         return isInkMask ? DashColor(StrCast(this.layoutDoc.fillColor, 'transparent')).blacken(0).rgb().toString() : this._props.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this._props, StyleProp.FillColor) ?? 'transparent';
@@ -462,7 +460,7 @@ export class InkingStroke extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<ViewBoxBaseProps & FieldV
                         <FormattedTextBox
                             {...this._props}
                             setHeight={undefined}
-                            setContentView={this.setSubContentView} // this makes the inkingStroke the "dominant" component - ie, it will show the inking UI when selected (not text)
+                            setContentViewBox={this.setSubContentView} // this makes the inkingStroke the "dominant" component - ie, it will show the inking UI when selected (not text)
                             yPadding={10}
                             xPadding={10}
                             fieldKey="text"
diff --git a/src/client/views/LightboxView.tsx b/src/client/views/LightboxView.tsx
index 3b86d24a6..530fd3121 100644
--- a/src/client/views/LightboxView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/LightboxView.tsx
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ export class LightboxView extends ObservableReactComponent<LightboxViewProps> {
                             addDocTab={this.AddDocTab}
                             pinToPres={TabDocView.PinDoc}
                             bringToFront={emptyFunction}
-                            onBrowseClick={DocumentView.exploreMode}
+                            onBrowseClickScript={DocumentView.exploreMode}
                             focus={emptyFunction}
                         />
                     </GestureOverlay>
diff --git a/src/client/views/MainView.tsx b/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
index d700ea020..9061e98d4 100644
--- a/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/MainView.tsx
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import { DocServer } from '../DocServer';
 import { GoogleAuthenticationManager } from '../apis/GoogleAuthenticationManager';
 import { CollectionViewType, DocumentType } from '../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { Docs } from '../documents/Documents';
+import { CalendarManager } from '../util/CalendarManager';
 import { CaptureManager } from '../util/CaptureManager';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../util/DocumentManager';
 import { DragManager } from '../util/DragManager';
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ import { SnappingManager } from '../util/SnappingManager';
 import { Transform } from '../util/Transform';
 import { ReportManager } from '../util/reportManager/ReportManager';
 import { ComponentDecorations } from './ComponentDecorations';
-import { SchemaCSVPopUp } from './nodes/DataVizBox/SchemaCSVPopUp';
 import { ContextMenu } from './ContextMenu';
 import { DashboardView } from './DashboardView';
 import { DictationOverlay } from './DictationOverlay';
@@ -55,11 +55,13 @@ import { MarqueeOptionsMenu } from './collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeOpti
 import { CollectionLinearView } from './collections/collectionLinear';
 import { LinkMenu } from './linking/LinkMenu';
 import { AudioBox } from './nodes/AudioBox';
+import { SchemaCSVPopUp } from './nodes/DataVizBox/SchemaCSVPopUp';
 import { DocButtonState } from './nodes/DocumentLinksButton';
 import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod, returnEmptyDocViewList } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 import { ImageBox } from './nodes/ImageBox';
 import { LinkDescriptionPopup } from './nodes/LinkDescriptionPopup';
 import { LinkDocPreview, LinkInfo } from './nodes/LinkDocPreview';
+import { DirectionsAnchorMenu } from './nodes/MapBox/DirectionsAnchorMenu';
 import { MapAnchorMenu } from './nodes/MapBox/MapAnchorMenu';
 import { TaskCompletionBox } from './nodes/TaskCompletedBox';
 import { DashFieldViewMenu } from './nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView';
@@ -70,9 +72,8 @@ import { PresBox } from './nodes/trails';
 import { AnchorMenu } from './pdf/AnchorMenu';
 import { GPTPopup } from './pdf/GPTPopup/GPTPopup';
 import { TopBar } from './topbar/TopBar';
+import { DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 const { default: { LEFT_MENU_WIDTH, TOPBAR_HEIGHT } } = require('./global/globalCssVariables.module.scss'); // prettier-ignore
-import { DirectionsAnchorMenu } from './nodes/MapBox/DirectionsAnchorMenu';
-import { CalendarManager } from '../util/CalendarManager';
 const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
 
 @observer
@@ -130,9 +131,19 @@ export class MainView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
     @computed public get mainFreeform(): Opt<Doc> {
         return (docs => (docs?.length > 1 ? docs[1] : undefined))(DocListCast(this.mainContainer!.data));
     }
+    @observable public headerBarHeight: number = 0;
+    headerBarHeightFunc = () => this.headerBarHeight;
 
+    @action
+    toggleTopBar = () => {
+        if (this.headerBarHeight > 0) {
+            this.headerBarHeight = 0;
+        } else {
+            this.headerBarHeight = 60;
+        }
+    };
     headerBarDocWidth = () => this.mainDocViewWidth();
-    headerBarDocHeight = () => (this._hideUI ? 0 : SettingsManager.Instance?.headerBarHeight ?? 0);
+    headerBarDocHeight = () => (this._hideUI ? 0 : this.headerBarHeight ?? 0);
     topMenuHeight = () => (this._hideUI ? 0 : 35);
     topMenuWidth = returnZero; // value is ignored ...
     leftMenuWidth = () => (this._hideUI ? 0 : Number(LEFT_MENU_WIDTH.replace('px', '')));
@@ -630,9 +641,11 @@ export class MainView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
         );
     }
     @computed get mainDocView() {
+        const headerBar = this._hideUI || !this.headerBarDocHeight?.() ? null : this.headerBarDocView;
+        console.log('Header = ' + this._hideUI + ' ' + this.headerBarDocHeight?.() + ' ' + headerBar);
         return (
             <>
-                {this._hideUI || !this.headerBarDocHeight?.() ? null : this.headerBarDocView}
+                {headerBar}
                 <DocumentView
                     key="main"
                     Document={this.mainContainer!}
@@ -783,7 +796,7 @@ export class MainView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
 
     @action
     selectMenu = (button: Doc) => {
-        const title = StrCast(Doc.GetProto(button).title);
+        const title = StrCast(button[DocData].title);
         const willOpen = !this._leftMenuFlyoutWidth || this._panelContent !== title;
         this.closeFlyout();
         if (willOpen) {
@@ -998,7 +1011,7 @@ export class MainView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
                 <DocumentDecorations boundsLeft={this.leftScreenOffsetOfMainDocView} boundsTop={this.topOfSidebarDoc} PanelWidth={this._windowWidth} PanelHeight={this._windowHeight} />
                 <ComponentDecorations boundsLeft={this.leftScreenOffsetOfMainDocView} boundsTop={this.topOfMainDocContent} />
                 {this._hideUI ? null : <TopBar />}
-                {LinkDescriptionPopup.descriptionPopup ? <LinkDescriptionPopup /> : null}
+                <LinkDescriptionPopup />
                 {DocButtonState.Instance.LinkEditorDocView ? <LinkMenu clearLinkEditor={action(() => (DocButtonState.Instance.LinkEditorDocView = undefined))} docView={DocButtonState.Instance.LinkEditorDocView} /> : null}
                 {LinkInfo.Instance?.LinkInfo ? <LinkDocPreview {...LinkInfo.Instance.LinkInfo} /> : null}
 
@@ -1008,7 +1021,7 @@ export class MainView extends ObservableReactComponent<{}> {
                         default:
                         case 'dashboard': return (<>
                                         <div key="dashdiv" style={{ position: 'relative', display: this._hideUI || LightboxView.LightboxDoc ? 'none' : undefined, zIndex: 2001 }}>
-                                            <CollectionMenu panelWidth={this.topMenuWidth} panelHeight={this.topMenuHeight} />
+                                            <CollectionMenu panelWidth={this.topMenuWidth} panelHeight={this.topMenuHeight} toggleTopBar={this.toggleTopBar} topBarHeight={this.headerBarHeightFunc}/>
                                         </div>
                                         {this.mainDashboardArea}
                                     </> );
diff --git a/src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx b/src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx
index d0516336c..a4303c3aa 100644
--- a/src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/MarqueeAnnotator.tsx
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ export class MarqueeAnnotator extends ObservableReactComponent<MarqueeAnnotatorP
             })
         );
 
-        const textRegionAnnoProto = Doc.GetProto(textRegionAnno);
+        const textRegionAnnoProto = textRegionAnno[DocData];
         textRegionAnnoProto.y = Math.max(minY, 0);
         textRegionAnnoProto.x = Math.max(minX, 0);
         textRegionAnnoProto.height = Math.max(maxY, 0) - Math.max(minY, 0);
@@ -226,9 +226,10 @@ export class MarqueeAnnotator extends ObservableReactComponent<MarqueeAnnotatorP
                   DragManager.StartAnchorAnnoDrag([ele], new DragManager.AnchorAnnoDragData(this.props.docView(), sourceAnchorCreator, targetCreator), e.pageX, e.pageY, {
                       dragComplete: e => {
                           if (!e.aborted && e.linkDocument) {
-                              Doc.GetProto(e.linkDocument).link_relationship = 'cropped image';
-                              Doc.GetProto(e.linkDocument).title = 'crop: ' + this.props.Document.title;
-                              Doc.GetProto(e.linkDocument).link_displayLine = false;
+                              const linkDocData = e.linkDocument[DocData];
+                              linkDocData.link_relationship = 'cropped image';
+                              linkDocData.title = 'crop: ' + this.props.Document.title;
+                              linkDocData.link_displayLine = false;
                           }
                       },
                   });
diff --git a/src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx b/src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx
index 13057ffbf..952c8f0b4 100644
--- a/src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/PropertiesView.tsx
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ import { PropertiesDocContextSelector } from './PropertiesDocContextSelector';
 import { PropertiesSection } from './PropertiesSection';
 import './PropertiesView.scss';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider } from './StyleProvider';
-import { DocumentView, OpenWhere, StyleProviderFunc } from './nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from './nodes/DocumentView';
+import { StyleProviderFuncType } from './nodes/FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from './nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { PresBox, PresEffect, PresEffectDirection } from './nodes/trails';
 const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
 interface PropertiesViewProps {
     width: number;
     height: number;
-    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFunc;
+    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFuncType;
     addDocTab: (doc: Doc, where: OpenWhere) => boolean;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/ScriptBox.tsx b/src/client/views/ScriptBox.tsx
index 086f40e96..623201ed1 100644
--- a/src/client/views/ScriptBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/ScriptBox.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { EditableView } from './EditableView';
 import { DocumentIconContainer } from './nodes/DocumentIcon';
 import { OverlayView } from './OverlayView';
 import './ScriptBox.scss';
+import { DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 
 export interface ScriptBoxProps {
     onSave: (text: string, onError: (error: string) => void) => void;
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ export class ScriptBox extends React.Component<ScriptBoxProps> {
                 onCancel={overlayDisposer}
                 onSave={(text, onError) => {
                     if (!text) {
-                        Doc.GetProto(doc)[fieldKey] = undefined;
+                        doc[DocData][fieldKey] = undefined;
                     } else {
                         const script = CompileScript(text, {
                             params: { this: Doc.name, ...contextParams },
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ export class ScriptBox extends React.Component<ScriptBoxProps> {
                         div.innerHTML = 'button';
                         params.length && DragManager.StartButtonDrag([div], text, doc.title + '-instance', {}, params, (button: Doc) => {}, clientX, clientY);
 
-                        Doc.GetProto(doc)[fieldKey] = new ScriptField(script);
+                        doc[DocData][fieldKey] = new ScriptField(script);
                         overlayDisposer();
                     }
                 }}
diff --git a/src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx b/src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx
index 0f4a4260c..1e9272e93 100644
--- a/src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/SidebarAnnos.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { StyleProp } from './StyleProvider';
 import { CollectionStackingView } from './collections/CollectionStackingView';
 import { FieldViewProps } from './nodes/FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
+import { DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 
 interface ExtraProps {
     fieldKey: string;
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ export class SidebarAnnos extends ObservableReactComponent<FieldViewProps & Extr
             .map(data => {
                 const key = data.split(':')[0];
                 const val = Field.Copy(this.allMetadata.get(key));
-                Doc.GetProto(target)[key] = val;
+                target[DocData][key] = val;
                 return {
                     type: 'dashField',
                     attrs: { fieldKey: key, docId: '', hideKey: false, editable: true },
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ export class SidebarAnnos extends ObservableReactComponent<FieldViewProps & Extr
                 };
             });
 
-        if (!anchor.text) Doc.GetProto(anchor).text = '-selection-';
+        if (!anchor.text) anchor[DocData].text = '-selection-';
         const textLines: any = [
             {
                 type: 'paragraph',
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ export class SidebarAnnos extends ObservableReactComponent<FieldViewProps & Extr
         };
         if (taggedContent.length) textLines.push(metadatatext);
         if (textLines.length) {
-            Doc.GetProto(target).text = new RichTextField(
+            target[DocData].text = new RichTextField(
                 JSON.stringify({
                     doc: {
                         type: 'doc',
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ export class SidebarAnnos extends ObservableReactComponent<FieldViewProps & Extr
                 <div style={{ width: '100%', height: `calc(100% - 38px)`, position: 'relative' }}>
                     <CollectionStackingView
                         {...this._props}
-                        setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                        setContentViewBox={emptyFunction}
                         NativeWidth={returnZero}
                         NativeHeight={returnZero}
                         ref={this._stackRef}
diff --git a/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx b/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
index 1cb5ff249..2aba439c8 100644
--- a/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/StyleProvider.tsx
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import { FieldViewProps } from './nodes/FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from './nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { PropertiesView } from './PropertiesView';
 import './StyleProvider.scss';
+import { DocumentViewProps } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 
 export enum StyleProp {
     TreeViewIcon = 'treeView_Icon',
@@ -65,13 +66,12 @@ export function wavyBorderPath(pw: number, ph: number, inset: number = 0.05) {
 
 // a preliminary implementation of a dash style sheet for setting rendering properties of documents nested within a Tab
 //
-export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>, property: string): any {
+export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps & DocumentViewProps>, property: string): any {
     const remoteDocHeader = 'author;author_date;noMargin';
     const isCaption = property.includes(':caption');
     const isAnchor = property.includes(':anchor');
     const isNonTransparent = property.includes(':nonTransparent');
     const isNonTransparentLevel = isNonTransparent ? Number(property.replace(/.*:nonTransparent([0-9]+).*/, '$1')) : 0; // property.includes(':nonTransparent');
-    const isContent = property.includes(':content');
     const isAnnotated = property.includes(':annotated');
     const isInk = () => doc?._layout_isSvg && !props?.LayoutTemplateString;
     const isOpen = property.includes(':open');
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
         case StyleProp.FontFamily: return StrCast(doc?.[fieldKey + 'fontFamily'], StrCast(doc?._text_fontFamily, StrCast(Doc.UserDoc().fontFamily)));
         case StyleProp.FontWeight: return StrCast(doc?.[fieldKey + 'fontWeight'], StrCast(doc?._text_fontWeight, StrCast(Doc.UserDoc().fontWeight)));
         case StyleProp.FillColor:  return StrCast(doc?._fillColor, StrCast(doc?.fillColor, 'transparent'));
-        case StyleProp.ShowCaption:return doc?._type_collection === CollectionViewType.Carousel ? undefined: StrCast(doc?._layout_showCaption);
+        case StyleProp.ShowCaption:return props?.hideCaptions || doc?._type_collection === CollectionViewType.Carousel ? undefined: StrCast(doc?._layout_showCaption);
         case StyleProp.TitleHeight:return (props?.ScreenToLocalTransform().Scale ?? 1) * NumCast(Doc.UserDoc().headerHeight,30);
         case StyleProp.ShowTitle:
             return (
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
                         ? `gray ${StrCast(doc.layout_boxShadow, `0vw 0vw ${(lockedPosition() ? 100 : 50) / (props?.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1)}px`)}` // if it's just in a cluster, make the shadown roughly match the cluster border extent
                         : lockedPosition()
                         ? undefined // if it's a background & has a cluster color, make the shadow spread really big
-                        : StrCast(doc.layout_fieldKey).includes('_inline')  // if doc is an inline document in a text box
+                        : fieldKey.includes('_inline')  // if doc is an inline document in a text box
                         ? `${Colors.DARK_GRAY} ${StrCast(doc.layout_boxShadow, '0vw 0vw 0.1vw')}`
                         : DocCast(doc.embedContainer)?.type=== DocumentType.RTF // if doc is embedded in a text document (but not an inline)
                         ? `${Colors.DARK_GRAY} ${StrCast(doc.layout_boxShadow, '0.2vw 0.2vw 0.8vw')}`
@@ -316,11 +316,11 @@ export function DefaultStyleProvider(doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>,
             };
             const audio = () => {
                 const audioAnnoState = (doc: Doc) => StrCast(doc.audioAnnoState, 'stopped');
-                const audioAnnosCount = (doc: Doc) => StrListCast(doc[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc) + '_audioAnnotations']).length;
+                const audioAnnosCount = (doc: Doc) => StrListCast(doc[fieldKey + 'audioAnnotations']).length;
                 if (!doc || props?.renderDepth === -1 || !audioAnnosCount(doc)) return null;
                 const audioIconColors: { [key: string]: string } = { recording: 'red', playing: 'green', stopped: 'blue' };
                 return (
-                    <Tooltip title={<div>{StrListCast(doc[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc) + '_audioAnnotations_text']).lastElement()}</div>}>
+                    <Tooltip title={<div>{StrListCast(doc[fieldKey + 'audioAnnotations_text']).lastElement()}</div>}>
                         <div className="styleProvider-audio" onPointerDown={() => DocumentManager.Instance.getFirstDocumentView(doc)?.playAnnotation()}>
                             <FontAwesomeIcon className="documentView-audioFont" style={{ color: audioIconColors[audioAnnoState(doc)] }} icon={'file-audio'} size="sm" />
                         </div>
diff --git a/src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx b/src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx
index e5154efcb..ba7120b93 100644
--- a/src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/TemplateMenu.tsx
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ import { ScriptingGlobals } from '../util/ScriptingGlobals';
 import { Transform } from '../util/Transform';
 import { undoBatch } from '../util/UndoManager';
 import { CollectionTreeView } from './collections/CollectionTreeView';
-import { DocumentView } from './nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, returnEmptyDocViewList } from './nodes/DocumentView';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider } from './StyleProvider';
 import './TemplateMenu.scss';
+import { DocData } from '../../fields/DocSymbols';
 
 @observer
 class TemplateToggle extends React.Component<{ template: string; checked: boolean; toggle: (event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>, template: string) => void }> {
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ export class TemplateMenu extends React.Component<TemplateMenuProps> {
     };
     componentDidMount() {
         !this._addedKeys && (this._addedKeys = new ObservableSet());
-        [...Array.from(Object.keys(Doc.GetProto(this.props.docViews[0].Document))), ...Array.from(Object.keys(this.props.docViews[0].Document))]
+        [...Array.from(Object.keys(this.props.docViews[0].Document[DocData])), ...Array.from(Object.keys(this.props.docViews[0].Document))]
             .filter(key => key.startsWith('layout_'))
             .map(key => runInAction(() => this._addedKeys.add(key.replace('layout_', ''))));
     }
@@ -113,6 +114,7 @@ export class TemplateMenu extends React.Component<TemplateMenuProps> {
                 {templateMenu}
                 <CollectionTreeView
                     Document={Doc.MyTemplates}
+                    docViewPath={returnEmptyDocViewList}
                     styleProvider={DefaultStyleProvider}
                     childFilters={returnEmptyFilter}
                     childFiltersByRanges={returnEmptyFilter}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCalendarView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCalendarView.tsx
index 4c0a917f5..cbcc980a9 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCalendarView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCalendarView.tsx
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export class CollectionCalendarView extends CollectionSubView() {
     screenToLocalTransform = () =>
         this._props
             .ScreenToLocalTransform()
-            .translate(Doc.NativeWidth(this._props.Document), 0)
+            .translate(Doc.NativeWidth(this.Document), 0)
             .scale(this._props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1);
 
     get calendarsKey() {
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ export class CollectionCalendarView extends CollectionSubView() {
             <div className="collectionCalendarView">
                 <CollectionStackingView
                     {...this._props}
-                    setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                    setContentViewBox={emptyFunction}
                     ref={this._stackRef}
                     PanelHeight={this.panelHeight}
                     PanelWidth={this._props.PanelWidth}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx
index 8e072e235..2d2cb4860 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarousel3DView.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ import { DocumentType } from '../../documents/DocumentTypes';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
 import { SelectionManager } from '../../util/SelectionManager';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import './CollectionCarousel3DView.scss';
 import { CollectionSubView } from './CollectionSubView';
 const { default: { CAROUSEL3D_CENTER_SCALE, CAROUSEL3D_SIDE_SCALE, CAROUSEL3D_TOP } } = require('../global/globalCssVariables.module.scss'); // prettier-ignore
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ export class CollectionCarousel3DView extends CollectionSubView() {
             .translate(-this.panelWidth() + ((this.centerScale - 1) * this.panelWidth()) / 2, -((Number(CAROUSEL3D_TOP) / 100) * this._props.PanelHeight()) + ((this.centerScale - 1) * this.panelHeight()) / 2)
             .scale(1 / this.centerScale);
 
-    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         const docs = DocListCast(this.Document[this.fieldKey ?? Doc.LayoutFieldKey(this.Document)]);
         if (anchor.type !== DocumentType.CONFIG && !docs.includes(anchor)) return;
         options.didMove = true;
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ export class CollectionCarousel3DView extends CollectionSubView() {
                     NativeWidth={returnZero}
                     NativeHeight={returnZero}
                     layout_fitWidth={undefined}
-                    onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClick}
+                    onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClick}
                     renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
                     LayoutTemplate={this._props.childLayoutTemplate}
                     LayoutTemplateString={this._props.childLayoutString}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx
index 208fc45b5..79f5baabe 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionCarouselView.tsx
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ export class CollectionCarouselView extends CollectionSubView() {
                         NativeWidth={returnZero}
                         NativeHeight={returnZero}
                         layout_fitWidth={undefined}
-                        setContentView={undefined}
-                        onDoubleClick={this.onContentDoubleClick}
-                        onClick={this.onContentClick}
+                        setContentViewBox={undefined}
+                        onDoubleClickScript={this.onContentDoubleClick}
+                        onClickScript={this.onContentClick}
                         isDocumentActive={this._props.childDocumentsActive?.() ? this._props.isDocumentActive : this._props.isContentActive}
                         isContentActive={this._props.childContentsActive ?? this._props.isContentActive() === false ? returnFalse : emptyFunction}
                         hideCaptions={!!carouselShowsCaptions} // hide captions if the carousel is configured to show the captions
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
index 1f867fc44..87973fd81 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionDockingView.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client';
 import * as GoldenLayout from '../../../client/goldenLayout';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Opt } from '../../../fields/Doc';
-import { AclAdmin, AclEdit } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { AclAdmin, AclEdit, DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { InkTool } from '../../../fields/InkField';
 import { List } from '../../../fields/List';
@@ -277,8 +277,8 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends CollectionSubView() {
     }
     setupGoldenLayout = async () => {
         if (this._unmounting) return;
-        //const config = StrCast(this._props.Document.dockingConfig, JSON.stringify(DashboardView.resetDashboard(this._props.Document)));
-        const config = StrCast(this._props.Document.dockingConfig);
+        //const config = StrCast(this.Document.dockingConfig, JSON.stringify(DashboardView.resetDashboard(this.Document)));
+        const config = StrCast(this.Document.dockingConfig);
         if (config) {
             const matches = config.match(/\"documentId\":\"[a-z0-9-]+\"/g);
             const docids = matches?.map(m => m.replace('"documentId":"', '').replace('"', '')) ?? [];
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends CollectionSubView() {
             );
             new _global.ResizeObserver(this.onResize).observe(this._containerRef.current);
             this._reactionDisposer = reaction(
-                () => StrCast(this._props.Document.dockingConfig),
+                () => StrCast(this.Document.dockingConfig),
                 config => {
                     if (!this._goldenLayout || this._ignoreStateChange !== config) {
                         //  bcz: TODO! really need to diff config with ignoreStateChange and modify the current goldenLayout instead of building a new one.
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends CollectionSubView() {
                   .map(id => DocServer.GetCachedRefField(id))
                   .filter(f => f)
                   .map(f => f as Doc);
-        const changesMade = this._props.Document.dockingConfig !== json;
+        const changesMade = this.Document.dockingConfig !== json;
         if (changesMade) {
             if (![AclAdmin, AclEdit].includes(GetEffectiveAcl(this.dataDoc))) {
                 this.layoutDoc.dockingConfig = json;
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends CollectionSubView() {
         if (clone) {
             const cloned = await Doc.MakeClone(doc);
             Array.from(cloned.map.entries()).map(entry => (json = json.replace(entry[0], entry[1][Id])));
-            Doc.GetProto(cloned.clone).dockingConfig = json;
+            cloned.clone[DocData].dockingConfig = json;
             return DashboardView.openDashboard(cloned.clone);
         }
         const matches = json.match(/\"documentId\":\"[a-z0-9-]+\"/g);
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends CollectionSubView() {
             const newtab = origtabdocs.length ? Doc.MakeCopy(origtab, true, undefined, true) : Doc.MakeEmbedding(origtab);
             const newtabdocs = origtabdocs.map(origtabdoc => Doc.MakeEmbedding(origtabdoc));
             if (newtabdocs.length) {
-                Doc.GetProto(newtab).data = new List<Doc>(newtabdocs);
+                newtab[DocData].data = new List<Doc>(newtabdocs);
                 newtabdocs.forEach(ntab => Doc.SetContainer(ntab, newtab));
             }
             json = json.replace(origtab[Id], newtab[Id]);
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends CollectionSubView() {
     stateChanged = () => {
         this._ignoreStateChange = JSON.stringify(this._goldenLayout.toConfig());
         const json = JSON.stringify(this._goldenLayout.toConfig());
-        const changesMade = this._props.Document.dockingConfig !== json;
+        const changesMade = this.Document.dockingConfig !== json;
         return changesMade;
     };
 
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ export class CollectionDockingView extends CollectionSubView() {
             // if you close a tab that is not embedded somewhere else (an embedded Doc can be opened simultaneously in a tab), then add the tab to recently closed
             if (tab.DashDoc.embedContainer === this.Document) tab.DashDoc.embedContainer = undefined;
             if (!tab.DashDoc.embedContainer) Doc.AddDocToList(Doc.MyRecentlyClosed, 'data', tab.DashDoc, undefined, true, true);
-            Doc.RemoveDocFromList(Doc.GetProto(tab.DashDoc), 'proto_embeddings', tab.DashDoc);
+            Doc.RemoveDocFromList(tab.DashDoc[DocData], 'proto_embeddings', tab.DashDoc);
         }
         if (CollectionDockingView.Instance) {
             const dview = CollectionDockingView.Instance.Document;
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionMenu.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionMenu.tsx
index a54a5ec81..2dad377e0 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionMenu.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionMenu.tsx
@@ -19,14 +19,17 @@ import { undoBatch } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { AntimodeMenu } from '../AntimodeMenu';
 import { EditableView } from '../EditableView';
 import { MainView } from '../MainView';
-import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { CollectionLinearView } from './collectionLinear';
 import './CollectionMenu.scss';
+import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 
 interface CollectionMenuProps {
     panelHeight: () => number;
     panelWidth: () => number;
+    toggleTopBar: () => void;
+    topBarHeight: () => number;
 }
 
 @observer
@@ -65,15 +68,6 @@ export class CollectionMenu extends AntimodeMenu<CollectionMenuProps> {
         }
     };
 
-    @action
-    toggleTopBar = () => {
-        if (SettingsManager.Instance.headerBarHeight > 0) {
-            SettingsManager.Instance.headerBarHeight = 0;
-        } else {
-            SettingsManager.Instance.headerBarHeight = 60;
-        }
-    };
-
     @action
     toggleProperties = () => {
         if (MainView.Instance.propertiesWidth() > 0) {
@@ -95,6 +89,7 @@ export class CollectionMenu extends AntimodeMenu<CollectionMenuProps> {
             <div className="collectionMenu-contMenuButtons" ref={this._docBtnRef} style={{ height: this._props.panelHeight() }}>
                 <CollectionLinearView
                     Document={selDoc}
+                    docViewPath={returnEmptyDocViewList}
                     fieldKey="data"
                     dropAction="embed"
                     styleProvider={DefaultStyleProvider}
@@ -123,8 +118,8 @@ export class CollectionMenu extends AntimodeMenu<CollectionMenuProps> {
     }
 
     render() {
-        const headerIcon = SettingsManager.Instance.headerBarHeight > 0 ? 'angle-double-up' : 'angle-double-down';
-        const headerTitle = SettingsManager.Instance.headerBarHeight > 0 ? 'Close Header Bar' : 'Open Header Bar';
+        const headerIcon = this.props.topBarHeight() > 0 ? 'angle-double-up' : 'angle-double-down';
+        const headerTitle = this.props.topBarHeight() > 0 ? 'Close Header Bar' : 'Open Header Bar';
         const propIcon = SettingsManager.Instance.propertiesWidth > 0 ? 'angle-double-right' : 'angle-double-left';
         const propTitle = SettingsManager.Instance.propertiesWidth > 0 ? 'Close Properties' : 'Open Properties';
 
@@ -134,8 +129,8 @@ export class CollectionMenu extends AntimodeMenu<CollectionMenuProps> {
                     toggleType={ToggleType.BUTTON}
                     type={Type.PRIM}
                     color={SettingsManager.userColor}
-                    onClick={this.toggleTopBar}
-                    toggleStatus={SettingsManager.Instance.headerBarHeight > 0}
+                    onClick={this.props.toggleTopBar}
+                    toggleStatus={this.props.topBarHeight() > 0}
                     icon={<FontAwesomeIcon icon={headerIcon} size="lg" />}
                     tooltip={headerTitle}
                 />
@@ -219,7 +214,7 @@ export class CollectionViewBaseChrome extends React.Component<CollectionViewMenu
         params: ['target', 'source'],
         title: 'set content',
         script: 'getProto(this.target).data = copyField(this.source);',
-        immediate: undoBatch((source: Doc[]) => (Doc.GetProto(this.target).data = new List<Doc>(source))),
+        immediate: undoBatch((source: Doc[]) => (this.target[DocData].data = new List<Doc>(source))),
         initialize: emptyFunction,
     };
     _onClickCommand = {
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
index 363db8850..e6ce5baab 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionNoteTakingView.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import * as React from 'react';
 import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, makeObservable, observable, reaction } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
+import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc, Field, Opt } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Copy, Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ import { undoBatch } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
 import { LightboxView } from '../LightboxView';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, DocumentViewProps } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
-import { FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import './CollectionNoteTakingView.scss';
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export class CollectionNoteTakingView extends CollectionSubView() {
     }
 
     @computed get chromeHidden() {
-        return BoolCast(this.layoutDoc.chromeHidden) || this._props.onBrowseClick?.() ? true : false;
+        return BoolCast(this.layoutDoc.chromeHidden) || this._props.onBrowseClickScript?.() ? true : false;
     }
     // columnHeaders returns the list of SchemaHeaderFields currently being used by the layout doc to render the columns
     @computed get colHeaderData() {
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ export class CollectionNoteTakingView extends CollectionSubView() {
     };
 
     // let's dive in and get the actual document we want to drag/move around
-    focusDocument = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focusDocument = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         Doc.BrushDoc(doc);
         const found = this._mainCont && Array.from(this._mainCont.getElementsByClassName('documentView-node')).find((node: any) => node.id === doc[Id]);
         if (found) {
@@ -254,9 +254,9 @@ export class CollectionNoteTakingView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 rootSelected={this.rootSelected}
                 layout_showTitle={this._props.childlayout_showTitle}
                 dragAction={StrCast(this.layoutDoc.childDragAction) as dropActionType}
-                onClick={this.onChildClickHandler}
-                onBrowseClick={this._props.onBrowseClick}
-                onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
+                onClickScript={this.onChildClickHandler}
+                onBrowseClickScript={this._props.onBrowseClickScript}
+                onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
                 ScreenToLocalTransform={noteTakingDocTransform}
                 focus={this.focusDocument}
                 childFilters={this.childDocFilters}
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ export class CollectionNoteTakingView extends CollectionSubView() {
         if ((e.ctrlKey || fieldProps.Document._createDocOnCR) && ['Enter'].includes(e.key)) {
             e.stopPropagation?.();
             const newDoc = Doc.MakeCopy(fieldProps.Document, true);
-            Doc.GetProto(newDoc).text = undefined;
+            newDoc[DocData].text = undefined;
             FormattedTextBox.SetSelectOnLoad(newDoc);
             return this.addDocument?.(newDoc);
         }
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ export class CollectionNoteTakingView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 }
                 return true;
             }
-        } else if (de.complete.linkDragData?.dragDocument.embedContainer === this._props.Document && de.complete.linkDragData?.linkDragView?.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView) {
+        } else if (de.complete.linkDragData?.dragDocument.embedContainer === this.Document && de.complete.linkDragData?.linkDragView?.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView) {
             const source = Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { _width: 200, _height: 75, _layout_fitWidth: true, title: 'dropped annotation' });
             if (!this._props.addDocument?.(source)) e.preventDefault();
             de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink(source, de.complete.linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor(), { link_relationship: 'doc annotation' }); // TODODO this is where in text links get passed
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx
index 1239a038a..1394e62ba 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackedTimeline.tsx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import { computedFn } from 'mobx-utils';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc, Opt } from '../../../fields/Doc';
+import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { List } from '../../../fields/List';
 import { listSpec } from '../../../fields/Schema';
@@ -23,17 +24,17 @@ import { undoBatch, UndoManager } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { CollectionSubView } from '../collections/CollectionSubView';
 import { LightboxView } from '../LightboxView';
 import { AudioWaveform } from '../nodes/audio/AudioWaveform';
-import { DocFocusFunc, DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, DocumentViewProps, OpenWhere, StyleProviderFunc } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusFuncType, FocusViewOptions, StyleProviderFuncType } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { LabelBox } from '../nodes/LabelBox';
 import { VideoBox } from '../nodes/VideoBox';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
 import './CollectionStackedTimeline.scss';
-import { FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 
 export type CollectionStackedTimelineProps = {
     Play: () => void;
     Pause: () => void;
-    playLink: (linkDoc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => void;
+    playLink: (linkDoc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => void;
     playFrom: (seekTimeInSeconds: number, endTime?: number) => void;
     playing: () => boolean;
     thumbnails?: () => string[];
@@ -162,7 +163,7 @@ export class CollectionStackedTimeline extends CollectionSubView<CollectionStack
 
     makeDocUnfiltered = (doc: Doc) => this.childDocList?.some(item => item === doc);
 
-    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions): Promise<Opt<DocumentView>> =>
+    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions): Promise<Opt<DocumentView>> =>
         new Promise<Opt<DocumentView>>(res => {
             if (doc.hidden) options.didMove = !(doc.hidden = false);
             const findDoc = (finish: (dv: DocumentView) => void) => DocumentManager.Instance.AddViewRenderedCb(doc, dv => finish(dv));
@@ -427,8 +428,8 @@ export class CollectionStackedTimeline extends CollectionSubView<CollectionStack
                 _isTimelineLabel: true,
                 layout_borderRounding: anchorEndTime === undefined ? '100%' : undefined,
             });
-        Doc.GetProto(anchor)[startTag] = anchorStartTime;
-        Doc.GetProto(anchor)[endTag] = anchorEndTime;
+        anchor[DocData][startTag] = anchorStartTime;
+        anchor[DocData][endTag] = anchorEndTime;
         if (addAsAnnotation) {
             if (Cast(dataDoc[fieldKey], listSpec(Doc), null)) {
                 Cast(dataDoc[fieldKey], listSpec(Doc), []).push(anchor);
@@ -579,7 +580,7 @@ export class CollectionStackedTimeline extends CollectionSubView<CollectionStack
                             const timespan = Math.max(0, Math.min(end - this.clipStart, this.clipEnd)) - Math.max(0, start - this.clipStart);
                             const width = (timespan / this.clipDuration) * this.timelineContentWidth;
                             const height = this._props.PanelHeight() / maxLevel;
-                            return this._props.Document.hideAnchors ? null : (
+                            return this.Document.hideAnchors ? null : (
                                 <div
                                     className={'collectionStackedTimeline-marker-timeline'}
                                     key={d.anchor[Id]}
@@ -691,8 +692,8 @@ interface StackedTimelineAnchorProps {
     width: number;
     height: number;
     toTimeline: (screen_delta: number, width: number) => number;
-    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFunc;
-    playLink: (linkDoc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => void;
+    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFuncType;
+    playLink: (linkDoc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => void;
     setTime: (time: number) => void;
     startTag: string;
     endTag: string;
@@ -701,7 +702,7 @@ interface StackedTimelineAnchorProps {
     isDocumentActive?: () => boolean | undefined;
     ScreenToLocalTransform: () => Transform;
     _timeline: HTMLDivElement | null;
-    focus: DocFocusFunc;
+    focus: FocusFuncType;
     currentTimecode: () => number;
     isSelected: () => boolean;
     stackedTimeline: CollectionStackedTimeline;
@@ -810,7 +811,7 @@ class StackedTimelineAnchor extends ObservableReactComponent<StackedTimelineAnch
     // renders anchor LabelBox
     renderInner = computedFn(function (this: StackedTimelineAnchor, mark: Doc, script: undefined | (() => ScriptField), doublescript: undefined | (() => ScriptField), screenXf: () => Transform, width: () => number, height: () => number) {
         const anchor = observable({ view: undefined as Opt<DocumentView> | null });
-        const focusFunc = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions): number | undefined => {
+        const focusFunc = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions): number | undefined => {
             this._props.playLink(mark, options);
             return undefined;
         };
@@ -842,8 +843,8 @@ class StackedTimelineAnchor extends ObservableReactComponent<StackedTimelineAnch
                     searchFilterDocs={returnEmptyDoclist}
                     childFilters={returnEmptyFilter}
                     childFiltersByRanges={returnEmptyFilter}
-                    onClick={script}
-                    onDoubleClick={this._props.layoutDoc.autoPlayAnchors ? undefined : doublescript}
+                    onClickScript={script}
+                    onDoubleClickScript={this._props.layoutDoc.autoPlayAnchors ? undefined : doublescript}
                     ignoreAutoHeight={false}
                     hideResizeHandles={true}
                     bringToFront={emptyFunction}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
index 9384b7088..0da32a9e0 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionStackingView.tsx
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
 import { EditableView } from '../EditableView';
 import { LightboxView } from '../LightboxView';
 import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentView } from '../nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, DocumentViewProps } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
-import { FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { CollectionMasonryViewFieldRow } from './CollectionMasonryViewFieldRow';
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
 
     componentDidMount() {
         super.componentDidMount?.();
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
 
         // reset section headers when a new filter is inputted
         this._pivotFieldDisposer = reaction(
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     };
 
     // let's dive in and get the actual document we want to drag/move around
-    focusDocument = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focusDocument = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         Doc.BrushDoc(doc);
 
         const found = this._mainCont && Array.from(this._mainCont.getElementsByClassName('documentView-node')).find((node: any) => node.id === doc[Id]);
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
             if (layout_fieldKey !== 'layout' && fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey] instanceof Doc) {
                 newDoc[layout_fieldKey] = fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey];
             }
-            Doc.GetProto(newDoc).text = undefined;
+            newDoc[DocData].text = undefined;
             FormattedTextBox.SetSelectOnLoad(newDoc);
             return this.addDocument?.(newDoc);
         }
@@ -324,13 +324,13 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
                 PanelWidth={panelWidth}
                 PanelHeight={panelHeight}
-                pointerEvents={this.DocumentView?.()._props.onClick?.() ? returnNone : undefined} // if the stack has an onClick, then we don't want the contents to be interactive (see CollectionPileView)
+                pointerEvents={this.DocumentView?.()._props.onClickScript?.() ? returnNone : undefined} // if the stack has an onClick, then we don't want the contents to be interactive (see CollectionPileView)
                 styleProvider={this.styleProvider}
                 containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
                 layout_fitWidth={this.childFitWidth}
                 isContentActive={doc.onClick ? this.isChildButtonContentActive : this.isChildContentActive}
                 onKey={this.onKeyDown}
-                onBrowseClick={this._props.onBrowseClick}
+                onBrowseClickScript={this._props.onBrowseClickScript}
                 isDocumentActive={this.isContentActive}
                 LayoutTemplate={this._props.childLayoutTemplate}
                 LayoutTemplateString={this._props.childLayoutString}
@@ -341,8 +341,8 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 rootSelected={this.rootSelected}
                 layout_showTitle={this._props.childlayout_showTitle}
                 dragAction={(this.layoutDoc.childDragAction ?? this._props.childDragAction) as dropActionType}
-                onClick={this.onChildClickHandler}
-                onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
+                onClickScript={this.onChildClickHandler}
+                onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
                 ScreenToLocalTransform={stackedDocTransform}
                 focus={this.focusDocument}
                 childFilters={this.childDocFilters}
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 }
                 return true;
             }
-        } else if (de.complete.linkDragData?.dragDocument.embedContainer === this._props.Document && de.complete.linkDragData?.linkDragView?.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView) {
+        } else if (de.complete.linkDragData?.dragDocument.embedContainer === this.Document && de.complete.linkDragData?.linkDragView?.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView) {
             const source = Docs.Create.TextDocument('', { _width: 200, _height: 75, _layout_fitWidth: true, title: 'dropped annotation' });
             if (!this._props.addDocument?.(source)) e.preventDefault();
             de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink(source, de.complete.linkDragData.linkSourceGetAnchor(), { link_relationship: 'doc annotation' }); // TODODO this is where in text links get passed
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 addDocument={this.addDocument}
                 chromeHidden={this.chromeHidden}
                 colHeaderData={this.colHeaderData}
-                Document={this._props.Document}
+                Document={this.Document}
                 TemplateDataDocument={this._props.TemplateDataDocument}
                 renderChildren={this.children}
                 columnWidth={this.columnWidth}
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         return (
             <CollectionMasonryViewFieldRow
                 showHandle={first}
-                Document={this._props.Document}
+                Document={this.Document}
                 chromeHidden={this.chromeHidden}
                 pivotField={this.pivotField}
                 unobserveHeight={ref => this.refList.splice(this.refList.indexOf(ref), 1)}
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                     addDocument={this._props.addDocument}
                     moveDocument={this._props.moveDocument}
                     addDocTab={this._props.addDocTab}
-                    onBrowseClick={this._props.onBrowseClick}
+                    onBrowseClickScript={this._props.onBrowseClickScript}
                     pinToPres={emptyFunction}
                     rootSelected={this.rootSelected}
                     removeDocument={this._props.removeDocument}
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ export class CollectionStackingView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                         onWheel={e => this.isContentActive() && e.stopPropagation()}>
                         {this.renderedSections}
                         {!this.showAddAGroup ? null : (
-                            <div key={`${this._props.Document[Id]}-addGroup`} className="collectionStackingView-addGroupButton" style={{ width: !this.isStackingView ? '100%' : this.columnWidth / this.numGroupColumns - 10, marginTop: 10 }}>
+                            <div key={`${this.Document[Id]}-addGroup`} className="collectionStackingView-addGroupButton" style={{ width: !this.isStackingView ? '100%' : this.columnWidth / this.numGroupColumns - 10, marginTop: 10 }}>
                                 <EditableView {...editableViewProps} />
                             </div>
                         )}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
index d7c42a975..0aa74aaba 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionSubView.tsx
@@ -21,18 +21,17 @@ import { ImageUtils } from '../../util/Import & Export/ImageUtils';
 import { SelectionManager } from '../../util/SelectionManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../util/SnappingManager';
 import { UndoManager, undoBatch } from '../../util/UndoManager';
-import { ViewBoxBaseComponent, ViewBoxBaseProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxBaseComponent } from '../DocComponent';
 import { LoadingBox } from '../nodes/LoadingBox';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { CollectionView, CollectionViewProps } from './CollectionView';
-import { returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 
 export interface SubCollectionViewProps extends CollectionViewProps {
     isAnyChildContentActive: () => boolean;
 }
 
 export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
-    class CollectionSubView extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<X & SubCollectionViewProps & ViewBoxBaseProps>() {
+    class CollectionSubView extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<X & SubCollectionViewProps>() {
         private dropDisposer?: DragManager.DragDropDisposer;
         private gestureDisposer?: GestureUtils.GestureEventDisposer;
         protected _mainCont?: HTMLDivElement;
@@ -63,20 +62,16 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
         }
 
         get dataDoc() {
-            return this._props.TemplateDataDocument instanceof Doc && this._props.Document.isTemplateForField
-                ? Doc.GetProto(this._props.TemplateDataDocument)
-                : this._props.Document.resolvedDataDoc
-                  ? this._props.Document
-                  : Doc.GetProto(this._props.Document); // if the layout document has a resolvedDataDoc, then we don't want to get its parent which would be the unexpanded template
+            return this._props.TemplateDataDocument instanceof Doc && this.Document.isTemplateForField ? Doc.GetProto(this._props.TemplateDataDocument) : this.Document.resolvedDataDoc ? this.Document : Doc.GetProto(this.Document); // if the layout document has a resolvedDataDoc, then we don't want to get its parent which would be the unexpanded template
         }
 
         get childContainerViewPath() {
-            return this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
+            return this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath;
         }
         // this returns whether either the collection is selected, or the template that it is part of is selected
         rootSelected = () => this._props.isSelected() || BoolCast(this._props.TemplateDataDocument && this._props.rootSelected?.());
 
-        // The data field for rendering this collection will be on the this._props.Document unless we're rendering a template in which case we try to use props.TemplateDataDocument.
+        // The data field for rendering this collection will be on the this.Document unless we're rendering a template in which case we try to use props.TemplateDataDocument.
         // When a document has a TemplateDataDoc but it's not a template, then it contains its own rendering data, but needs to pass the TemplateDataDoc through
         // to its children which may be templates.
         // If 'annotationField' is specified, then all children exist on that field of the extension document, otherwise, they exist directly on the data document under 'fieldKey'
@@ -97,14 +92,14 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
         @computed get childDocList() {
             return Cast(this.dataField, listSpec(Doc));
         }
-        collectionFilters = () => this._focusFilters ?? StrListCast(this._props.Document._childFilters);
-        collectionRangeDocFilters = () => this._focusRangeFilters ?? Cast(this._props.Document._childFiltersByRanges, listSpec('string'), []);
+        collectionFilters = () => this._focusFilters ?? StrListCast(this.Document._childFilters);
+        collectionRangeDocFilters = () => this._focusRangeFilters ?? Cast(this.Document._childFiltersByRanges, listSpec('string'), []);
         // child filters apply to the descendants of the documents in this collection
         childDocFilters = () => [...(this._props.childFilters?.().filter(f => Utils.IsRecursiveFilter(f)) || []), ...this.collectionFilters()];
         // unrecursive filters apply to the documents in the collection, but no their children.  See Utils.noRecursionHack
         unrecursiveDocFilters = () => [...(this._props.childFilters?.().filter(f => !Utils.IsRecursiveFilter(f)) || [])];
         childDocRangeFilters = () => [...(this._props.childFiltersByRanges?.() || []), ...this.collectionRangeDocFilters()];
-        searchFilterDocs = () => this._props.searchFilterDocs?.() ?? DocListCast(this._props.Document._searchFilterDocs);
+        searchFilterDocs = () => this._props.searchFilterDocs?.() ?? DocListCast(this.Document._searchFilterDocs);
         @computed.struct get childDocs() {
             TraceMobx();
             let rawdocs: (Doc | Promise<Doc>)[] = [];
@@ -127,7 +122,7 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
             const childDocFilters = this.childDocFilters();
             const childFiltersByRanges = this.childDocRangeFilters();
             const searchDocs = this.searchFilterDocs();
-            if (this._props.Document.dontRegisterView || (!childDocFilters.length && !this.unrecursiveDocFilters().length && !childFiltersByRanges.length && !searchDocs.length)) {
+            if (this.Document.dontRegisterView || (!childDocFilters.length && !this.unrecursiveDocFilters().length && !childFiltersByRanges.length && !searchDocs.length)) {
                 return childDocs.filter(cd => !cd.cookies); // remove any documents that require a cookie if there are no filters to provide one
             }
 
@@ -136,9 +131,9 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
                 // dragging facets
                 const dragged = this._props.childFilters?.().some(f => f.includes(Utils.noDragDocsFilter));
                 if (dragged && SnappingManager.CanEmbed && DragManager.docsBeingDragged.includes(d)) return false;
-                let notFiltered = d.z || Doc.IsSystem(d) || DocUtils.FilterDocs([d], this.unrecursiveDocFilters(), childFiltersByRanges, this._props.Document).length > 0;
+                let notFiltered = d.z || Doc.IsSystem(d) || DocUtils.FilterDocs([d], this.unrecursiveDocFilters(), childFiltersByRanges, this.Document).length > 0;
                 if (notFiltered) {
-                    notFiltered = (!searchDocs.length || searchDocs.includes(d)) && DocUtils.FilterDocs([d], childDocFilters, childFiltersByRanges, this._props.Document).length > 0;
+                    notFiltered = (!searchDocs.length || searchDocs.includes(d)) && DocUtils.FilterDocs([d], childDocFilters, childFiltersByRanges, this.Document).length > 0;
                     const fieldKey = Doc.LayoutFieldKey(d);
                     const annos = !Field.toString(Doc.LayoutField(d) as Field).includes(CollectionView.name);
                     const data = d[annos ? fieldKey + '_annotations' : fieldKey];
@@ -171,7 +166,7 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
         @action
         protected async setCursorPosition(position: [number, number]) {
             let ind;
-            const doc = this._props.Document;
+            const doc = this.Document;
             const id = Doc.UserDoc()[Id];
             const email = Doc.CurrentUserEmail;
             const pos = { x: position[0], y: position[1] };
@@ -207,7 +202,7 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
                 const dropAction = this.layoutDoc.dropAction as dropActionType;
                 // if the dropEvent's dragAction is, say 'embed', but we're just dragging within a collection, we may not actually want to make an embedding.
                 // so we check if our collection has a dropAction set on it and if so, we use that instead.
-                if (dropAction && !de.complete.docDragData.draggedDocuments.some(d => d.embedContainer === this._props.Document && this.childDocs.includes(d))) {
+                if (dropAction && !de.complete.docDragData.draggedDocuments.some(d => d.embedContainer === this.Document && this.childDocs.includes(d))) {
                     de.complete.docDragData.dropAction = dropAction;
                 }
                 e.stopPropagation();
@@ -471,7 +466,7 @@ export function CollectionSubView<X>(moreProps?: X) {
             }
             if (generatedDocuments.length) {
                 // Creating a dash document
-                const isFreeformView = this._props.Document._type_collection === CollectionViewType.Freeform;
+                const isFreeformView = this.Document._type_collection === CollectionViewType.Freeform;
                 const set = !isFreeformView
                     ? generatedDocuments
                     : generatedDocuments.length > 1
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTimeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTimeView.tsx
index 7036ec41c..ee5147428 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTimeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTimeView.tsx
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ import { ScriptingGlobals } from '../../util/ScriptingGlobals';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
 import { EditableView } from '../EditableView';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { PresBox } from '../nodes/trails';
 import { CollectionSubView } from './CollectionSubView';
 import './CollectionTimeView.scss';
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ export class CollectionTimeView extends CollectionSubView() {
     }
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         runInAction(() => {
             this._childClickedScript = ScriptField.MakeScript('openInLightbox(this)', { this: Doc.name });
             this._viewDefDivClick = ScriptField.MakeScript('pivotColumnClick(this,payload)', { payload: 'any' });
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ export class CollectionTimeView extends CollectionSubView() {
     };
 
     @action
-    scrollPreview = (docView: DocumentView, anchor: Doc, focusSpeed: number, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    scrollPreview = (docView: DocumentView, anchor: Doc, focusSpeed: number, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         // if in preview, then override document's fields with view spec
         this._focusFilters = StrListCast(anchor.config_docFilters);
         this._focusRangeFilters = StrListCast(anchor.config_docRangeFilters);
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
index 76b934802..4696d7948 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionTreeView.tsx
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ export class CollectionTreeView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collectionTree
                 {!(this.Document instanceof Doc) || !this.treeChildren ? null : this.Document.treeView_HasOverlay ? (
                     <CollectionFreeFormView
                         {...this._props}
-                        setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                        setContentViewBox={emptyFunction}
                         NativeWidth={returnZero}
                         NativeHeight={returnZero}
                         pointerEvents={this._props.isContentActive() && SnappingManager.IsDragging ? returnAll : returnNone}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
index 7c9ef9f48..26ff5cc06 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/CollectionView.tsx
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { dropActionType } from '../../util/DragManager';
 import { ImageUtils } from '../../util/Import & Export/ImageUtils';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../DocComponent';
 import { OpenWhere } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { CollectionCalendarView } from './CollectionCalendarView';
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import { CollectionLinearView } from './collectionLinear';
 import { CollectionMulticolumnView } from './collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView';
 import { CollectionMultirowView } from './collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView';
 import { CollectionSchemaView } from './collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView';
-interface CollectionViewProps_ extends FieldViewProps {
+export interface CollectionViewProps extends React.PropsWithChildren<FieldViewProps> {
     isAnnotationOverlay?: boolean; // is the collection an annotation overlay (eg an overlay on an image/video/etc)
     isAnnotationOverlayScrollable?: boolean; // whether the annotation overlay can be vertically scrolled (just for tree views, currently)
     layoutEngine?: () => string;
@@ -63,9 +63,8 @@ interface CollectionViewProps_ extends FieldViewProps {
     RemFromMap?: (treeViewDoc: Doc, index: number[]) => void;
     hierarchyIndex?: number[]; // hierarchical index of a document up to the rendering root (primarily used for tree views)
 }
-export interface CollectionViewProps extends React.PropsWithChildren<CollectionViewProps_> {}
 @observer
-export class CollectionView extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & CollectionViewProps>() {
+export class CollectionView extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<CollectionViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     public static LayoutString(fieldStr: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(CollectionView, fieldStr);
     }
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
index f00e42360..da15f8dc5 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/TabDocView.tsx
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ import { LightboxView } from '../LightboxView';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider, StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { Colors } from '../global/globalEnums';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod, returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod, returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from '../nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { DashFieldView } from '../nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView';
 import { PinProps, PresBox, PresMovement } from '../nodes/trails';
@@ -37,7 +38,6 @@ import { CollectionDockingView } from './CollectionDockingView';
 import { CollectionView } from './CollectionView';
 import './TabDocView.scss';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from './collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView';
-import { FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
 
 interface TabDocViewProps {
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ export class TabDocView extends ObservableReactComponent<TabDocViewProps> {
             titleEle.onchange = (e: any) => {
                 undoable(() => {
                     titleEle.size = e.currentTarget.value.length + 3;
-                    Doc.GetProto(doc).title = e.currentTarget.value;
+                    doc[DocData].title = e.currentTarget.value;
                 }, 'edit tab title')();
             };
 
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ export class TabDocView extends ObservableReactComponent<TabDocViewProps> {
         return tab !== undefined;
     };
     @action
-    focusFunc = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focusFunc = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (!this.tab.header.parent._activeContentItem || this.tab.header.parent._activeContentItem !== this.tab.contentItem) {
             this.tab.header.parent.setActiveContentItem(this.tab.contentItem); // glr: Panning does not work when this is set - (this line is for trying to make a tab that is not topmost become topmost)
         }
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ export class TabDocView extends ObservableReactComponent<TabDocViewProps> {
                     hideTitle={this._props.keyValue}
                     Document={this._document}
                     TemplateDataDocument={!Doc.AreProtosEqual(this._document[DocData], this._document) ? this._document[DocData] : undefined}
-                    onBrowseClick={DocumentView.exploreMode}
+                    onBrowseClickScript={DocumentView.exploreMode}
                     waitForDoubleClickToClick={this.waitForDoubleClick}
                     isContentActive={this.isContentActive}
                     isDocumentActive={returnFalse}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
index 9f40edee1..38a2fe978 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/TreeView.tsx
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ import { UndoManager, undoBatch, undoable } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { EditableView } from '../EditableView';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
-import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere, StyleProviderFunc } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
-import { FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
+import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FieldViewProps, StyleProviderFuncType } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from '../nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { RichTextMenu } from '../nodes/formattedText/RichTextMenu';
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export interface TreeViewProps {
     ScreenToLocalTransform: () => Transform;
     contextMenuItems?: { script: ScriptField; filter: ScriptField; icon: string; label: string }[];
     dontRegisterView?: boolean;
-    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFunc | undefined;
+    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFuncType | undefined;
     treeViewHideHeaderFields: () => boolean;
     renderedIds: string[]; // list of document ids rendered used to avoid unending expansion of items in a cycle
     onCheckedClick?: () => ScriptField;
@@ -367,8 +367,9 @@ export class TreeView extends ObservableReactComponent<TreeViewProps> {
             _width: 1000,
             _height: 10,
         });
-        Doc.GetProto(bullet).title = ComputedField.MakeFunction('this.text?.Text');
-        Doc.GetProto(bullet).data = new List<Doc>([]);
+        const bulletData = bullet[DocData];
+        bulletData.title = ComputedField.MakeFunction('this.text?.Text');
+        bulletData.data = new List<Doc>([]);
         DocumentManager.Instance.AddViewRenderedCb(bullet, dv => dv.ComponentView?.setFocus?.());
 
         return bullet;
@@ -982,8 +983,8 @@ export class TreeView extends ObservableReactComponent<TreeViewProps> {
                 addDocument={undefined}
                 addDocTab={this._props.addDocTab}
                 pinToPres={this.treeView._props.pinToPres}
-                onClick={this.onChildClick}
-                onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClick}
+                onClickScript={this.onChildClick}
+                onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClick}
                 dragAction={this._props.dragAction}
                 moveDocument={this.move}
                 removeDocument={this._props.removeDoc}
@@ -1076,7 +1077,7 @@ export class TreeView extends ObservableReactComponent<TreeViewProps> {
                     fitContentsToBox={returnTrue}
                     hideDecorationTitle={this.treeView.outlineMode}
                     hideResizeHandles={this.treeView.outlineMode}
-                    onClick={this.onChildClick}
+                    onClickScript={this.onChildClick}
                     focus={this.refocus}
                     onKey={this.onKeyDown}
                     hideLinkButton={BoolCast(this.treeView.Document.childHideLinkButton)}
@@ -1209,7 +1210,7 @@ export class TreeView extends ObservableReactComponent<TreeViewProps> {
         move: DragManager.MoveFunction,
         dragAction: dropActionType,
         addDocTab: (doc: Doc, where: OpenWhere) => boolean,
-        styleProvider: undefined | StyleProviderFunc,
+        styleProvider: undefined | StyleProviderFuncType,
         screenToLocalXf: () => Transform,
         isContentActive: (outsideReaction?: boolean) => boolean,
         panelWidth: () => number,
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.tsx
index 5204633ea..f0a31a8c6 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormLinkView.tsx
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormLinkView extends ObservableReactComponent<Collect
                 LinkManager.currentLink = this._props.LinkDocs[0];
                 this.toggleProperties();
                 // OverlayView.Instance.addElement(
-                //     <LinkEditor sourceDoc={this._props.A._props.Document} linkDoc={this._props.LinkDocs[0]}
+                //     <LinkEditor sourceDoc={this._props.A.Document} linkDoc={this._props.LinkDocs[0]}
                 //         showLinks={action(() => { })}
                 //     />, { x: 300, y: 300 });
             })
@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormLinkView extends ObservableReactComponent<Collect
         const atop = this.visibleY(adiv);
         const btop = this.visibleY(bdiv);
         if (!a.width || !b.width) return undefined;
-        const aDocBounds = (A._props as any).DocumentView?.().getBounds() || { left: 0, right: 0, top: 0, bottom: 0 };
-        const bDocBounds = (B._props as any).DocumentView?.().getBounds() || { left: 0, right: 0, top: 0, bottom: 0 };
+        const aDocBounds = (A._props as any).DocumentView?.().getBounds || { left: 0, right: 0, top: 0, bottom: 0 };
+        const bDocBounds = (B._props as any).DocumentView?.().getBounds || { left: 0, right: 0, top: 0, bottom: 0 };
         const aleft = this.visibleX(adiv);
         const bleft = this.visibleX(bdiv);
         const aclipped = aleft !== a.left || atop !== a.top;
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
index c4358747b..7203041e0 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Bezier } from 'bezier-js';
 import { Colors } from 'browndash-components';
-import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, makeObservable, observable, reaction, runInAction, toJS } from 'mobx';
+import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, makeObservable, observable, reaction, runInAction } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import { computedFn } from 'mobx-utils';
 import * as React from 'react';
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ import { ActiveInkWidth, InkingStroke, SetActiveInkColor, SetActiveInkWidth } fr
 import { LightboxView } from '../../LightboxView';
 import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentView, CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapper } from '../../nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView';
 import { SchemaCSVPopUp } from '../../nodes/DataVizBox/SchemaCSVPopUp';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, DocumentViewProps, OpenWhere } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
-import { FieldViewProps } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldViewProps } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from '../../nodes/trails/PresBox';
 import { CreateImage } from '../../nodes/WebBoxRenderer';
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ import { CollectionFreeFormRemoteCursors } from './CollectionFreeFormRemoteCurso
 import './CollectionFreeFormView.scss';
 import { MarqueeView } from './MarqueeView';
 
-export type collectionFreeformViewProps = {
+export interface collectionFreeformViewProps {
     NativeWidth?: () => number;
     NativeHeight?: () => number;
     originTopLeft?: boolean;
@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ export type collectionFreeformViewProps = {
     noOverlay?: boolean; // used to suppress docs in the overlay (z) layer (ie, for minimap since overlay doesn't scale)
     engineProps?: any;
     getScrollHeight?: () => number | undefined;
-};
+}
 
 @observer
 export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collectionFreeformViewProps>>() {
     public get displayName() {
-        return 'CollectionFreeFormView(' + this._props.Document.title?.toString() + ')';
+        return 'CollectionFreeFormView(' + this.Document.title?.toString() + ')';
     } // this makes mobx trace() statements more descriptive
 
     constructor(props: any) {
@@ -180,12 +180,10 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     }
 
     public static gotoKeyframe(timer: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined, docs: Doc[], duration: number) {
-        if (timer) clearTimeout(timer);
-        return DocumentView.SetViewTransition(docs, 'all', duration, undefined, true);
+        return DocumentView.SetViewTransition(docs, 'all', duration, timer, undefined, true);
     }
     public static updateKeyframe(timer: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined, docs: Doc[], time: number) {
-        if (timer) clearTimeout(timer);
-        const newTimer = DocumentView.SetViewTransition(docs, 'all', 1000, undefined, true);
+        const newTimer = DocumentView.SetViewTransition(docs, 'all', 1000, timer, undefined, true);
         const timecode = Math.round(time);
         docs.forEach(doc => {
             CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.animFields.forEach(val => {
@@ -223,7 +221,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     @observable _keyframeEditing = false;
     @action setKeyFrameEditing = (set: boolean) => (this._keyframeEditing = set);
     getKeyFrameEditing = () => this._keyframeEditing;
-    onBrowseClickHandler = () => this._props.onBrowseClick?.() || ScriptCast(this.layoutDoc.onBrowseClick);
+    onBrowseClickHandler = () => this._props.onBrowseClickScript?.() || ScriptCast(this.layoutDoc.onBrowseClick);
     onChildClickHandler = () => this._props.childClickScript || ScriptCast(this.Document.onChildClick);
     onChildDoubleClickHandler = () => this._props.childDoubleClickScript || ScriptCast(this.Document.onChildDoubleClick);
     elementFunc = () => this._layoutElements;
@@ -288,14 +286,14 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         return dispTime === -1 || curTime === -1 || (curTime - dispTime >= -1e-4 && curTime <= endTime);
     }
 
-    groupFocus = (anchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    groupFocus = (anchor: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         options.docTransform = new Transform(-NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panXFieldKey]) + NumCast(anchor.x), -NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.panYFieldKey]) + NumCast(anchor.y), 1);
         const res = this._props.focus(this.Document, options);
         options.docTransform = undefined;
         return res;
     };
 
-    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (this._lightboxDoc) return;
         if (anchor === this.Document) {
             if (options.willZoomCentered && options.zoomScale) {
@@ -321,7 +319,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         }
     };
 
-    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions): Promise<Opt<DocumentView>> =>
+    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions): Promise<Opt<DocumentView>> =>
         new Promise<Opt<DocumentView>>(res => {
             if (doc.hidden && this._lightboxDoc !== doc) options.didMove = !(doc.hidden = false);
             const findDoc = (finish: (dv: DocumentView) => void) => DocumentManager.Instance.AddViewRenderedCb(doc, dv => finish(dv));
@@ -467,7 +465,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         return this.childLayoutPairs
             .map(pair => pair.layout)
             .reduce((cluster, cd) => {
-                const grouping = this._props.Document._freeform_useClusters ? NumCast(cd.layout_cluster, -1) : NumCast(cd.group, -1);
+                const grouping = this.Document._freeform_useClusters ? NumCast(cd.layout_cluster, -1) : NumCast(cd.group, -1);
                 if (grouping !== -1) {
                     const layoutDoc = Doc.Layout(cd);
                     const cx = NumCast(cd.x) - this._clusterDistance / 2;
@@ -484,9 +482,9 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         if (cluster !== -1) {
             const ptsParent = e;
             if (ptsParent) {
-                const eles = this.childLayoutPairs.map(pair => pair.layout).filter(cd => (this._props.Document._freeform_useClusters ? NumCast(cd.layout_cluster) : NumCast(cd.group, -1)) === cluster);
+                const eles = this.childLayoutPairs.map(pair => pair.layout).filter(cd => (this.Document._freeform_useClusters ? NumCast(cd.layout_cluster) : NumCast(cd.group, -1)) === cluster);
                 const clusterDocs = eles.map(ele => DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(ele, this.DocumentView?.())!);
-                const { left, top } = clusterDocs[0].getBounds() || { left: 0, top: 0 };
+                const { left, top } = clusterDocs[0].getBounds || { left: 0, top: 0 };
                 const de = new DragManager.DocumentDragData(eles, e.ctrlKey || e.altKey ? 'embed' : undefined);
                 de.moveDocument = this._props.moveDocument;
                 de.offset = this.screenToFreeformContentsXf.transformDirection(ptsParent.clientX - left, ptsParent.clientY - top);
@@ -506,7 +504,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
 
     @action
     updateClusters(_freeform_useClusters: boolean) {
-        this._props.Document._freeform_useClusters = _freeform_useClusters;
+        this.Document._freeform_useClusters = _freeform_useClusters;
         this._clusterSets.length = 0;
         this.childLayoutPairs.map(pair => pair.layout).map(c => this.updateCluster(c));
     }
@@ -514,7 +512,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     @action
     updateClusterDocs(docs: Doc[]) {
         const childLayouts = this.childLayoutPairs.map(pair => pair.layout);
-        if (this._props.Document._freeform_useClusters) {
+        if (this.Document._freeform_useClusters) {
             const docFirst = docs[0];
             docs.map(doc => this._clusterSets.map(set => Doc.IndexOf(doc, set) !== -1 && set.splice(Doc.IndexOf(doc, set), 1)));
             const preferredInd = NumCast(docFirst.layout_cluster);
@@ -557,7 +555,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     @action
     updateCluster = (doc: Doc) => {
         const childLayouts = this.childLayoutPairs.map(pair => pair.layout);
-        if (this._props.Document._freeform_useClusters) {
+        if (this.Document._freeform_useClusters) {
             this._clusterSets.forEach(set => Doc.IndexOf(doc, set) !== -1 && set.splice(Doc.IndexOf(doc, set), 1));
             const preferredInd = NumCast(doc.layout_cluster);
             doc.layout_cluster = -1;
@@ -616,7 +614,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     trySelectCluster = (addToSel: boolean) => {
         if (this._hitCluster !== -1) {
             !addToSel && SelectionManager.DeselectAll();
-            const eles = this.childLayoutPairs.map(pair => pair.layout).filter(cd => (this._props.Document._freeform_useClusters ? NumCast(cd.layout_cluster) : NumCast(cd.group, -1)) === this._hitCluster);
+            const eles = this.childLayoutPairs.map(pair => pair.layout).filter(cd => (this.Document._freeform_useClusters ? NumCast(cd.layout_cluster) : NumCast(cd.group, -1)) === this._hitCluster);
             this.selectDocuments(eles);
             return true;
         }
@@ -810,7 +808,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         return this.childDocs
             .map(doc => DocumentManager.Instance.getDocumentView(doc, this.DocumentView?.()))
             .filter(inkView => inkView?.ComponentView instanceof InkingStroke)
-            .map(inkView => ({ inkViewBounds: inkView!.getBounds(), inkStroke: inkView!.ComponentView as InkingStroke, inkView: inkView! }))
+            .map(inkView => ({ inkViewBounds: inkView!.getBounds, inkStroke: inkView!.ComponentView as InkingStroke, inkView: inkView! }))
             .filter(
                 ({ inkViewBounds }) =>
                     inkViewBounds && // bounding box of eraser segment and ink stroke overlap
@@ -959,8 +957,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         const localTransform = invTransform.scaleAbout(deltaScale, x, y);
         if (localTransform.Scale >= 0.05 || localTransform.Scale > this.zoomScaling()) {
             const safeScale = Math.min(Math.max(0.05, localTransform.Scale), 20);
-            this._props.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] = Math.abs(safeScale);
-            this.setPan(-localTransform.TranslateX / safeScale, (this._props.originTopLeft ? undefined : NumCast(this._props.Document.layout_scrollTop) * safeScale) || -localTransform.TranslateY / safeScale);
+            this.Document[this.scaleFieldKey] = Math.abs(safeScale);
+            this.setPan(-localTransform.TranslateX / safeScale, (this._props.originTopLeft ? undefined : NumCast(this.Document.layout_scrollTop) * safeScale) || -localTransform.TranslateY / safeScale);
         }
     };
 
@@ -968,7 +966,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     onPointerWheel = (e: React.WheelEvent): void => {
         if (this.Document.isGroup || !this.isContentActive()) return; // group style collections neither pan nor zoom
         PresBox.Instance?.pauseAutoPres();
-        if (this.layoutDoc._Transform || this._props.Document.treeView_OutlineMode === TreeViewType.outline) return;
+        if (this.layoutDoc._Transform || this.Document.treeView_OutlineMode === TreeViewType.outline) return;
         e.stopPropagation();
         const docHeight = NumCast(this.Document[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(this.Document) + '_nativeHeight'], this.nativeHeight);
         const scrollable = this.isAnnotationOverlay && NumCast(this.layoutDoc[this.scaleFieldKey], 1) === 1 && docHeight > this._props.PanelHeight() / this.nativeDimScaling + 1e-4;
@@ -989,7 +987,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
             case freeformScrollMode.Zoom:
                 if ((e.ctrlKey || !scrollable) && this._props.isContentActive()) {
                     this.zoom(e.clientX, e.clientY, Math.max(-1, Math.min(1, e.deltaY))); // if (!this._props.isAnnotationOverlay) // bcz: do we want to zoom in on images/videos/etc?
-                    e.preventDefault();
+                    // e.preventDefault();
                 }
                 break;
         }
@@ -1182,13 +1180,13 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
             if (layout_fieldKey !== 'layout' && fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey] instanceof Doc) {
                 newDoc[layout_fieldKey] = fieldProps.Document[layout_fieldKey];
             }
-            Doc.GetProto(newDoc).text = undefined;
+            newDoc[DocData].text = undefined;
             FormattedTextBox.SetSelectOnLoad(newDoc);
             return this.addDocument?.(newDoc);
         }
     };
     @computed get childPointerEvents() {
-        const engine = this._props.layoutEngine?.() || StrCast(this._props.Document._layoutEngine);
+        const engine = this._props.layoutEngine?.() || StrCast(this.Document._layoutEngine);
         return SnappingManager.IsResizing
             ? 'none'
             : this._props.childPointerEvents?.() ??
@@ -1210,6 +1208,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 {...OmitKeys(entry, ['replica', 'pair']).omit}
                 key={childLayout[Id] + (entry.replica || '')}
                 Document={childLayout}
+                containerViewPath={this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath}
+                styleProvider={this.clusterStyleProvider}
                 TemplateDataDocument={childData}
                 dragStarting={this.dragStarting}
                 dragEnding={this.dragEnding}
@@ -1223,10 +1223,10 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 LayoutTemplateString={childLayout.z ? undefined : this._props.childLayoutString}
                 rootSelected={childData ? this.rootSelected : returnFalse}
                 waitForDoubleClickToClick={this._props.waitForDoubleClickToClick}
-                onClick={this.onChildClickHandler}
+                onClickScript={this.onChildClickHandler}
                 onKey={this.onKeyDown}
-                onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
-                onBrowseClick={this.onBrowseClickHandler}
+                onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
+                onBrowseClickScript={this.onBrowseClickHandler}
                 ScreenToLocalTransform={childLayout.z ? this.ScreenToLocalBoxXf : this.ScreenToContentsXf}
                 PanelWidth={childLayout[Width]}
                 PanelHeight={childLayout[Height]}
@@ -1242,8 +1242,6 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                 moveDocument={this._props.moveDocument}
                 pinToPres={this._props.pinToPres}
                 whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this._props.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
-                containerViewPath={this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath}
-                styleProvider={this.clusterStyleProvider}
                 dragAction={(this.Document.childDragAction ?? this._props.childDragAction) as dropActionType}
                 bringToFront={this.bringToFront}
                 layout_showTitle={this._props.childlayout_showTitle}
@@ -1322,7 +1320,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     }
 
     onViewDefDivClick = (e: React.MouseEvent, payload: any) => {
-        (this._props.viewDefDivClick || ScriptCast(this._props.Document.onViewDefDivClick))?.script.run({ this: this._props.Document, payload });
+        (this._props.viewDefDivClick || ScriptCast(this.Document.onViewDefDivClick))?.script.run({ this: this.Document, payload });
         e.stopPropagation();
     };
 
@@ -1377,7 +1375,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         poolData: Map<string, PoolData>,
         engine: (poolData: Map<string, PoolData>, pivotDoc: Doc, childPairs: { layout: Doc; data?: Doc }[], panelDim: number[], viewDefsToJSX: (views: ViewDefBounds[]) => ViewDefResult[], engineProps: any) => ViewDefResult[]
     ) {
-        return engine(poolData, this._props.Document, this.childLayoutPairs, [this._props.PanelWidth(), this._props.PanelHeight()], this.viewDefsToJSX, this._props.engineProps);
+        return engine(poolData, this.Document, this.childLayoutPairs, [this._props.PanelWidth(), this._props.PanelHeight()], this.viewDefsToJSX, this._props.engineProps);
     }
 
     doFreeformLayout(poolData: Map<string, PoolData>) {
@@ -1437,7 +1435,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     infoUI = () => (this.Document._hideInfo || this.Document.annotationOn || this._props.renderDepth ? null : <CollectionFreeFormInfoUI Document={this.Document} Freeform={this} close={this.closeInfo} />);
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         super.componentDidMount?.();
         setTimeout(
             action(() => {
@@ -1639,15 +1637,15 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
 
         const appearance = ContextMenu.Instance.findByDescription('Appearance...');
         const appearanceItems = appearance && 'subitems' in appearance ? appearance.subitems : [];
-        !this._props.Document.isGroup && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Reset View', event: this.resetView, icon: 'compress-arrows-alt' });
-        !this._props.Document.isGroup && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Toggle Auto Reset View', event: this.toggleResetView, icon: 'compress-arrows-alt' });
+        !this.Document.isGroup && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Reset View', event: this.resetView, icon: 'compress-arrows-alt' });
+        !this.Document.isGroup && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Toggle Auto Reset View', event: this.toggleResetView, icon: 'compress-arrows-alt' });
         !Doc.noviceMode &&
             appearanceItems.push({
                 description: 'Toggle auto arrange',
                 event: () => (this.layoutDoc._autoArrange = !this.layoutDoc._autoArrange),
                 icon: 'compress-arrows-alt',
             });
-        if (this._props.setContentView === emptyFunction) {
+        if (this._props.setContentViewBox === emptyFunction) {
             !appearance && ContextMenu.Instance.addItem({ description: 'Appearance...', subitems: appearanceItems, icon: 'eye' });
             return;
         }
@@ -1656,7 +1654,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
         !Doc.noviceMode && appearanceItems.push({ description: `update icon`, event: this.updateIcon, icon: 'compress-arrows-alt' });
         this._props.renderDepth && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Ungroup collection', event: this.promoteCollection, icon: 'table' });
 
-        this._props.Document.isGroup && this.Document.transcription && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Ink to text', event: this.transcribeStrokes, icon: 'font' });
+        this.Document.isGroup && this.Document.transcription && appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Ink to text', event: this.transcribeStrokes, icon: 'font' });
 
         !Doc.noviceMode ? appearanceItems.push({ description: 'Arrange contents in grid', event: this.layoutDocsInGrid, icon: 'table' }) : null;
         !Doc.noviceMode ? appearanceItems.push({ description: (this.Document._freeform_useClusters ? 'Hide' : 'Show') + ' Clusters', event: () => this.updateClusters(!this.Document._freeform_useClusters), icon: 'braille' }) : null;
@@ -1680,8 +1678,8 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
 
     @undoBatch
     transcribeStrokes = () => {
-        if (this._props.Document.isGroup && this._props.Document.transcription) {
-            const text = StrCast(this._props.Document.transcription);
+        if (this.Document.isGroup && this.Document.transcription) {
+            const text = StrCast(this.Document.transcription);
             const lines = text.split('\n');
             const height = 30 + 15 * lines.length;
 
@@ -1742,7 +1740,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
     @computed get placeholder() {
         return (
             <div className="collectionfreeformview-placeholder" style={{ background: this._props.styleProvider?.(this.Document, this._props, StyleProp.BackgroundColor) }}>
-                <span className="collectionfreeformview-placeholderSpan">{this._props.Document.annotationOn ? '' : this._props.Document.title?.toString()}</span>
+                <span className="collectionfreeformview-placeholderSpan">{this.Document.annotationOn ? '' : this.Document.title?.toString()}</span>
             </div>
         );
     }
@@ -1882,10 +1880,10 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormView extends CollectionSubView<Partial<collection
                             PanelHeight={this.lightboxPanelHeight}
                             NativeWidth={returnZero}
                             NativeHeight={returnZero}
-                            onClick={this.onChildClickHandler}
+                            onClickScript={this.onChildClickHandler}
                             onKey={this.onKeyDown}
-                            onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
-                            onBrowseClick={this.onBrowseClickHandler}
+                            onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
+                            onBrowseClickScript={this.onBrowseClickHandler}
                             childFilters={this.childDocFilters}
                             childFiltersByRanges={this.childDocRangeFilters}
                             searchFilterDocs={this.searchFilterDocs}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
index 39d828302..c2f8232c6 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionFreeForm/MarqueeView.tsx
@@ -352,9 +352,10 @@ export class MarqueeView extends ObservableReactComponent<SubCollectionViewProps
         const newCollection = creator
             ? creator(selected, { title: 'nested stack' })
             : ((doc: Doc) => {
-                  Doc.GetProto(doc).data = new List<Doc>(selected);
-                  Doc.GetProto(doc).isGroup = makeGroup;
-                  Doc.GetProto(doc).title = makeGroup ? 'grouping' : 'nested freeform';
+                  const docData = doc[DocData];
+                  docData.data = new List<Doc>(selected);
+                  docData.isGroup = makeGroup;
+                  docData.title = makeGroup ? 'grouping' : 'nested freeform';
                   doc._freeform_panX = doc._freeform_panY = 0;
                   return doc;
               })(Doc.MakeCopy(Doc.UserDoc().emptyCollection as Doc, true));
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx
index 113ffedb3..f25872c2b 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionGrid/CollectionGridView.tsx
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ export class CollectionGridView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 {...this._props}
                 NativeWidth={returnZero}
                 NativeHeight={returnZero}
-                setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                setContentViewBox={emptyFunction}
                 Document={layout}
                 TemplateDataDocument={layout.resolvedDataDoc as Doc}
                 isContentActive={this.isChildContentActive}
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ export class CollectionGridView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 PanelHeight={height}
                 ScreenToLocalTransform={dxf}
                 whenChildContentsActiveChanged={this._props.whenChildContentsActiveChanged}
-                onClick={this.onChildClickHandler}
+                onClickScript={this.onChildClickHandler}
                 renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
                 dontCenter={StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_dontCenter) as any} // 'y', 'x', 'xy'
             />
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ export class CollectionGridView extends CollectionSubView() {
      * Handles text document creation on double click.
      */
     onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent) => {
-        if (this._props.isContentActive(true)) {
+        if (this._props.isContentActive()) {
             setupMoveUpEvents(
                 this,
                 e,
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx
index 40b4151fe..1fa106b45 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMulticolumnView.tsx
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ export class CollectionMulticolumnView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 PanelHeight={height}
                 rootSelected={this.rootSelected}
                 dragAction={StrCast(this.Document.childDragAction, this._props.childDragAction) as dropActionType}
-                onClick={this.onChildClickHandler}
-                onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
+                onClickScript={this.onChildClickHandler}
+                onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
                 suppressSetHeight={true}
                 ScreenToLocalTransform={dxf}
                 isContentActive={this.isChildContentActive}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView.tsx
index 04a4042f1..97a444b8c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/CollectionMultirowView.tsx
@@ -262,8 +262,8 @@ export class CollectionMultirowView extends CollectionSubView() {
                 PanelHeight={height}
                 rootSelected={this.rootSelected}
                 dragAction={StrCast(this.Document.childDragAction, this._props.childDragAction) as dropActionType}
-                onClick={this.onChildClickHandler}
-                onDoubleClick={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
+                onClickScript={this.onChildClickHandler}
+                onDoubleClickScript={this.onChildDoubleClickHandler}
                 ScreenToLocalTransform={dxf}
                 isContentActive={this.isChildContentActive}
                 isDocumentActive={this._props.childDocumentsActive?.() || this.Document._childDocumentsActive ? this._props.isDocumentActive : this.isContentActive}
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/MulticolumnResizer.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/MulticolumnResizer.tsx
index c38c6dc4e..d580d9c52 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/MulticolumnResizer.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/MulticolumnResizer.tsx
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-import { action, observable } from 'mobx';
+import { action } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
 import { NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../../fields/Types';
 import { UndoManager } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
 import { StyleProp } from '../../StyleProvider';
-import { StyleProviderFunc } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { StyleProviderFuncType } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
 import { DimUnit } from './CollectionMulticolumnView';
 
 interface ResizerProps {
     width: number;
-    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFunc;
+    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFuncType;
     isContentActive?: () => boolean | undefined;
     columnUnitLength(): number | undefined;
     toLeft?: Doc;
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/MultirowResizer.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/MultirowResizer.tsx
index 6f1b3b425..73d08d5ef 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/MultirowResizer.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionMulticolumn/MultirowResizer.tsx
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-import { action, observable } from 'mobx';
+import { action } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
 import { NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../../fields/Types';
 import { UndoManager } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
 import { StyleProp } from '../../StyleProvider';
-import { StyleProviderFunc } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { StyleProviderFuncType } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
 import { DimUnit } from './CollectionMultirowView';
 
 interface ResizerProps {
     height: number;
-    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFunc;
+    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFuncType;
     isContentActive?: () => boolean | undefined;
     columnUnitLength(): number | undefined;
     toTop?: Doc;
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
index 227274a53..ec91b25f8 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/CollectionSchemaView.tsx
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ import { undoable, undoBatch } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../../ContextMenu';
 import { EditableView } from '../../EditableView';
 import { Colors } from '../../global/globalEnums';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldViewProps } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from '../../nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider, StyleProp } from '../../StyleProvider';
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@ import { CollectionSubView } from '../CollectionSubView';
 import './CollectionSchemaView.scss';
 import { SchemaColumnHeader } from './SchemaColumnHeader';
 import { SchemaRowBox } from './SchemaRowBox';
-import { FieldViewProps } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
 
 export enum ColumnType {
     Number,
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionSubView() {
     }
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         document.addEventListener('keydown', this.onKeyDown);
 
         Object.entries(this._documentOptions).forEach((pair: [string, FInfo]) => this.fieldInfos.set(pair[0], pair[1]));
@@ -498,13 +498,13 @@ export class CollectionSchemaView extends CollectionSubView() {
         ContextMenu.Instance.displayMenu(x, y, undefined, true);
     };
 
-    focusDocument = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focusDocument = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         Doc.BrushDoc(doc);
         this.scrollToDoc(doc, options);
         return undefined;
     };
 
-    scrollToDoc = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    scrollToDoc = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         const found = this._tableContentRef && Array.from(this._tableContentRef.getElementsByClassName('documentView-node')).find((node: any) => node.id === doc[Id]);
         if (found) {
             const rect = found.getBoundingClientRect();
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx
index 3f94e7fc1..f2fe0dde7 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaRowBox.tsx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { DragManager } from '../../../util/DragManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../../util/SnappingManager';
 import { Transform } from '../../../util/Transform';
 import { undoable } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
-import { ViewBoxBaseComponent, ViewBoxBaseProps } from '../../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxBaseComponent } from '../../DocComponent';
 import { Colors } from '../../global/globalEnums';
 import { OpenWhere } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
@@ -20,17 +20,17 @@ import { CollectionSchemaView } from './CollectionSchemaView';
 import './CollectionSchemaView.scss';
 import { SchemaTableCell } from './SchemaTableCell';
 
-interface SchemaRowBoxProps {
+interface SchemaRowBoxProps extends FieldViewProps {
     rowIndex: number;
 }
 @observer
-export class SchemaRowBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & SchemaRowBoxProps & ViewBoxBaseProps>() {
+export class SchemaRowBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<SchemaRowBoxProps>() {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string, rowIndex: number) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(SchemaRowBox, fieldKey).replace('fieldKey', `rowIndex={${rowIndex}} fieldKey`);
     }
     private _ref: HTMLDivElement | null = null;
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: SchemaRowBoxProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ export class SchemaRowBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & SchemaRo
     }
 
     componentDidMount(): void {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
 
     select = (ctrlKey: boolean, shiftKey: boolean) => {
diff --git a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaTableCell.tsx b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaTableCell.tsx
index 422c4155d..fda5764dd 100644
--- a/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaTableCell.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/collections/collectionSchema/SchemaTableCell.tsx
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import { EditableView } from '../../EditableView';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider } from '../../StyleProvider';
 import { Colors } from '../../global/globalEnums';
-import { OpenWhere } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
+import { OpenWhere, returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../../nodes/DocumentView';
 import { FieldViewProps } from '../../nodes/FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from '../../nodes/KeyValueBox';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../../nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ export interface SchemaTableCellProps {
 
 @observer
 export class SchemaTableCell extends ObservableReactComponent<SchemaTableCellProps> {
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: SchemaTableCellProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ export class SchemaTableCell extends ObservableReactComponent<SchemaTableCellPro
         const fieldProps: FieldViewProps = {
             childFilters: returnEmptyFilter,
             childFiltersByRanges: returnEmptyFilter,
+            docViewPath: returnEmptyDocViewList,
             searchFilterDocs: returnEmptyDoclist,
             styleProvider: DefaultStyleProvider,
             isSelected: returnFalse,
diff --git a/src/client/views/linking/LinkMenu.tsx b/src/client/views/linking/LinkMenu.tsx
index b7376e901..12b83414c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/linking/LinkMenu.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/linking/LinkMenu.tsx
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export class LinkMenu extends ObservableReactComponent<Props> {
     render() {
         const sourceDoc = this.props.docView.Document;
         const sourceAnchor = this.props.docView.anchorViewDoc ?? sourceDoc;
-        const style = this.props.style ?? (dv => ({ left: dv?.left || 0, top: this.props.docView.topMost ? undefined : (dv?.bottom || 0) + 15, bottom: this.props.docView.topMost ? 20 : undefined, maxWidth: 200 }))(this.props.docView.getBounds());
+        const style = this.props.style ?? (dv => ({ left: dv?.left || 0, top: this.props.docView.topMost ? undefined : (dv?.bottom || 0) + 15, bottom: this.props.docView.topMost ? 20 : undefined, maxWidth: 200 }))(this.props.docView.getBounds);
 
         return (
             <div className="linkMenu" ref={this._linkMenuRef} style={{ ...style, background: SettingsManager.userBackgroundColor, color: SettingsManager.userColor }}>
diff --git a/src/client/views/linking/LinkMenuGroup.tsx b/src/client/views/linking/LinkMenuGroup.tsx
index 91142b90b..028d3da53 100644
--- a/src/client/views/linking/LinkMenuGroup.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/linking/LinkMenuGroup.tsx
@@ -47,18 +47,18 @@ export class LinkMenuGroup extends React.Component<LinkMenuGroupProps> {
             const sourceDoc =
                 this.props.docView.anchorViewDoc ??
                 (this.props.docView.Document.type === DocumentType.LINK //
-                    ? this.props.docView.props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes('link_anchor_1')
+                    ? this.props.docView._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes('link_anchor_1')
                         ? DocCast(linkDoc.link_anchor_1)
                         : DocCast(linkDoc.link_anchor_2)
                     : this.props.sourceDoc);
             const destDoc = !sourceDoc
                 ? undefined
                 : this.props.docView.Document.type === DocumentType.LINK
-                ? this.props.docView.props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes('link_anchor_1')
-                    ? DocCast(linkDoc.link_anchor_2)
-                    : DocCast(linkDoc.link_anchor_1)
-                : LinkManager.getOppositeAnchor(linkDoc, sourceDoc) ||
-                  LinkManager.getOppositeAnchor(linkDoc, Cast(linkDoc.link_anchor_2, Doc, null).annotationOn === sourceDoc ? Cast(linkDoc.link_anchor_2, Doc, null) : Cast(linkDoc.link_anchor_1, Doc, null));
+                  ? this.props.docView._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes('link_anchor_1')
+                      ? DocCast(linkDoc.link_anchor_2)
+                      : DocCast(linkDoc.link_anchor_1)
+                  : LinkManager.getOppositeAnchor(linkDoc, sourceDoc) ||
+                    LinkManager.getOppositeAnchor(linkDoc, Cast(linkDoc.link_anchor_2, Doc, null).annotationOn === sourceDoc ? Cast(linkDoc.link_anchor_2, Doc, null) : Cast(linkDoc.link_anchor_1, Doc, null));
             return !destDoc || !sourceDoc ? null : (
                 <LinkMenuItem
                     key={linkDoc[Id]}
diff --git a/src/client/views/newlightbox/NewLightboxView.tsx b/src/client/views/newlightbox/NewLightboxView.tsx
index 6760a0b1e..ed575c329 100644
--- a/src/client/views/newlightbox/NewLightboxView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/newlightbox/NewLightboxView.tsx
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ export class NewLightboxView extends React.Component<LightboxViewProps> {
                         addDocTab={this.addDocTab}
                         pinToPres={TabDocView.PinDoc}
                         bringToFront={emptyFunction}
-                        onBrowseClick={DocumentView.exploreMode}
+                        onBrowseClickScript={DocumentView.exploreMode}
                         focus={emptyFunction}
                     />
                 </GestureOverlay>
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx
index 1729af191..2b71fd156 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/AudioBox.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { DateField } from '../../../fields/DateField';
 import { Doc } from '../../../fields/Doc';
+import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { ComputedField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { Cast, DateCast, NumCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { AudioField, nullAudio } from '../../../fields/URLField';
@@ -19,8 +20,7 @@ import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
 import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent } from '../DocComponent';
 import './AudioBox.scss';
-import { DocFocusOptions } from './DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
 
 /**
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ export class AudioBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
 
     @action
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         if (this.path) {
             this.mediaState = media_state.Paused;
             this.setPlayheadTime(NumCast(this.layoutDoc.clipStart));
@@ -374,9 +374,10 @@ export class AudioBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
             action(() => {
                 const newDoc = DocUtils.GetNewTextDoc('', NumCast(this.Document.x), NumCast(this.Document.y) + NumCast(this.layoutDoc._height) + 10, NumCast(this.layoutDoc._width), 2 * NumCast(this.layoutDoc._height));
                 const textField = Doc.LayoutFieldKey(newDoc);
-                Doc.GetProto(newDoc)[`${textField}_recordingSource`] = this.dataDoc;
-                Doc.GetProto(newDoc)[`${textField}_recordingStart`] = ComputedField.MakeFunction(`this.${textField}_recordingSource.${this.fieldKey}_recordingStart`);
-                Doc.GetProto(newDoc).mediaState = ComputedField.MakeFunction(`this.${textField}_recordingSource.mediaState`);
+                const newDocData = newDoc[DocData];
+                newDocData[`${textField}_recordingSource`] = this.dataDoc;
+                newDocData[`${textField}_recordingStart`] = ComputedField.MakeFunction(`this.${textField}_recordingSource.${this.fieldKey}_recordingStart`);
+                newDocData.mediaState = ComputedField.MakeFunction(`this.${textField}_recordingSource.mediaState`);
                 if (Doc.IsInMyOverlay(this.Document)) {
                     newDoc.overlayX = this.Document.x;
                     newDoc.overlayY = NumCast(this.Document.y) + NumCast(this.layoutDoc._height);
@@ -432,7 +433,7 @@ export class AudioBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     };
 
     // plays link
-    playLink = (link: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    playLink = (link: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (link.annotationOn === this.Document) {
             if (!this.layoutDoc.dontAutoPlayFollowedLinks) {
                 this.playFrom(this.timeline?.anchorStart(link) || 0, this.timeline?.anchorEnd(link));
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
index 73709c17e..0ae4ed62c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView.tsx
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ export interface CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapperProps extends DocumentView
     CollectionFreeFormView: CollectionFreeFormView;
 }
 @observer
-export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapper extends ObservableReactComponent<CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapperProps> implements CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps {
-    constructor(props: any) {
+export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapper extends ObservableReactComponent<CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapperProps> {
+    constructor(props: CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapperProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewWrapper extends ObservableReactCompon
         );
     }
 }
-export interface CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps {
+export interface CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps extends DocumentViewProps {
     w_X: () => number;
     w_Y: () => number;
     w_Z: () => number;
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ export interface CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps {
 }
 
 @observer
-export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentView extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps & DocumentViewProps>() {
-    constructor(props: any) {
+export class CollectionFreeFormDocumentView extends DocComponent<CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps>() {
+    constructor(props: CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
index 500eb52ac..116dc48a6 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/ComparisonBox.tsx
@@ -8,20 +8,20 @@ import { DocCast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { DocUtils, Docs } from '../../documents/Documents';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
 import { undoBatch } from '../../util/UndoManager';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../DocComponent';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import './ComparisonBox.scss';
-import { DocumentView, returnEmptyDocViewList } from './DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView } from './DocumentView';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
 
 @observer
-export class ComparisonBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class ComparisonBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(ComparisonBox, fieldKey);
     }
     private _disposers: (DragManager.DragDropDisposer | undefined)[] = [undefined, undefined];
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export class ComparisonBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
         return '_' + this._props.fieldKey + '_clipWidth';
     }
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
     protected createDropTarget = (ele: HTMLDivElement | null, fieldKey: string, disposerId: number) => {
         this._disposers[disposerId]?.();
@@ -152,9 +152,6 @@ export class ComparisonBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
         if (property === StyleProp.PointerEvents) return 'none';
         return this._props.styleProvider?.(doc, props, property);
     };
-    @computed get childContainerViewPath() {
-        return this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
-    }
     moveDoc1 = (doc: Doc | Doc[], targetCol: Doc | undefined, addDoc: any) => (doc instanceof Doc ? [doc] : doc).reduce((res, doc: Doc) => res && this.moveDoc(doc, addDoc, this.fieldKey + '_1'), true);
     moveDoc2 = (doc: Doc | Doc[], targetCol: Doc | undefined, addDoc: any) => (doc instanceof Doc ? [doc] : doc).reduce((res, doc: Doc) => res && this.moveDoc(doc, addDoc, this.fieldKey + '_2'), true);
     remDoc1 = (doc: Doc | Doc[]) => (doc instanceof Doc ? [doc] : doc).reduce((res, doc) => res && this.remDoc(doc, this.fieldKey + '_1'), true);
@@ -181,7 +178,7 @@ export class ComparisonBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
                         {...this._props}
                         Document={targetDoc}
                         TemplateDataDocument={undefined}
-                        containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
+                        containerViewPath={this.DocumentView?.().docViewPath}
                         moveDocument={which.endsWith('1') ? this.moveDoc1 : this.moveDoc2}
                         removeDocument={which.endsWith('1') ? this.remDoc1 : this.remDoc2}
                         NativeWidth={returnZero}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx
index 5ceec98cb..8365f4770 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DataVizBox/DataVizBox.tsx
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ import { TraceMobx } from '../../../../fields/util';
 import { Docs } from '../../../documents/Documents';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../../../util/DocumentManager';
 import { UndoManager, undoable } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../../DocComponent';
 import { MarqueeAnnotator } from '../../MarqueeAnnotator';
 import { SidebarAnnos } from '../../SidebarAnnos';
 import { AnchorMenu } from '../../pdf/AnchorMenu';
 import { GPTPopup } from '../../pdf/GPTPopup/GPTPopup';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from '../DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
 import { PinProps } from '../trails';
 import './DataVizBox.scss';
 import { Histogram } from './components/Histogram';
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export enum DataVizView {
 }
 
 @observer
-export class DataVizBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class DataVizBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     private _mainCont: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement> = React.createRef();
     private _marqueeref = React.createRef<MarqueeAnnotator>();
     private _annotationLayer: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement> = React.createRef();
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ export class DataVizBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatablePr
     @observable _marqueeing: number[] | undefined = undefined;
     @observable _savedAnnotations = new ObservableMap<number, HTMLDivElement[]>();
 
-    constructor(props: ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
 
     @computed get annotationLayer() {
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ export class DataVizBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatablePr
             () => UndoManager.RunInBatch(this.toggleSidebar, 'toggle sidebar')
         );
     };
-    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (this._sidebarRef?.current?.makeDocUnfiltered(doc) && !this.SidebarShown) {
             options.didMove = true;
             this.toggleSidebar();
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ export class DataVizBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatablePr
     sidebarRemoveDocument = (doc: Doc | Doc[], sidebarKey?: string) => this.removeDocument(doc, sidebarKey);
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         if (!DataVizBox.dataset.has(CsvCast(this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey]).url.href)) this.fetchData();
     }
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
index 55859b92b..9538cebb2 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentContentsView.tsx
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import { YoutubeBox } from './../../apis/youtube/YoutubeBox';
 import { AudioBox } from './AudioBox';
 import { ComparisonBox } from './ComparisonBox';
 import { DataVizBox } from './DataVizBox/DataVizBox';
-import { DocumentViewProps } from './DocumentView';
 import './DocumentView.scss';
 import { EquationBox } from './EquationBox';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
@@ -114,13 +113,11 @@ export class HTMLtag extends React.Component<HTMLtagProps> {
     }
 }
 
+export interface DocumentContentsViewProps extends FieldViewProps {
+    layoutFieldKey: string;
+}
 @observer
-export class DocumentContentsView extends ObservableReactComponent<
-    FieldViewProps & {
-        onClick?: () => ScriptField;
-        LayoutTemplate?: () => Opt<Doc>;
-    }
-> {
+export class DocumentContentsView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentContentsViewProps> {
     constructor(props: any) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
@@ -130,8 +127,8 @@ export class DocumentContentsView extends ObservableReactComponent<
         TraceMobx();
         if (this._props.LayoutTemplateString) return this._props.LayoutTemplateString;
         if (!this.layoutDoc) return '<p>awaiting layout</p>';
-        if (this._props.fieldKey === 'layout_keyValue') return StrCast(this._props.Document.layout_keyValue, KeyValueBox.LayoutString());
-        const layout = Cast(this.layoutDoc[this.layoutDoc === this._props.Document && this._props.fieldKey ? this._props.fieldKey : StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_fieldKey, 'layout')], 'string');
+        if (this._props.layoutFieldKey === 'layout_keyValue') return StrCast(this._props.Document.layout_keyValue, KeyValueBox.LayoutString());
+        const layout = Cast(this.layoutDoc[this.layoutDoc === this._props.Document && this._props.layoutFieldKey ? this._props.layoutFieldKey : StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_fieldKey, 'layout')], 'string');
         if (layout === undefined) return this._props.Document.data ? "<FieldView {...props} fieldKey='data' />" : KeyValueBox.LayoutString();
         if (typeof layout === 'string') return layout;
         return '<p>Loading layout</p>';
@@ -143,26 +140,26 @@ export class DocumentContentsView extends ObservableReactComponent<
         const template: Doc =
             this._props.LayoutTemplate?.() ||
             (this._props.LayoutTemplateString && this._props.Document) ||
-            (this._props.fieldKey && StrCast(this._props.Document[this._props.fieldKey]) && this._props.Document) ||
-            Doc.Layout(this._props.Document, this._props.fieldKey ? Cast(this._props.Document[this._props.fieldKey], Doc, null) : undefined);
+            (this._props.layoutFieldKey && StrCast(this._props.Document[this._props.layoutFieldKey]) && this._props.Document) ||
+            Doc.Layout(this._props.Document, this._props.layoutFieldKey ? Cast(this._props.Document[this._props.layoutFieldKey], Doc, null) : undefined);
         return Doc.expandTemplateLayout(template, this._props.Document);
     }
 
     CreateBindings(onClick: Opt<ScriptField>, onInput: Opt<ScriptField>): JsxBindings {
         const docOnlyProps = [
-            // these are the properties in  DocumentViewProps that need to be removed to pass on only DocumentSharedViewProps to the FieldViews
+            // these are the properties in DocumentViewProps that need to be removed to pass on only DocumentSharedViewProps to the FieldViews
             'hideResizeHandles',
             'hideTitle',
             'contentPointerEvents',
-            'radialMenu',
             'LayoutTemplateString',
             'LayoutTemplate',
+            'layoutFieldKey',
             'dontCenter',
             'contextMenuItems',
             //'onClick', // don't need to omit this since it will be set
-            'onDoubleClick',
-            'onPointerDown',
-            'onPointerUp',
+            'onDoubleClickScript',
+            'onPointerDownScript',
+            'onPointerUpScript',
         ];
         const templateDataDoc = this._props.TemplateDataDocument ?? (this.layoutDoc !== this._props.Document ? this._props.Document[DocData] : undefined);
         const list: BindingProps & React.DetailedHTMLProps<React.HtmlHTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement>, HTMLDivElement> = {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentIcon.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentIcon.tsx
index 5ce08cdc3..4a22766cc 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentIcon.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentIcon.tsx
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export class DocumentIcon extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentIconProps> {
     }
     render() {
         const view = this._props.view;
-        const { left, top, right, bottom } = view.getBounds() || { left: 0, top: 0, right: 0, bottom: 0 };
+        const { left, top, right, bottom } = view.getBounds || { left: 0, top: 0, right: 0, bottom: 0 };
 
         return (
             <div
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx
index f5949a451..d1805308d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentLinksButton.tsx
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import { DocumentView } from './DocumentView';
 import { LinkDescriptionPopup } from './LinkDescriptionPopup';
 import { TaskCompletionBox } from './TaskCompletedBox';
 import { PinProps } from './trails';
+import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 
 interface DocumentLinksButtonProps {
     View: DocumentView;
@@ -158,41 +159,40 @@ export class DocumentLinksButton extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentLinksB
 
                 LinkManager.currentLink = linkDoc;
 
-                if (DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationId && DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationUri) {
-                    // if linking from a Hypothes.is annotation
-                    Doc.GetProto(linkDoc as Doc).linksToAnnotation = true;
-                    Doc.GetProto(linkDoc as Doc).annotationId = DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationId;
-                    Doc.GetProto(linkDoc as Doc).annotationUri = DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationUri;
-                    const dashHyperlink = Doc.globalServerPath(startIsAnnotation ? endLink : startLink);
-                    Hypothesis.makeLink(StrCast(startIsAnnotation ? endLink.title : startLink.title), dashHyperlink, DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationId, startIsAnnotation ? startLink : endLink); // edit annotation to add a Dash hyperlink to the linked doc
-                }
-
                 if (linkDoc) {
+                    if (DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationId && DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationUri) {
+                        // if linking from a Hypothes.is annotation
+                        const linkDocData = linkDoc[DocData];
+                        linkDocData.linksToAnnotation = true;
+                        linkDocData.annotationId = DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationId;
+                        linkDocData.annotationUri = DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationUri;
+                        const dashHyperlink = Doc.globalServerPath(startIsAnnotation ? endLink : startLink);
+                        Hypothesis.makeLink(StrCast(startIsAnnotation ? endLink.title : startLink.title), dashHyperlink, DocumentLinksButton.AnnotationId, startIsAnnotation ? startLink : endLink); // edit annotation to add a Dash hyperlink to the linked doc
+                    }
+
                     TaskCompletionBox.textDisplayed = 'Link Created';
                     TaskCompletionBox.popupX = screenX;
                     TaskCompletionBox.popupY = screenY - 133;
                     TaskCompletionBox.taskCompleted = true;
 
-                    if (LinkDescriptionPopup.showDescriptions === 'ON' || !LinkDescriptionPopup.showDescriptions) {
-                        LinkDescriptionPopup.popupX = screenX;
-                        LinkDescriptionPopup.popupY = screenY - 100;
-                        LinkDescriptionPopup.descriptionPopup = true;
+                    if (LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.showDescriptions === 'ON' || !LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.showDescriptions) {
+                        LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupX = screenX;
+                        LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupY = screenY - 100;
+                        LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.display = true;
                     }
 
                     const rect = document.body.getBoundingClientRect();
-                    if (LinkDescriptionPopup.popupX + 200 > rect.width) {
-                        LinkDescriptionPopup.popupX -= 190;
+                    if (LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupX + 200 > rect.width) {
+                        LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupX -= 190;
                         TaskCompletionBox.popupX -= 40;
                     }
-                    if (LinkDescriptionPopup.popupY + 100 > rect.height) {
-                        LinkDescriptionPopup.popupY -= 40;
+                    if (LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupY + 100 > rect.height) {
+                        LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance.popupY -= 40;
                         TaskCompletionBox.popupY -= 40;
                     }
 
                     setTimeout(
-                        action(() => {
-                            TaskCompletionBox.taskCompleted = false;
-                        }),
+                        action(() => (TaskCompletionBox.taskCompleted = false)),
                         2500
                     );
                 }
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
index 444c300f3..3e5e43b47 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/DocumentView.tsx
@@ -3,19 +3,17 @@ import { Dropdown, DropdownType, Type } from 'browndash-components';
 import { Howl } from 'howler';
 import { IReactionDisposer, action, computed, makeObservable, observable, reaction, runInAction } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
-import { computedFn } from 'mobx-utils';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Bounce, Fade, Flip, JackInTheBox, Roll, Rotate, Zoom } from 'react-awesome-reveal';
 import { Utils, emptyFunction, isTargetChildOf as isParentOf, lightOrDark, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnTrue, returnVal, simulateMouseClick } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Field, Opt, StrListCast } from '../../../fields/Doc';
-import { AclPrivate, Animation, AudioPlay, DocViews } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { AclPrivate, Animation, AudioPlay, DocData, DocViews } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { InkTool } from '../../../fields/InkField';
 import { List } from '../../../fields/List';
-import { RefField } from '../../../fields/RefField';
 import { listSpec } from '../../../fields/Schema';
 import { ScriptField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
-import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, ImageCast, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
+import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, NumCast, ScriptCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { AudioField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
 import { GetEffectiveAcl, TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
 import { DocServer } from '../../DocServer';
@@ -33,34 +31,27 @@ import { SelectionManager } from '../../util/SelectionManager';
 import { SettingsManager } from '../../util/SettingsManager';
 import { SharingManager } from '../../util/SharingManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../util/SnappingManager';
-import { Transform } from '../../util/Transform';
-import { UndoManager, undoBatch } from '../../util/UndoManager';
+import { UndoManager, undoBatch, undoable } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
-import { DocComponent } from '../DocComponent';
+import { DocComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../DocComponent';
 import { EditableView } from '../EditableView';
 import { GestureOverlay } from '../GestureOverlay';
 import { LightboxView } from '../LightboxView';
-import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
-import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentView } from './CollectionFreeFormDocumentView';
 import { DocumentContentsView, ObserverJsxParser } from './DocumentContentsView';
 import { DocumentLinksButton } from './DocumentLinksButton';
 import './DocumentView.scss';
-import { FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
+import { FieldViewProps, FieldViewSharedProps } from './FieldView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from './KeyValueBox';
 import { LinkAnchorBox } from './LinkAnchorBox';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { PresEffect, PresEffectDirection } from './trails';
-import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails/PresBox';
-
 interface Window {
     MediaRecorder: MediaRecorder;
 }
-
 declare class MediaRecorder {
-    // whatever MediaRecorder has
-    constructor(e: any);
+    constructor(e: any); // whatever MediaRecorder has
 }
 
 export enum OpenWhereMod {
@@ -92,114 +83,7 @@ export enum OpenWhere {
 export function returnEmptyDocViewList() {
     return [] as DocumentView[];
 }
-export interface DocFocusOptions {
-    willPan?: boolean; // determines whether to pan to target document
-    willZoomCentered?: boolean; // determines whether to zoom in on target document.  if zoomScale is 0, this just centers the document
-    zoomScale?: number; // percent of containing frame to zoom into document
-    zoomTime?: number;
-    didMove?: boolean; // whether a document was changed during the showDocument process
-    docTransform?: Transform; // when a document can't be panned and zoomed within its own container (say a group), then we need to continue to move up the render hierarchy to find something that can pan and zoom.  when this happens the docTransform must accumulate all the transforms of each level of the hierarchy
-    instant?: boolean; // whether focus should happen instantly (as opposed to smooth zoom)
-    preview?: boolean; // whether changes should be previewed by the componentView or written to the document
-    effect?: Doc; // animation effect for focus
-    noSelect?: boolean; // whether target should be selected after focusing
-    playAudio?: boolean; // whether to play audio annotation on focus
-    playMedia?: boolean; // whether to play start target videos
-    openLocation?: OpenWhere; // where to open a missing document
-    zoomTextSelections?: boolean; // whether to display a zoomed overlay of anchor text selections
-    toggleTarget?: boolean; // whether to toggle target on and off
-    anchorDoc?: Doc; // doc containing anchor info to apply at end of focus to target doc
-    easeFunc?: 'linear' | 'ease'; // transition method for scrolling
-}
-export type DocFocusFunc = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => Opt<number>;
-export type StyleProviderFunc = (doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>, property: string) => any;
-export interface DocComponentView {
-    fieldKey?: string;
-    annotationKey?: string;
-    updateIcon?: () => void; // updates the icon representation of the document
-    getAnchor?: (addAsAnnotation: boolean, pinData?: PinProps) => Doc; // returns an Anchor Doc that represents the current state of the doc's componentview (e.g., the current playhead location of a an audio/video box)
-    restoreView?: (viewSpec: Doc) => boolean;
-    scrollPreview?: (docView: DocumentView, doc: Doc, focusSpeed: number, options: DocFocusOptions) => Opt<number>; // returns the duration of the focus
-    brushView?: (view: { width: number; height: number; panX: number; panY: number }, transTime: number, holdTime: number) => void; // highlight a region of a view (used by freeforms)
-    getView?: (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => Promise<Opt<DocumentView>>; // returns a nested DocumentView for the specified doc or undefined
-    addDocTab?: (doc: Doc, where: OpenWhere) => boolean; // determines how to add a document - used in following links to open the target ina local lightbox
-    addDocument?: (doc: Doc | Doc[], annotationKey?: string) => boolean; // add a document (used only by collections)
-    select?: (ctrlKey: boolean, shiftKey: boolean) => void;
-    focus?: (textAnchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => Opt<number>;
-    isAnyChildContentActive?: () => boolean; // is any child content of the document active
-    onClickScriptDisable?: () => 'never' | 'always'; // disable click scripts : never, always, or undefined = only when selected
-    getKeyFrameEditing?: () => boolean; // whether the document is in keyframe editing mode (if it is, then all hidden documents that are not active at the keyframe time will still be shown)
-    setKeyFrameEditing?: (set: boolean) => void; // whether the document is in keyframe editing mode (if it is, then all hidden documents that are not active at the keyframe time will still be shown)
-    playFrom?: (time: number, endTime?: number) => void;
-    Pause?: () => void; // pause a media document (eg, audio/video)
-    IsPlaying?: () => boolean; // is a media document playing
-    TogglePause?: (keep?: boolean) => void; // toggle media document playing state
-    setFocus?: () => void; // sets input focus to the componentView
-    setData?: (data: Field | Promise<RefField | undefined>) => boolean;
-    componentUI?: (boundsLeft: number, boundsTop: number) => JSX.Element | null;
-    dragStarting?: (snapToDraggedDoc: boolean, showGroupDragTarget: boolean, visited: Set<Doc>) => void;
-    incrementalRendering?: () => void;
-    infoUI?: () => JSX.Element | null;
-    screenBounds?: () => Opt<{ left: number; top: number; right: number; bottom: number; center?: { X: number; Y: number } }>;
-    ptToScreen?: (pt: { X: number; Y: number }) => { X: number; Y: number };
-    ptFromScreen?: (pt: { X: number; Y: number }) => { X: number; Y: number };
-    snapPt?: (pt: { X: number; Y: number }, excludeSegs?: number[]) => { nearestPt: { X: number; Y: number }; distance: number };
-    search?: (str: string, bwd?: boolean, clear?: boolean) => boolean;
-}
-/**
- * props that DocumentViews, DocumentInternalViews and FieldViews all can use
- * */
-export interface DocumentViewSharedProps {
-    Document: Doc;
-    LayoutTemplateString?: string;
-    TemplateDataDocument?: Doc;
-    renderDepth: number;
-    scriptContext?: any; // can be assigned anything and will be passed as 'scriptContext' to any OnClick script that executes on this document
-    treeViewDoc?: Doc;
-    xPadding?: number;
-    yPadding?: number;
-    dontRegisterView?: boolean;
-    dropAction?: dropActionType;
-    dragAction?: dropActionType;
-    forceAutoHeight?: boolean;
-    ignoreAutoHeight?: boolean;
-    disableBrushing?: boolean; // should highlighting for this view be disabled when same document in another view is hovered over.
-    CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?: () => CollectionFreeFormDocumentView;
-    containerViewPath?: () => DocumentView[];
-    fitContentsToBox?: () => boolean; // used by freeformview to fit its contents to its panel. corresponds to _freeform_fitContentsToBox property on a Document
-    isGroupActive?: () => string | undefined; // is this document part of a group that is active
-    setContentView?: (view: DocComponentView) => any;
-    PanelWidth: () => number;
-    PanelHeight: () => number;
-    isDocumentActive?: () => boolean | undefined; // whether a document should handle pointer events
-    isContentActive: () => boolean | undefined; // whether document contents should handle pointer events
-    childFilters: () => string[];
-    childFiltersByRanges: () => string[];
-    styleProvider: Opt<StyleProviderFunc>;
-    setTitleFocus?: () => void;
-    focus: DocFocusFunc;
-    layout_fitWidth?: (doc: Doc) => boolean | undefined;
-    searchFilterDocs: () => Doc[];
-    layout_showTitle?: () => string;
-    whenChildContentsActiveChanged: (isActive: boolean) => void;
-    rootSelected?: () => boolean; // whether the root of a template has been selected
-    addDocTab: (doc: Doc, where: OpenWhere) => boolean;
-    filterAddDocument?: (doc: Doc[]) => boolean; // allows a document that renders a Collection view to filter or modify any documents added to the collection (see PresBox for an example)
-    addDocument?: (doc: Doc | Doc[], annotationKey?: string) => boolean;
-    removeDocument?: (doc: Doc | Doc[], annotationKey?: string) => boolean;
-    moveDocument?: (doc: Doc | Doc[], targetCollection: Doc | undefined, addDocument: (document: Doc | Doc[], annotationKey?: string) => boolean) => boolean;
-    pinToPres: (document: Doc, pinProps: PinProps) => void;
-    ScreenToLocalTransform: () => Transform;
-    bringToFront: (doc: Doc, sendToBack?: boolean) => void;
-    waitForDoubleClickToClick?: () => 'never' | 'always' | undefined;
-    defaultDoubleClick?: () => 'default' | 'ignore' | undefined;
-    pointerEvents?: () => Opt<string>;
-}
-
-/**
- * props that are used by DocumentViews and DocumentInternalViews but not by the contents of those views (FieldViews).
- */
-export interface DocumentViewProps extends DocumentViewSharedProps {
+export interface DocumentViewProps extends FieldViewSharedProps {
     hideDecorations?: boolean; // whether to suppress all DocumentDecorations when doc is selected
     hideResizeHandles?: boolean; // whether to suppress resized handles on doc decorations when this document is selected
     hideTitle?: boolean; // forces suppression of title. e.g, treeView document labels suppress titles in case they are globally active via settings
@@ -221,35 +105,22 @@ export interface DocumentViewProps extends DocumentViewSharedProps {
     onClickScriptDisable?: 'never' | 'always'; // undefined = only when selected
     NativeWidth?: () => number;
     NativeHeight?: () => number;
-    LayoutTemplate?: () => Opt<Doc>;
     contextMenuItems?: () => { script: ScriptField; filter?: ScriptField; label: string; icon: string }[];
-    onClick?: () => ScriptField;
-    onDoubleClick?: () => ScriptField;
-    onPointerDown?: () => ScriptField;
-    onPointerUp?: () => ScriptField;
-    onBrowseClick?: () => ScriptField | undefined;
-    onKey?: (e: React.KeyboardEvent, fieldProps: FieldViewProps) => boolean | undefined;
     dragStarting?: () => void;
     dragEnding?: () => void;
 }
-
-/**
- * props used by DocInternalViews and FieldViews but not DocumentViews
- * these props correspond to things that the DocumentView creates and thus doesn't need to receive as a prop
- */
-export interface DocumentViewInternalSharedProps {
-    select: (ctrlPressed: boolean, shiftPress?: boolean) => void;
-    isSelected: () => boolean;
-    docViewPath: () => DocumentView[];
-    NativeDimScaling?: () => number; // scaling the DocumentView does to transform its contents into its panel & needed by ScreenToLocal
-}
-export interface DocumentViewInternalProps extends DocumentViewProps, DocumentViewInternalSharedProps {
-    docViewPublic: () => DocumentView;
-}
-
 @observer
-export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps>() {
+export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<FieldViewProps & DocumentViewProps>() {
+    // this makes mobx trace() statements more descriptive
+    public get displayName()  { return 'DocumentViewInternal(' + this.Document.title + ')'; } // prettier-ignore
     public static SelectAfterContextMenu = true; //  whether a document should be selected after it's contextmenu is triggered.
+
+    /**
+     * This function is filled in by MainView to allow non-viewBox views to add Docs as tabs without
+     * needing to know about/reference MainView
+     */
+    public static addDocTabFunc: (doc: Doc, location: OpenWhere) => boolean = returnFalse;
+
     private _disposers: { [name: string]: IReactionDisposer } = {};
     private _doubleClickTimeout: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined;
     private _singleClickFunc: undefined | (() => any);
@@ -262,79 +133,51 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
     private _mainCont = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
     private _titleRef = React.createRef<EditableView>();
     private _dropDisposer?: DragManager.DragDropDisposer;
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps & DocumentViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
 
-    @observable _componentView: Opt<DocComponentView> = undefined; // needs to be accessed from DocumentView wrapper class
+    @observable _changingTitleField = false;
+    @observable _titleDropDownInnerWidth = 0; // width of menu dropdown when setting doc title
+    @observable _mounted = false; // turn off all pointer events if component isn't yet mounted (enables nested Docs in alternate UI textboxes that appear on hover which otherwise would grab focus from the text box, reverting to the original UI )
+    @observable _isContentActive: boolean | undefined = undefined;
+    @observable _pointerEvents: 'none' | 'all' | 'visiblePainted' | undefined = undefined;
+    @observable _componentView: Opt<ViewBoxInterface> = undefined; // needs to be accessed from DocumentView wrapper class
     @observable _animateScaleTime: Opt<number> = undefined; // milliseconds for animating between views.  defaults to 300 if not uset
     @observable _animateScalingTo = 0;
 
-    public get animateScaleTime() {
-        return this._animateScaleTime ?? 100;
-    }
-    public get displayName() {
-        return 'DocumentViewInternal(' + this.Document.title + ')';
-    } // this makes mobx trace() statements more descriptive
-
-    public get DocumentView() {
-        return this._props.docViewPublic;
-    }
+    get _contentDiv()  { return this._mainCont.current; } // prettier-ignore
+    get _docView()     { return this._props.DocumentView?.(); } // prettier-ignore
+
+    animateScaleTime = () => this._animateScaleTime ?? 100;
+    style = (doc: Doc, sprop: StyleProp | string) => this._props.styleProvider?.(doc, this._props, sprop);
+    @computed get layout_showTitle()   { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.ShowTitle) as Opt<string>; } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get opacity()            { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.Opacity); } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get boxShadow()          { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.BoxShadow); } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get borderRounding()     { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.BorderRounding); } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get widgetDecorations()  { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.Decorations); } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get backgroundBoxColor() { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.BackgroundColor + ':box'); } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get headerMargin()       { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.HeaderMargin) ?? 0; } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get layout_showCaption() { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.ShowCaption) ?? 0;  } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get titleHeight()        { return this.style(this.layoutDoc, StyleProp.TitleHeight) ?? 0;  } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get docContents()        { return this.style(this.Document, StyleProp.DocContents); } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get highlighting()       { return this.style(this.Document, StyleProp.Highlighting); } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed get borderPath()         { return this.style(this.Document, StyleProp.BorderPath); } // prettier-ignore
 
-    public get ContentDiv() {
-        return this._mainCont.current;
-    }
-    public get LayoutFieldKey() {
-        return Doc.LayoutFieldKey(this.layoutDoc);
-    }
-    @computed get styleProps(): FieldViewProps {
-        return { ...this._props, fieldKey: '' };
-    }
-    @computed get layout_showTitle() {
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.ShowTitle) as Opt<string>;
-    }
-    @computed get NativeDimScaling() {
-        return this._props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1;
-    }
-    @computed get thumb() {
-        return ImageCast(this.layoutDoc['thumb-frozen'], ImageCast(this.layoutDoc.thumb))?.url?.href.replace('.png', '_m.png');
-    }
-    @computed get opacity() {
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.Opacity);
-    }
-    @computed get boxShadow() {
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.BoxShadow);
-    }
-    @computed get borderRounding() {
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.BorderRounding);
-    }
-    @computed get widgetDecorations() {
-        TraceMobx();
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.Decorations);
-    }
-    @computed get backgroundBoxColor() {
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.BackgroundColor + ':box');
-    }
-    @computed get docContents() {
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.Document, this.styleProps, StyleProp.DocContents);
-    }
-    @computed get headerMargin() {
-        return this._props?.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.HeaderMargin) || 0;
-    }
-    @computed get layout_showCaption() {
-        return this._props?.hideCaptions ? undefined : this._props?.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.ShowCaption) || 0;
+    @computed get onClickHandler() {
+        return this._props.onClickScript?.() ?? this._props.onBrowseClickScript?.() ?? ScriptCast(this.Document.onClick, ScriptCast(this.layoutDoc.onClick));
     }
-    @computed get titleHeight() {
-        return this._props?.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this.styleProps, StyleProp.TitleHeight) || 0;
+    @computed get onDoubleClickHandler() {
+        return this._props.onDoubleClickScript?.() ?? ScriptCast(this.layoutDoc.onDoubleClick, ScriptCast(this.Document.onDoubleClick));
     }
-    @observable _pointerEvents: 'none' | 'all' | 'visiblePainted' | undefined = undefined;
-    @computed get pointerEvents(): 'none' | 'all' | 'visiblePainted' | undefined {
-        return this._pointerEvents;
+    @computed get onPointerDownHandler() {
+        return this._props.onPointerDownScript?.() ?? ScriptCast(this.layoutDoc.onPointerDown, ScriptCast(this.Document.onPointerDown));
     }
-    @computed get finalLayoutKey() {
-        return StrCast(this.Document.layout_fieldKey, 'layout');
+    @computed get onPointerUpHandler() {
+        return this._props.onPointerUpScript?.() ?? ScriptCast(this.layoutDoc.onPointerUp, ScriptCast(this.Document.onPointerUp));
     }
+
     @computed get disableClickScriptFunc() {
         const onScriptDisable = this._props.onClickScriptDisable ?? this._componentView?.onClickScriptDisable?.() ?? this.layoutDoc.onClickScriptDisable;
         // prettier-ignore
@@ -344,23 +187,50 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
             (onScriptDisable !== 'never' && (this.rootSelected() || this._componentView?.isAnyChildContentActive?.()))
         );
     }
-    @computed get onClickHandler() {
-        return this._props.onClick?.() ?? this._props.onBrowseClick?.() ?? Cast(this.Document.onClick, ScriptField, Cast(this.layoutDoc.onClick, ScriptField, null));
+    @computed get _rootSelected() {
+        return this._props.isSelected() || BoolCast(this._props.TemplateDataDocument && this._props.rootSelected?.());
     }
-    @computed get onDoubleClickHandler() {
-        return this._props.onDoubleClick?.() ?? Cast(this.layoutDoc.onDoubleClick, ScriptField, null) ?? this.Document.onDoubleClick;
+    /// disable pointer events on content when there's an enabled onClick script (but not the browse script) and the contents aren't forced active, or if contents are marked inactive
+    @computed get _contentPointerEvents() {
+        TraceMobx();
+        return this._props.contentPointerEvents ??
+            ((!this.disableClickScriptFunc && //
+                this.onClickHandler &&
+                !this._props.onBrowseClickScript?.() &&
+                this.isContentActive() !== true) ||
+                this.isContentActive() === false)
+            ? 'none'
+            : this._pointerEvents;
     }
-    @computed get onPointerDownHandler() {
-        return this._props.onPointerDown?.() ?? ScriptCast(this.Document.onPointerDown);
+
+    // We need to use allrelatedLinks to get not just links to the document as a whole, but links to
+    // anchors that are not rendered as DocumentViews (marked as 'layout_unrendered' with their 'annotationOn' set to this document).  e.g.,
+    //     - PDF text regions are rendered as an Annotations without generating a DocumentView, '
+    //     - RTF selections are rendered via Prosemirror and have a mark which contains the Document ID for the annotation link
+    //     - and links to PDF/Web docs at a certain scroll location never create an explicit view.
+    // For each of these, we create LinkAnchorBox's on the border of the DocumentView.
+    @computed get directLinks() {
+        TraceMobx();
+        return LinkManager.Instance.getAllRelatedLinks(this.Document).filter(
+            link =>
+                (link.link_matchEmbeddings ? link.link_anchor_1 === this.Document : Doc.AreProtosEqual(link.link_anchor_1 as Doc, this.Document)) ||
+                (link.link_matchEmbeddings ? link.link_anchor_2 === this.Document : Doc.AreProtosEqual(link.link_anchor_2 as Doc, this.Document)) ||
+                ((link.link_anchor_1 as Doc)?.layout_unrendered && Doc.AreProtosEqual((link.link_anchor_1 as Doc)?.annotationOn as Doc, this.Document)) ||
+                ((link.link_anchor_2 as Doc)?.layout_unrendered && Doc.AreProtosEqual((link.link_anchor_2 as Doc)?.annotationOn as Doc, this.Document))
+        );
     }
-    @computed get onPointerUpHandler() {
-        return this._props.onPointerUp?.() ?? ScriptCast(this.Document.onPointerUp);
+    @computed get _allLinks() {
+        TraceMobx();
+        return LinkManager.Instance.getAllRelatedLinks(this.Document).filter(link => !link.link_matchEmbeddings || link.link_anchor_1 === this.Document || link.link_anchor_2 === this.Document);
+    }
+
+    @computed get filteredLinks() {
+        return DocUtils.FilterDocs(this.directLinks, this._props.childFilters?.() ?? [], []).filter(d => d.link_displayLine || Doc.UserDoc().showLinkLines);
     }
 
     componentWillUnmount() {
         this.cleanupHandlers(true);
     }
-    @observable _mounted = false; // turn off all pointer events if component isn't yet mounted (enables nested Docs in alternate UI textboxes that appear on hover which otherwise would grab focus from the text box, reverting to the original UI )
 
     componentDidMount() {
         runInAction(() => (this._mounted = true));
@@ -380,7 +250,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
             { fireImmediately: true }
         );
         this._disposers.pointerevents = reaction(
-            () => this._props.styleProvider?.(this.Document, this.styleProps, StyleProp.PointerEvents),
+            () => this.style(this.Document, StyleProp.PointerEvents),
             pointerevents => (this._pointerEvents = pointerevents),
             { fireImmediately: true }
         );
@@ -406,18 +276,19 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
     }
 
     startDragging(x: number, y: number, dropAction: dropActionType, hideSource = false) {
-        if (this._mainCont.current) {
+        const docView = this._docView;
+        if (this._mainCont.current && docView) {
             const views = SelectionManager.Views.filter(dv => dv.ContentDiv);
-            const selected = views.length > 1 && views.some(dv => dv.Document === this.Document) ? views : [this.DocumentView()];
+            const selected = views.length > 1 && views.some(dv => dv.Document === this.Document) ? views : [docView];
             const dragData = new DragManager.DocumentDragData(selected.map(dv => dv.Document));
-            const screenXf = this.DocumentView().screenToViewTransform();
+            const screenXf = docView.screenToViewTransform();
             const [left, top] = screenXf.inverse().transformPoint(0, 0);
             dragData.offset = screenXf.transformDirection(x - left, y - top);
             dragData.dropAction = dropAction;
             dragData.treeViewDoc = this._props.treeViewDoc;
             dragData.removeDocument = this._props.removeDocument;
             dragData.moveDocument = this._props.moveDocument;
-            dragData.draggedViews = [this.DocumentView()];
+            dragData.draggedViews = [docView];
             dragData.canEmbed = this.Document.dragAction ?? this._props.dragAction ? true : false;
             DragManager.StartDocumentDrag(
                 selected.map(dv => dv.ContentDiv!),
@@ -434,12 +305,10 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         if (!StrCast(this.layoutDoc._layout_showTitle)) this.layoutDoc._layout_showTitle = 'title';
         setTimeout(() => this._titleRef.current?.setIsFocused(true)); // use timeout in case title wasn't shown to allow re-render so that titleref will be defined
     };
-
-    public static addDocTabFunc: (doc: Doc, location: OpenWhere) => boolean = returnFalse;
-
     onClick = action((e: React.MouseEvent | React.PointerEvent) => {
         if (this._props.isGroupActive?.() === 'child' && !this._props.isDocumentActive?.()) return;
-        if (!this.Document.ignoreClick && this._props.renderDepth >= 0 && Utils.isClick(e.clientX, e.clientY, this._downX, this._downY, this._downTime)) {
+        const documentView = this._docView;
+        if (documentView && !this.Document.ignoreClick && this._props.renderDepth >= 0 && Utils.isClick(e.clientX, e.clientY, this._downX, this._downY, this._downTime)) {
             let stopPropagate = true;
             let preventDefault = true;
             !this.layoutDoc._keepZWhenDragged && this._props.bringToFront(this.Document);
@@ -451,7 +320,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                     const func = () => this.onDoubleClickHandler.script.run( {
                             this: this.Document,
                             scriptContext: this._props.scriptContext,
-                            documentView: this.DocumentView(),
+                            documentView,
                             clientX, clientY,  altKey,  shiftKey,  ctrlKey,
                             value: undefined,
                         }, console.log  );
@@ -482,7 +351,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                                 this: this.Document,
                                 _readOnly_: false,
                                 scriptContext: this._props.scriptContext,
-                                documentView: this.DocumentView(),
+                                documentView,
                                 clientX,
                                 clientY,
                                 shiftKey,
@@ -506,7 +375,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                 const sendToBack = e.altKey;
                 this._singleClickFunc =
                     // prettier-ignore
-                    clickFunc ?? (() => (sendToBack ? this.DocumentView()._props.bringToFront(this.Document, true) : 
+                    clickFunc ?? (() => (sendToBack ? documentView._props.bringToFront(this.Document, true) : 
                                                       this._componentView?.select?.(e.ctrlKey || e.metaKey, e.shiftKey) ?? 
                                         this._props.select(e.ctrlKey||e.shiftKey, e.metaKey)));
                 const waitFordblclick = this._props.waitForDoubleClickToClick?.() ?? this.Document.waitForDoubleClickToClick;
@@ -525,12 +394,8 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
 
     onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent): void => {
         if (this._props.isGroupActive?.() === 'child' && !this._props.isDocumentActive?.()) return;
-        this._longPressSelector = setTimeout(() => {
-            if (DocumentView.LongPress) {
-                this._props.select(false);
-            }
-        }, 1000);
-        if (!GestureOverlay.DownDocView) GestureOverlay.DownDocView = this.DocumentView();
+        this._longPressSelector = setTimeout(() => DocumentView.LongPress && this._props.select(false), 1000);
+        if (!GestureOverlay.DownDocView) GestureOverlay.DownDocView = this._docView;
 
         this._downX = e.clientX;
         this._downY = e.clientY;
@@ -541,7 +406,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
             if (
                 // prettier-ignore
                 (this._props.isDocumentActive?.() || this._props.isContentActive?.()) &&
-                !this._props.onBrowseClick?.() &&
+                !this._props.onBrowseClickScript?.() &&
                 !this.Document.ignoreClick &&
                 e.button === 0 &&
                 !Doc.IsInMyOverlay(this.layoutDoc)
@@ -587,38 +452,39 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         if (DocumentView.LongPress) e.preventDefault();
     };
 
-    @undoBatch
-    toggleFollowLink = (zoom?: boolean, setTargetToggle?: boolean): void => {
+    toggleFollowLink = undoable((zoom?: boolean, setTargetToggle?: boolean): void => {
         const hadOnClick = this.Document.onClick;
         this.noOnClick();
         this.Document.onClick = hadOnClick ? undefined : FollowLinkScript();
         this.Document.waitForDoubleClickToClick = hadOnClick ? undefined : 'never';
-    };
-    @undoBatch
-    followLinkOnClick = () => {
+    }, 'toggle follow link');
+
+    followLinkOnClick = undoable(() => {
         this.Document.ignoreClick = false;
         this.Document.onClick = FollowLinkScript();
         this.Document.followLinkToggle = false;
         this.Document.followLinkZoom = false;
         this.Document.followLinkLocation = undefined;
-    };
-    @undoBatch
-    noOnClick = () => {
-        this.Document.ignoreClick = false;
-        this.Document.onClick = Doc.GetProto(this.Document).onClick = undefined;
-    };
-
-    @undoBatch deleteClicked = () => this._props.removeDocument?.(this.Document);
-    @undoBatch setToggleDetail = () =>
-        (this.Document.onClick = ScriptField.MakeScript(
-            `toggleDetail(documentView, "${StrCast(this.Document.layout_fieldKey)
-                .replace('layout_', '')
-                .replace(/^layout$/, 'detail')}")`,
-            { documentView: 'any' }
-        ));
+    }, 'follow link on click');
 
-    @undoBatch
-    drop = (e: Event, de: DragManager.DropEvent) => {
+    noOnClick = undoable(() => {
+        this.Document.ignoreClick = false;
+        this.Document.onClick = this.Document[DocData].onClick = undefined;
+    }, 'default on click');
+
+    deleteClicked = undoable(() => this._props.removeDocument?.(this.Document), 'delete doc');
+    setToggleDetail = undoable(
+        () =>
+            (this.Document.onClick = ScriptField.MakeScript(
+                `toggleDetail(documentView, "${StrCast(this.Document.layout_fieldKey)
+                    .replace('layout_', '')
+                    .replace(/^layout$/, 'detail')}")`,
+                { documentView: 'any' }
+            )),
+        'set toggle detail'
+    );
+
+    drop = undoable((e: Event, de: DragManager.DropEvent) => {
         if (this._props.dontRegisterView || this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(LinkAnchorBox.name)) return false;
         if (this.Document === Doc.ActiveDashboard) {
             e.stopPropagation();
@@ -642,7 +508,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                     de.complete.linkDocument = DocUtils.MakeLink(linkdrag.linkSourceDoc, dropDoc, {}, undefined, [de.x, de.y - 50]);
                     if (de.complete.linkDocument) {
                         de.complete.linkDocument.layout_isSvg = true;
-                        this.DocumentView().CollectionFreeFormView?.addDocument(de.complete.linkDocument);
+                        this._docView?.CollectionFreeFormView?.addDocument(de.complete.linkDocument);
                     }
                 }
                 e.stopPropagation();
@@ -650,11 +516,10 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
             }
         }
         return false;
-    };
+    }, 'drop doc');
 
-    @undoBatch
-    makeIntoPortal = () => {
-        const portalLink = this.allLinks.find(d => d.link_anchor_1 === this.Document && d.link_relationship === 'portal to:portal from');
+    makeIntoPortal = undoable(() => {
+        const portalLink = this._allLinks.find(d => d.link_anchor_1 === this.Document && d.link_relationship === 'portal to:portal from');
         if (!portalLink) {
             DocUtils.MakeLink(
                 this.Document,
@@ -670,7 +535,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         }
         this.Document.followLinkLocation = OpenWhere.lightbox;
         this.Document.onClick = FollowLinkScript();
-    };
+    }, 'make into portal');
 
     importDocument = () => {
         const input = document.createElement('input');
@@ -716,7 +581,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
 
         if (e && !(e.nativeEvent as any).dash) {
             const onDisplay = () => {
-                if (this.Document.type !== DocumentType.MAP) DocumentViewInternal.SelectAfterContextMenu && !this._props.isSelected() && SelectionManager.SelectView(this.DocumentView(), false); // on a mac, the context menu is triggered on mouse down, but a YouTube video becaomes interactive when selected which means that the context menu won't show up.  by delaying the selection until hopefully after the pointer up, the context menu will appear.
+                if (this.Document.type !== DocumentType.MAP) DocumentViewInternal.SelectAfterContextMenu && this._props.select(false); // on a mac, the context menu is triggered on mouse down, but a YouTube video becaomes interactive when selected which means that the context menu won't show up.  by delaying the selection until hopefully after the pointer up, the context menu will appear.
                 setTimeout(() => simulateMouseClick(document.elementFromPoint(e.clientX, e.clientY), e.clientX, e.clientY, e.screenX, e.screenY));
             };
             if (navigator.userAgent.includes('Macintosh')) {
@@ -811,7 +676,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         const constantItems: ContextMenuProps[] = [];
         if (!Doc.IsSystem(this.Document) && this.Document._type_collection !== CollectionViewType.Docking) {
             constantItems.push({ description: 'Zip Export', icon: 'download', event: async () => Doc.Zip(this.Document) });
-            (this.Document._type_collection !== CollectionViewType.Docking || !Doc.noviceMode) && constantItems.push({ description: 'Share', event: () => SharingManager.Instance.open(this.DocumentView()), icon: 'users' });
+            (this.Document._type_collection !== CollectionViewType.Docking || !Doc.noviceMode) && constantItems.push({ description: 'Share', event: () => SharingManager.Instance.open(this._docView), icon: 'users' });
             if (this._props.removeDocument && Doc.ActiveDashboard !== this.Document) {
                 // need option to gray out menu items ... preferably with a '?' that explains why they're grayed out (eg., no permissions)
                 constantItems.push({ description: 'Close', event: this.deleteClicked, icon: 'times' });
@@ -877,63 +742,16 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         cm.displayMenu((e?.pageX || pageX || 0) - 15, (e?.pageY || pageY || 0) - 15, undefined, undefined, undefined);
     };
 
-    @computed get _rootSelected() {
-        return this._props.isSelected() || BoolCast(this._props.TemplateDataDocument && this._props.rootSelected?.());
-    }
     rootSelected = () => this._rootSelected;
     panelHeight = () => this._props.PanelHeight() - this.headerMargin;
     screenToLocalContent = () => this._props.ScreenToLocalTransform().translate(0, -this.headerMargin);
-    onClickFunc: any = () => (this.disableClickScriptFunc ? undefined : this.onClickHandler);
+    onClickFunc = this.disableClickScriptFunc ? undefined : () => this.onClickHandler;
     setHeight = (height: number) => !this._props.suppressSetHeight && (this.layoutDoc._height = height);
-    setContentView = action((view: { getAnchor?: (addAsAnnotation: boolean) => Doc; forward?: () => boolean; back?: () => boolean }) => (this._componentView = view));
-    @observable _isContentActive: boolean | undefined = undefined;
-
+    setContentView = action((view: ViewBoxInterface) => (this._componentView = view));
     isContentActive = (): boolean | undefined => this._isContentActive;
     childFilters = () => [...this._props.childFilters(), ...StrListCast(this.layoutDoc.childFilters)];
 
-    /// disable pointer events on content when there's an enabled onClick script (but not the browse script) and the contents aren't forced active, or if contents are marked inactive
-    @computed get _contentPointerEvents() {
-        TraceMobx();
-        return this._props.contentPointerEvents ??
-            ((!this.disableClickScriptFunc && //
-                this.onClickHandler &&
-                !this._props.onBrowseClick?.() &&
-                this.isContentActive() !== true) ||
-                this.isContentActive() === false)
-            ? 'none'
-            : this.pointerEvents;
-    }
     contentPointerEvents = () => this._contentPointerEvents;
-    @computed get contents() {
-        TraceMobx();
-        const isInk = this.layoutDoc._layout_isSvg && !this._props.LayoutTemplateString;
-        const noBackground = this.Document.isGroup && !this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) && (!this.layoutDoc.backgroundColor || this.layoutDoc.backgroundColor === 'transparent');
-        return (
-            <div
-                className="documentView-contentsView"
-                style={{
-                    pointerEvents: (isInk || noBackground ? 'none' : this.contentPointerEvents()) ?? (this._mounted ? 'all' : 'none'),
-                    height: this.headerMargin ? `calc(100% - ${this.headerMargin}px)` : undefined,
-                }}>
-                <DocumentContentsView
-                    key={1}
-                    {...this.styleProps}
-                    fieldKey={this.finalLayoutKey}
-                    pointerEvents={this.contentPointerEvents}
-                    setContentView={this.setContentView}
-                    childFilters={this.childFilters}
-                    PanelHeight={this.panelHeight}
-                    setHeight={this.setHeight}
-                    isContentActive={this.isContentActive}
-                    ScreenToLocalTransform={this.screenToLocalContent}
-                    rootSelected={this.rootSelected}
-                    onClick={this.onClickFunc}
-                    setTitleFocus={this.setTitleFocus}
-                />
-                {this.layoutDoc.layout_hideAllLinks ? null : this.allLinkEndpoints}
-            </div>
-        );
-    }
 
     anchorPanelWidth = () => this._props.PanelWidth() || 1;
     anchorPanelHeight = () => this._props.PanelHeight() || 1;
@@ -950,33 +768,12 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
         }
         return this._props.styleProvider?.(doc, props, property);
     };
-    // We need to use allrelatedLinks to get not just links to the document as a whole, but links to
-    // anchors that are not rendered as DocumentViews (marked as 'layout_unrendered' with their 'annotationOn' set to this document).  e.g.,
-    //     - PDF text regions are rendered as an Annotations without generating a DocumentView, '
-    //     - RTF selections are rendered via Prosemirror and have a mark which contains the Document ID for the annotation link
-    //     - and links to PDF/Web docs at a certain scroll location never create an explicit view.
-    // For each of these, we create LinkAnchorBox's on the border of the DocumentView.
-    @computed get directLinks() {
-        TraceMobx();
-        return LinkManager.Instance.getAllRelatedLinks(this.Document).filter(
-            link =>
-                (link.link_matchEmbeddings ? link.link_anchor_1 === this.Document : Doc.AreProtosEqual(link.link_anchor_1 as Doc, this.Document)) ||
-                (link.link_matchEmbeddings ? link.link_anchor_2 === this.Document : Doc.AreProtosEqual(link.link_anchor_2 as Doc, this.Document)) ||
-                ((link.link_anchor_1 as Doc)?.layout_unrendered && Doc.AreProtosEqual((link.link_anchor_1 as Doc)?.annotationOn as Doc, this.Document)) ||
-                ((link.link_anchor_2 as Doc)?.layout_unrendered && Doc.AreProtosEqual((link.link_anchor_2 as Doc)?.annotationOn as Doc, this.Document))
-        );
-    }
-    @computed get allLinks() {
-        TraceMobx();
-        return LinkManager.Instance.getAllRelatedLinks(this.Document);
-    }
-    hideLink = computedFn((link: Doc) => () => (link.link_displayLine = false));
-    @computed get allLinkEndpoints() {
+
+    removeLinkByHiding = (link: Doc) => () => (link.link_displayLine = false);
+    allLinkEndpoints = () => {
         // the small blue dots that mark the endpoints of links
-        TraceMobx();
         if (this._componentView instanceof KeyValueBox || this._props.hideLinkAnchors || this.layoutDoc.layout_hideLinkAnchors || this._props.dontRegisterView || this.layoutDoc.layout_unrendered) return null;
-        const filtered = DocUtils.FilterDocs(this.directLinks, this._props.childFilters?.() ?? [], []).filter(d => d.link_displayLine || Doc.UserDoc().showLinkLines);
-        return filtered.map(link => (
+        return this.filteredLinks.map(link => (
             <div className="documentView-anchorCont" key={link[Id]}>
                 <DocumentView
                     {...this._props}
@@ -990,107 +787,54 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                     hideCaptions={true}
                     hideLinkAnchors={true}
                     layout_fitWidth={returnTrue}
-                    removeDocument={this.hideLink(link)}
+                    removeDocument={this.removeLinkByHiding(link)}
                     styleProvider={this.anchorStyleProvider}
                     LayoutTemplate={undefined}
                     LayoutTemplateString={LinkAnchorBox.LayoutString(`link_anchor_${LinkManager.anchorIndex(link, this.Document)}`)}
                 />
             </div>
         ));
-    }
-
-    static recordAudioAnnotation(dataDoc: Doc, field: string, onRecording?: (stop: () => void) => void, onEnd?: () => void) {
-        let gumStream: any;
-        let recorder: any;
-        navigator.mediaDevices
-            .getUserMedia({
-                audio: true,
-            })
-            .then(function (stream) {
-                let audioTextAnnos = Cast(dataDoc[field + '_audioAnnotations_text'], listSpec('string'), null);
-                if (audioTextAnnos) audioTextAnnos.push('');
-                else audioTextAnnos = dataDoc[field + '_audioAnnotations_text'] = new List<string>(['']);
-                DictationManager.Controls.listen({
-                    interimHandler: value => (audioTextAnnos[audioTextAnnos.length - 1] = value),
-                    continuous: { indefinite: false },
-                }).then(results => {
-                    if (results && [DictationManager.Controls.Infringed].includes(results)) {
-                        DictationManager.Controls.stop();
-                    }
-                    onEnd?.();
-                });
+    };
 
-                gumStream = stream;
-                recorder = new MediaRecorder(stream);
-                recorder.ondataavailable = async (e: any) => {
-                    const [{ result }] = await Networking.UploadFilesToServer({ file: e.data });
-                    if (!(result instanceof Error)) {
-                        const audioField = new AudioField(result.accessPaths.agnostic.client);
-                        const audioAnnos = Cast(dataDoc[field + '_audioAnnotations'], listSpec(AudioField), null);
-                        if (audioAnnos === undefined) {
-                            dataDoc[field + '_audioAnnotations'] = new List([audioField]);
-                        } else {
-                            audioAnnos.push(audioField);
-                        }
-                    }
-                };
-                //runInAction(() => (dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'recording'));
-                recorder.start();
-                const stopFunc = () => {
-                    recorder.stop();
-                    DictationManager.Controls.stop(false);
-                    runInAction(() => (dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'stopped'));
-                    gumStream.getAudioTracks()[0].stop();
-                };
-                if (onRecording) onRecording(stopFunc);
-                else setTimeout(stopFunc, 5000);
-            });
-    }
-    playAnnotation = () => {
-        const self = this;
-        const audioAnnoState = this.dataDoc.audioAnnoState ?? 'stopped';
-        const audioAnnos = Cast(this.dataDoc[this.LayoutFieldKey + '_audioAnnotations'], listSpec(AudioField), null);
-        const anno = audioAnnos?.lastElement();
-        if (anno instanceof AudioField) {
-            switch (audioAnnoState) {
-                case 'stopped':
-                    this.dataDoc[AudioPlay] = new Howl({
-                        src: [anno.url.href],
-                        format: ['mp3'],
-                        autoplay: true,
-                        loop: false,
-                        volume: 0.5,
-                        onend: action(() => (self.dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'stopped')),
-                    });
-                    this.dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'playing';
-                    break;
-                case 'playing':
-                    this.dataDoc[AudioPlay]?.stop();
-                    this.dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'stopped';
-                    break;
-            }
-        }
+    viewBoxContents = () => {
+        TraceMobx();
+        const isInk = this.layoutDoc._layout_isSvg && !this._props.LayoutTemplateString;
+        const noBackground = this.Document.isGroup && !this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) && (!this.layoutDoc.backgroundColor || this.layoutDoc.backgroundColor === 'transparent');
+        return (
+            <div
+                className="documentView-contentsView"
+                style={{
+                    pointerEvents: (isInk || noBackground ? 'none' : this.contentPointerEvents()) ?? (this._mounted ? 'all' : 'none'),
+                    height: this.headerMargin ? `calc(100% - ${this.headerMargin}px)` : undefined,
+                }}>
+                <DocumentContentsView
+                    {...this._props}
+                    layoutFieldKey={StrCast(this.Document.layout_fieldKey, 'layout')}
+                    pointerEvents={this.contentPointerEvents}
+                    setContentViewBox={this.setContentView}
+                    childFilters={this.childFilters}
+                    PanelHeight={this.panelHeight}
+                    setHeight={this.setHeight}
+                    isContentActive={this.isContentActive}
+                    ScreenToLocalTransform={this.screenToLocalContent}
+                    rootSelected={this.rootSelected}
+                    onClickScript={this.onClickFunc}
+                    setTitleFocus={this.setTitleFocus}
+                />
+                {this.layoutDoc.layout_hideAllLinks ? null : this.allLinkEndpoints()}
+            </div>
+        );
     };
 
     captionStyleProvider = (doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>, property: string) => this._props?.styleProvider?.(doc, props, property + ':caption');
-    @observable _changingTitleField = false;
-    @observable _dropDownInnerWidth = 0;
-    fieldsDropdown = (inputOptions: string[], dropdownWidth: number, placeholder: string, onChange: (val: string | number) => void, onClose: () => void) => {
-        const filteredOptions = new Set(inputOptions);
-        const scaling = this.titleHeight / 30; /* height of Dropdown */
-        Object.entries(DocOptions)
-            .filter(opts => opts[1].filterable)
-            .forEach((pair: [string, FInfo]) => filteredOptions.add(pair[0]));
-        filteredOptions.add(StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_showTitle));
-        const options = Array.from(filteredOptions)
-            .filter(f => f)
-            .map(facet => ({ val: facet, text: facet }));
+    fieldsDropdown = (reqdFields: string[], dropdownWidth: number, placeholder: string, onChange: (val: string | number) => void, onClose: () => void) => {
+        const filteredFields = Object.entries(DocOptions).reduce((set, [field, opts]) => (opts.filterable ? set.add(field) : set), new Set(reqdFields));
         return (
             <div style={{ width: dropdownWidth }}>
                 <div
-                    ref={action((r: any) => r && (this._dropDownInnerWidth = Number(getComputedStyle(r).width.replace('px', ''))))}
+                    ref={action((r: any) => r && (this._titleDropDownInnerWidth = Number(getComputedStyle(r).width.replace('px', ''))))}
                     onPointerDown={action(e => (this._changingTitleField = true))}
-                    style={{ width: 'max-content', transformOrigin: 'left', transform: `scale(${scaling})` }}>
+                    style={{ width: 'max-content', transformOrigin: 'left', transform: `scale(${this.titleHeight / 30 /* height of Dropdown */})` }}>
                     <Dropdown
                         activeChanged={action(isOpen => !isOpen && (this._changingTitleField = false))}
                         selectedVal={placeholder}
@@ -1100,7 +844,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                         type={Type.TERT}
                         closeOnSelect={true}
                         dropdownType={DropdownType.SELECT}
-                        items={options}
+                        items={Array.from(filteredFields).map(facet => ({ val: facet, text: facet }))}
                         width={100}
                         fillWidth
                     />
@@ -1108,43 +852,24 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
             </div>
         );
     };
-    @computed get innards() {
-        TraceMobx();
+    /**
+     * displays a 'title' at the top of a document. The title contents default to the 'title' field, but can be changed to one or more fields by
+     * setting layout_showTitle using the format:   field1[;field2[...][:hover]]
+     * from the UI, this is done by clicking the title field and prefixin the format with '#'.  eg.,  #field1[;field2;...][:hover]
+     **/
+    titleView = () => {
         const showTitle = this.layout_showTitle?.split(':')[0];
         const showTitleHover = this.layout_showTitle?.includes(':hover');
-        const captionView = !this.layout_showCaption ? null : (
-            <div
-                className="documentView-captionWrapper"
-                style={{
-                    pointerEvents: this.Document.ignoreClick ? 'none' : this.isContentActive() || this._props.isDocumentActive?.() ? 'all' : undefined,
-                    background: StrCast(this.layoutDoc._backgroundColor, 'rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'),
-                    color: lightOrDark(StrCast(this.layoutDoc._backgroundColor, 'black')),
-                }}>
-                <FormattedTextBox
-                    {...this._props}
-                    yPadding={10}
-                    xPadding={10}
-                    fieldKey={this.layout_showCaption}
-                    styleProvider={this.captionStyleProvider}
-                    dontRegisterView={true}
-                    noSidebar={true}
-                    dontScale={true}
-                    renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth}
-                    isContentActive={this.isContentActive}
-                />
-            </div>
-        );
-        const targetDoc = showTitle?.startsWith('_') ? this.layoutDoc : this.Document;
-        const background = StrCast(
-            this.layoutDoc.layout_headingColor,
-            StrCast(SharingManager.Instance.users.find(u => u.user.email === this.dataDoc.author)?.sharingDoc.headingColor, StrCast(Doc.SharingDoc().headingColor, SettingsManager.userBackgroundColor))
-        );
-        const dropdownWidth = this._titleRef.current?._editing || this._changingTitleField ? Math.max(10, (this._dropDownInnerWidth * this.titleHeight) / 30) : 0;
-        const sidebarWidthPercent = +StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_sidebarWidthPercent).replace('%', '');
-        // displays a 'title' at the top of a document. The title contents default to the 'title' field, but can be changed to one or more fields by
-        // setting layout_showTitle using the format:   field1[;field2[...][:hover]]
-        // from the UI, this is done by clicking the title field and prefixin the format with '#'.  eg.,  #field1[;field2;...][:hover]
-        const titleView = !showTitle ? null : (
+
+        const targetDoc = showTitle?.startsWith('_') ? this.layoutDoc : this.Document;
+        const background = StrCast(
+            this.layoutDoc.layout_headingColor,
+            StrCast(SharingManager.Instance.users.find(u => u.user.email === this.dataDoc.author)?.sharingDoc.headingColor, StrCast(Doc.SharingDoc().headingColor, SettingsManager.userBackgroundColor))
+        );
+        const dropdownWidth = this._titleRef.current?._editing || this._changingTitleField ? Math.max(10, (this._titleDropDownInnerWidth * this.titleHeight) / 30) : 0;
+        const sidebarWidthPercent = +StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_sidebarWidthPercent).replace('%', '');
+
+        return !showTitle ? null : (
             <div
                 className={`documentView-titleWrapper${showTitleHover ? '-hover' : ''}`}
                 key="title"
@@ -1160,7 +885,7 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                 {!dropdownWidth
                     ? null
                     : this.fieldsDropdown(
-                          [],
+                          [StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_showTitle)],
                           dropdownWidth,
                           StrCast(this.layoutDoc.layout_showTitle).split(':')[0],
                           action((field: string | number) => {
@@ -1206,19 +931,36 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                 </div>
             </div>
         );
-        return this._props.hideTitle || (!showTitle && !this.layout_showCaption) ? (
-            this.contents
-        ) : (
-            <div className="documentView-styleWrapper">
-                {titleView}
-                {this.contents}
-                {captionView}
+    };
+
+    captionView = () => {
+        return !this.layout_showCaption ? null : (
+            <div
+                className="documentView-captionWrapper"
+                style={{
+                    pointerEvents: this.Document.ignoreClick ? 'none' : this.isContentActive() || this._props.isDocumentActive?.() ? 'all' : undefined,
+                    background: StrCast(this.layoutDoc._backgroundColor, 'rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'),
+                    color: lightOrDark(StrCast(this.layoutDoc._backgroundColor, 'black')),
+                }}>
+                <FormattedTextBox
+                    {...this._props}
+                    yPadding={10}
+                    xPadding={10}
+                    fieldKey={this.layout_showCaption}
+                    styleProvider={this.captionStyleProvider}
+                    dontRegisterView={true}
+                    noSidebar={true}
+                    dontScale={true}
+                    renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth}
+                    isContentActive={this.isContentActive}
+                />
             </div>
         );
-    }
+    };
 
     renderDoc = (style: object) => {
         TraceMobx();
+        const showTitle = this.layout_showTitle?.split(':')[0];
         return !DocCast(this.Document) || GetEffectiveAcl(this.dataDoc) === AclPrivate
             ? null
             : this.docContents ?? (
@@ -1234,49 +976,22 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                           fontFamily: StrCast(this.Document._text_fontFamily, 'inherit'),
                           fontSize: Cast(this.Document._text_fontSize, 'string', null),
                           transform: this._animateScalingTo ? `scale(${this._animateScalingTo})` : undefined,
-                          transition: !this._animateScalingTo ? StrCast(this.Document.dataTransition) : `transform ${this.animateScaleTime / 1000}s ease-${this._animateScalingTo < 1 ? 'in' : 'out'}`,
+                          transition: !this._animateScalingTo ? StrCast(this.Document.dataTransition) : `transform ${this.animateScaleTime() / 1000}s ease-${this._animateScalingTo < 1 ? 'in' : 'out'}`,
                       }}>
-                      {this.innards}
+                      {this._props.hideTitle || (!showTitle && !this.layout_showCaption) ? (
+                          this.viewBoxContents()
+                      ) : (
+                          <div className="documentView-styleWrapper">
+                              {this.titleView()}
+                              {this.viewBoxContents()}
+                              {this.captionView()}
+                          </div>
+                      )}
                       {this.widgetDecorations ?? null}
                   </div>
               );
     };
 
-    /**
-     * returns an entrance animation effect function to wrap a JSX element
-     * @param presEffectDoc presentation effects document that specifies the animation effect parameters
-     * @returns a function that will wrap a JSX animation element wrapping any JSX element
-     */
-    public static AnimationEffect(renderDoc: JSX.Element, presEffectDoc: Opt<Doc>, root: Doc) {
-        const dir = presEffectDoc?.presentation_effectDirection ?? presEffectDoc?.followLinkAnimDirection;
-        const effectProps = {
-            left: dir === PresEffectDirection.Left,
-            right: dir === PresEffectDirection.Right,
-            top: dir === PresEffectDirection.Top,
-            bottom: dir === PresEffectDirection.Bottom,
-            opposite: true,
-            delay: 0,
-            duration: Cast(presEffectDoc?.presentation_transition, 'number', Cast(presEffectDoc?.followLinkTransitionTime, 'number', null)),
-        };
-        //prettier-ignore
-        switch (StrCast(presEffectDoc?.presentation_effect, StrCast(presEffectDoc?.followLinkAnimEffect))) {
-            default: 
-            case PresEffect.None:       return renderDoc;
-            case PresEffect.Zoom:       return <Zoom {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Zoom>;
-            case PresEffect.Fade:       return <Fade {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Fade>;
-            case PresEffect.Flip:       return <Flip {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Flip>;
-            case PresEffect.Rotate:     return <Rotate {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Rotate>;
-            case PresEffect.Bounce:     return <Bounce {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Bounce>;
-            case PresEffect.Roll:       return <Roll {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Roll>;
-            case PresEffect.Lightspeed: return <JackInTheBox {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</JackInTheBox>;
-        }
-    }
-    @computed get highlighting() {
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.Document, { ...this._props, fieldKey: '' }, StyleProp.Highlighting);
-    }
-    @computed get borderPath() {
-        return this._props.styleProvider?.(this.Document, { ...this._props, fieldKey: '' }, StyleProp.BorderPath);
-    }
     render() {
         TraceMobx();
         const highlighting = this.highlighting;
@@ -1304,10 +1019,10 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
                 onClick={this.onClick}
                 onPointerEnter={e => (!SnappingManager.IsDragging || SnappingManager.CanEmbed) && Doc.BrushDoc(this.Document)}
                 onPointerOver={e => (!SnappingManager.IsDragging || SnappingManager.CanEmbed) && Doc.BrushDoc(this.Document)}
-                onPointerLeave={e => !isParentOf(this.ContentDiv, document.elementFromPoint(e.nativeEvent.x, e.nativeEvent.y)) && Doc.UnBrushDoc(this.Document)}
+                onPointerLeave={e => !isParentOf(this._contentDiv, document.elementFromPoint(e.nativeEvent.x, e.nativeEvent.y)) && Doc.UnBrushDoc(this.Document)}
                 style={{
                     borderRadius: this.borderRounding,
-                    pointerEvents: this.pointerEvents === 'visiblePainted' ? 'none' : this.pointerEvents, // visible painted means that the underlying doc contents are irregular and will process their own pointer events (otherwise, the contents are expected to fill the entire doc view box so we can handle pointer events here)
+                    pointerEvents: this._pointerEvents === 'visiblePainted' ? 'none' : this._pointerEvents, // visible painted means that the underlying doc contents are irregular and will process their own pointer events (otherwise, the contents are expected to fill the entire doc view box so we can handle pointer events here)
                 }}>
                 <>
                     {this._componentView instanceof KeyValueBox ? renderDoc : DocumentViewInternal.AnimationEffect(renderDoc, this.Document[Animation], this.Document)}
@@ -1316,176 +1031,124 @@ export class DocumentViewInternal extends DocComponent<DocumentViewInternalProps
             </div>
         );
     }
-}
 
-@observer
-export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
-    public static ROOT_DIV = 'documentView-effectsWrapper';
-
-    constructor(props: any) {
-        super(props);
-        makeObservable(this);
+    /**
+     * returns an entrance animation effect function to wrap a JSX element
+     * @param presEffectDoc presentation effects document that specifies the animation effect parameters
+     * @returns a function that will wrap a JSX animation element wrapping any JSX element
+     */
+    public static AnimationEffect(renderDoc: JSX.Element, presEffectDoc: Opt<Doc>, root: Doc) {
+        const dir = presEffectDoc?.presentation_effectDirection ?? presEffectDoc?.followLinkAnimDirection;
+        const effectProps = {
+            left: dir === PresEffectDirection.Left,
+            right: dir === PresEffectDirection.Right,
+            top: dir === PresEffectDirection.Top,
+            bottom: dir === PresEffectDirection.Bottom,
+            opposite: true,
+            delay: 0,
+            duration: Cast(presEffectDoc?.presentation_transition, 'number', Cast(presEffectDoc?.followLinkTransitionTime, 'number', null)),
+        };
+        //prettier-ignore
+        switch (StrCast(presEffectDoc?.presentation_effect, StrCast(presEffectDoc?.followLinkAnimEffect))) {
+            default: 
+            case PresEffect.None:       return renderDoc;
+            case PresEffect.Zoom:       return <Zoom {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Zoom>;
+            case PresEffect.Fade:       return <Fade {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Fade>;
+            case PresEffect.Flip:       return <Flip {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Flip>;
+            case PresEffect.Rotate:     return <Rotate {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Rotate>;
+            case PresEffect.Bounce:     return <Bounce {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Bounce>;
+            case PresEffect.Roll:       return <Roll {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</Roll>;
+            case PresEffect.Lightspeed: return <JackInTheBox {...effectProps}>{renderDoc}</JackInTheBox>;
+        }
     }
+    public static recordAudioAnnotation(dataDoc: Doc, field: string, onRecording?: (stop: () => void) => void, onEnd?: () => void) {
+        let gumStream: any;
+        let recorder: any;
+        navigator.mediaDevices
+            .getUserMedia({
+                audio: true,
+            })
+            .then(function (stream) {
+                let audioTextAnnos = Cast(dataDoc[field + '_audioAnnotations_text'], listSpec('string'), null);
+                if (audioTextAnnos) audioTextAnnos.push('');
+                else audioTextAnnos = dataDoc[field + '_audioAnnotations_text'] = new List<string>(['']);
+                DictationManager.Controls.listen({
+                    interimHandler: value => (audioTextAnnos[audioTextAnnos.length - 1] = value),
+                    continuous: { indefinite: false },
+                }).then(results => {
+                    if (results && [DictationManager.Controls.Infringed].includes(results)) {
+                        DictationManager.Controls.stop();
+                    }
+                    onEnd?.();
+                });
 
-    @observable _selected = false;
-    public get IsSelected() {
-        return this._selected;
-    }
-    public set IsSelected(val) {
-        runInAction(() => (this._selected = val));
-    }
-    @observable public static LongPress = false;
-    @computed public static get exploreMode() {
-        return () => (SnappingManager.ExploreMode ? ScriptField.MakeScript('CollectionBrowseClick(documentView, clientX, clientY)', { documentView: 'any', clientX: 'number', clientY: 'number' })! : undefined);
+                gumStream = stream;
+                recorder = new MediaRecorder(stream);
+                recorder.ondataavailable = async (e: any) => {
+                    const [{ result }] = await Networking.UploadFilesToServer({ file: e.data });
+                    if (!(result instanceof Error)) {
+                        const audioField = new AudioField(result.accessPaths.agnostic.client);
+                        const audioAnnos = Cast(dataDoc[field + '_audioAnnotations'], listSpec(AudioField), null);
+                        if (audioAnnos === undefined) {
+                            dataDoc[field + '_audioAnnotations'] = new List([audioField]);
+                        } else {
+                            audioAnnos.push(audioField);
+                        }
+                    }
+                };
+                //runInAction(() => (dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'recording'));
+                recorder.start();
+                const stopFunc = () => {
+                    recorder.stop();
+                    DictationManager.Controls.stop(false);
+                    runInAction(() => (dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'stopped'));
+                    gumStream.getAudioTracks()[0].stop();
+                };
+                if (onRecording) onRecording(stopFunc);
+                else setTimeout(stopFunc, 5000);
+            });
     }
-    @observable private _docViewInternal: DocumentViewInternal | undefined | null = undefined;
-    @observable private _htmlOverlayText: Opt<string> = undefined;
-    @observable private _isHovering = false;
-    private _htmlOverlayEffect: Opt<Doc>;
+}
 
-    public get displayName() {
-        return 'DocumentView(' + this.Document?.title + ')';
-    } // this makes mobx trace() statements more descriptive
+@observer
+export class DocumentView extends DocComponent<DocumentViewProps>() {
+    public static ROOT_DIV = 'documentView-effectsWrapper';
+    public get displayName() {  return 'DocumentView(' + this.Document?.title + ')';  } // prettier-ignore
     public ContentRef = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
-    public ViewTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined; // timer for res
-    public AnimEffectTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined; // timer for res
+    private _htmlOverlayEffect: Opt<Doc>;
     private _disposers: { [name: string]: IReactionDisposer } = {};
-    public clearViewTransition = () => {
-        this.ViewTimer && clearTimeout(this.ViewTimer);
-        this.layoutDoc._viewTransition = undefined;
-    };
-    playAnnotation = () => this._docViewInternal?.playAnnotation();
-    noOnClick = () => this._docViewInternal?.noOnClick();
-    makeIntoPortal = () => this._docViewInternal?.makeIntoPortal();
-    setToggleDetail = () => this._docViewInternal?.setToggleDetail();
-    onContextMenu = (e?: React.MouseEvent, pageX?: number, pageY?: number) => this._docViewInternal?.onContextMenu?.(e, pageX, pageY);
-    cleanupPointerEvents = () => this._docViewInternal?.cleanupPointerEvents();
-    public startDragging = (x: number, y: number, dropAction: dropActionType, hideSource = false) => this._docViewInternal?.startDragging(x, y, dropAction, hideSource);
+    private _viewTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined;
+    private _animEffectTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined;
 
-    public showContextMenu = (pageX: number, pageY: number) => this._docViewInternal?.onContextMenu(undefined, pageX, pageY);
-
-    public setTextHtmlOverlay = action((text: string | undefined, effect?: Doc) => {
-        this._htmlOverlayText = text;
-        this._htmlOverlayEffect = effect;
-    });
-    public setAnimateScaling = action((scale: number, time?: number) => {
-        if (this._docViewInternal) {
-            this._docViewInternal._animateScalingTo = scale;
-            this._docViewInternal._animateScaleTime = time;
-        }
-    });
-    public setAnimEffect = (presEffect: Doc, timeInMs: number, afterTrans?: () => void) => {
-        this.AnimEffectTimer && clearTimeout(this.AnimEffectTimer);
-        this.Document[Animation] = presEffect;
-        this.AnimEffectTimer = setTimeout(() => (this.Document[Animation] = undefined), timeInMs);
-    };
-    public setViewTransition = (transProp: string, timeInMs: number, afterTrans?: () => void, dataTrans = false) => {
-        this.layoutDoc._viewTransition = `${transProp} ${timeInMs}ms`;
-        if (dataTrans) this.Document._dataTransition = `${transProp} ${timeInMs}ms`;
-        this.ViewTimer && clearTimeout(this.ViewTimer);
-        return (this.ViewTimer = setTimeout(() => {
-            this.layoutDoc._viewTransition = undefined;
-            this.Document._dataTransition = 'inherit';
-            afterTrans?.();
-        }, timeInMs + 10));
-    };
-    public static SetViewTransition(docs: Doc[], transProp: string, timeInMs: number, afterTrans?: () => void, dataTrans = false) {
-        docs.forEach(doc => {
-            doc._viewTransition = `${transProp} ${timeInMs}ms`;
-            dataTrans && (doc.dataTransition = `${transProp} ${timeInMs}ms`);
-        });
-        return setTimeout(
-            () =>
-                docs.forEach(doc => {
-                    doc._viewTransition = undefined;
-                    dataTrans && (doc.dataTransition = 'inherit');
-                    afterTrans?.();
-                }),
-            timeInMs + 10
-        );
+    @computed public static get exploreMode() {
+        return () => (SnappingManager.ExploreMode ? ScriptField.MakeScript('CollectionBrowseClick(documentView, clientX, clientY)', { documentView: 'any', clientX: 'number', clientY: 'number' })! : undefined);
     }
 
-    // shows a stacking view collection (by default, but the user can change) of all documents linked to the source
-    public static showBackLinks(linkAnchor: Doc) {
-        const docId = Doc.CurrentUserEmail + Doc.GetProto(linkAnchor)[Id] + '-pivotish';
-        // prettier-ignore
-        DocServer.GetRefField(docId).then(docx =>
-            LightboxView.Instance.SetLightboxDoc(
-                (docx as Doc) ?? // reuse existing pivot view of documents, or else create a new collection
-                Docs.Create.StackingDocument([], { title: linkAnchor.title + '-pivot', _width: 500, _height: 500, target: linkAnchor, onViewMounted: ScriptField.MakeScript('updateLinkCollection(this, this.target)') }, docId)
-            )
-        );
+    constructor(props: DocumentViewProps) {
+        super(props);
+        makeObservable(this);
     }
-    toggleFollowLink = (zoom?: boolean, setTargetToggle?: boolean): void => this._docViewInternal?.toggleFollowLink(zoom, setTargetToggle);
 
-    get Document() {
-        return this._props.Document;
-    }
-    get topMost() {
-        return this._props.renderDepth === 0;
-    }
-    get dataDoc() {
-        return this._docViewInternal?.dataDoc ?? this.Document;
-    }
-    get ContentDiv() {
-        return this._docViewInternal?.ContentDiv;
-    }
-    get ComponentView() {
-        return this._docViewInternal?._componentView;
-    }
-    get allLinks() {
-        return (this._docViewInternal?.allLinks || []).filter(link => !link.link_matchEmbeddings || link.link_anchor_1 === this.Document || link.link_anchor_2 === this.Document);
-    }
-    get LayoutFieldKey() {
-        return this._docViewInternal?.LayoutFieldKey || 'layout';
-    }
-    @computed get layout_fitWidth() {
-        return this._props.layout_fitWidth?.(this.layoutDoc) ?? this.layoutDoc?.layout_fitWidth;
-    }
-    @computed get anchorViewDoc() {
-        return this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes('link_anchor_2') ? DocCast(this.Document['link_anchor_2']) : this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes('link_anchor_1') ? DocCast(this.Document['link_anchor_1']) : undefined;
-    }
-    @computed get hideLinkButton() {
-        return (
-            this._props.hideLinkButton ||
-            this._props.renderDepth === -1 || //
-            (this.IsSelected && this._props.renderDepth) ||
-            !this._isHovering ||
-            (!this.IsSelected && this.layoutDoc.layout_hideLinkButton) ||
-            SnappingManager.IsDragging ||
-            SnappingManager.IsResizing
-        );
-    }
-    hideLinkCount = () => (this.hideLinkButton ? true : false);
+    // want the htmloverlay to be able to fade in but we also want it to be display 'none' until it is needed.
+    // unfortunately, CSS can't transition animate any properties for something that is display 'none'.
+    // so we need to first activate the div, then, after a render timeout, start the opacity transition.
+    @observable private _enableHtmlOverlayTransitions: boolean = false;
+    @observable private _docViewInternal: DocumentViewInternal | undefined | null = undefined;
+    @observable private _htmlOverlayText: Opt<string> = undefined;
+    @observable private _isHovering = false;
+    @observable private _selected = false;
+    @observable public static LongPress = false;
 
-    @computed get linkCountView() {
-        return <DocumentLinksButton hideCount={this.hideLinkCount} View={this} scaling={this.screenToLocalScale} OnHover={true} Bottom={this.topMost} ShowCount={true} />;
-    }
-    /**
-     * path of DocumentViews hat contains this DocumentView (does not includes this DocumentView thouhg)
-     */
-    @computed get containerViewPath() {
-        return this._props.containerViewPath;
-    }
-    @computed get layoutDoc() {
-        return Doc.Layout(this.Document, this._props.LayoutTemplate?.());
-    }
-    @computed get nativeWidth() {
-        return this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) ? 0 : returnVal(this._props.NativeWidth?.(), Doc.NativeWidth(this.layoutDoc, this._props.TemplateDataDocument, !this.layout_fitWidth));
-    }
-    @computed get nativeHeight() {
-        return this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) ? 0 : returnVal(this._props.NativeHeight?.(), Doc.NativeHeight(this.layoutDoc, this._props.TemplateDataDocument, !this.layout_fitWidth));
-    }
-    @computed get shouldNotScale() {
+    @computed private get shouldNotScale() {
         return (this.layout_fitWidth && !this.nativeWidth) || this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) || [CollectionViewType.Docking].includes(this.Document._type_collection as any);
     }
-    @computed get effectiveNativeWidth() {
+    @computed private get effectiveNativeWidth() {
         return this.shouldNotScale ? 0 : this.nativeWidth || NumCast(this.layoutDoc.width);
     }
-    @computed get effectiveNativeHeight() {
+    @computed private get effectiveNativeHeight() {
         return this.shouldNotScale ? 0 : this.nativeHeight || NumCast(this.layoutDoc.height);
     }
-    @computed get nativeScaling() {
+    @computed private get nativeScaling() {
         if (this.shouldNotScale) return 1;
         const minTextScale = this.Document.type === DocumentType.RTF ? 0.1 : 0;
         if (this.layout_fitWidth || this._props.PanelHeight() / (this.effectiveNativeHeight || 1) > this._props.PanelWidth() / (this.effectiveNativeWidth || 1)) {
@@ -1493,19 +1156,19 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
         }
         return Math.max(minTextScale, this._props.PanelHeight() / (this.effectiveNativeHeight || 1)); // height-limited or unscaled
     }
-    @computed get panelWidth() {
+    @computed private get panelWidth() {
         return this.effectiveNativeWidth ? this.effectiveNativeWidth * this.nativeScaling : this._props.PanelWidth();
     }
-    @computed get panelHeight() {
+    @computed private get panelHeight() {
         if (this.effectiveNativeHeight && (!this.layout_fitWidth || !this.layoutDoc.layout_reflowVertical)) {
             return Math.min(this._props.PanelHeight(), this.effectiveNativeHeight * this.nativeScaling);
         }
         return this._props.PanelHeight();
     }
-    @computed get Xshift() {
+    @computed private get Xshift() {
         return this.effectiveNativeWidth ? Math.max(0, (this._props.PanelWidth() - this.effectiveNativeWidth * this.nativeScaling) / 2) : 0;
     }
-    @computed get Yshift() {
+    @computed private get Yshift() {
         return this.effectiveNativeWidth &&
             this.effectiveNativeHeight &&
             Math.abs(this.Xshift) < 0.001 &&
@@ -1513,41 +1176,99 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
             ? Math.max(0, (this._props.PanelHeight() - this.effectiveNativeHeight * this.nativeScaling) / 2)
             : 0;
     }
-    @computed get centeringX() {
-        return this._props.dontCenter?.includes('x') ? 0 : this.Xshift;
+    @computed private get hideLinkButton() {
+        return (
+            this._props.hideLinkButton ||
+            this._props.renderDepth === -1 || //
+            (this.IsSelected && this._props.renderDepth) ||
+            !this._isHovering ||
+            (!this.IsSelected && this.layoutDoc.layout_hideLinkButton) ||
+            SnappingManager.IsDragging ||
+            SnappingManager.IsResizing
+        );
+    }
+
+    componentDidMount() {
+        runInAction(() => this.Document[DocViews].add(this));
+        this._disposers.onViewMounted = reaction(() => ScriptCast(this.Document.onViewMounted)?.script?.run({ this: this.Document }).result, emptyFunction);
+        !BoolCast(this.Document.dontRegisterView, this._props.dontRegisterView) && DocumentManager.Instance.AddView(this);
+    }
+
+    componentWillUnmount() {
+        runInAction(() => this.Document[DocViews].delete(this));
+        Object.values(this._disposers).forEach(disposer => disposer?.());
+        !BoolCast(this.Document.dontRegisterView, this._props.dontRegisterView) && DocumentManager.Instance.RemoveView(this);
     }
-    @computed get centeringY() {
-        return this._props.dontCenter?.includes('y') ? 0 : this.Yshift;
+
+    public set IsSelected(val)  { runInAction(() => (this._selected = val)); } // prettier-ignore
+    public get IsSelected()     { return this._selected; } // prettier-ignore
+    public get topMost()        { return this._props.renderDepth === 0; } // prettier-ignore
+    public get ContentDiv()     { return this._docViewInternal?._contentDiv; } // prettier-ignore
+    public get ComponentView()  { return this._docViewInternal?._componentView; } // prettier-ignore
+    public get allLinks()       { return this._docViewInternal?._allLinks ?? []; } // prettier-ignore
+
+    get LayoutFieldKey() {
+        return Doc.LayoutFieldKey(this.Document, this._props.LayoutTemplateString);
     }
 
-    @computed get CollectionFreeFormView() {
-        return this.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.CollectionFreeFormView;
+    @computed get layout_fitWidth() {
+        return this._props.layout_fitWidth?.(this.layoutDoc) ?? this.layoutDoc?.layout_fitWidth;
     }
-    @computed get CollectionFreeFormDocumentView() {
-        return this._props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.();
+    @computed get anchorViewDoc() {
+        return this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes('link_anchor_2') ? DocCast(this.Document['link_anchor_2']) : this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes('link_anchor_1') ? DocCast(this.Document['link_anchor_1']) : undefined;
     }
 
-    public toggleNativeDimensions = () => this._docViewInternal && this.Document.type !== DocumentType.INK && Doc.toggleNativeDimensions(this.layoutDoc, this._docViewInternal.NativeDimScaling, this._props.PanelWidth(), this._props.PanelHeight());
-    public getBounds = () => {
-        if (!this._docViewInternal?.ContentDiv || this._props.treeViewDoc || Doc.AreProtosEqual(this.Document, Doc.UserDoc())) {
+    @computed get getBounds() {
+        if (!this._docViewInternal?._contentDiv || this._props.treeViewDoc || Doc.AreProtosEqual(this.Document, Doc.UserDoc())) {
             return undefined;
         }
         if (this._docViewInternal._componentView?.screenBounds?.()) {
             return this._docViewInternal._componentView.screenBounds();
         }
-        const xf = this._docViewInternal._props.ScreenToLocalTransform().scale(this.nativeScaling).inverse();
+        const xf = this.screenToContentsTransform().scale(this.nativeScaling).inverse();
         const [[left, top], [right, bottom]] = [xf.transformPoint(0, 0), xf.transformPoint(this.panelWidth, this.panelHeight)];
 
-        if (this._docViewInternal._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(LinkAnchorBox.name)) {
-            const docuBox = this._docViewInternal.ContentDiv.getElementsByClassName('linkAnchorBox-cont');
+        if (this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(LinkAnchorBox.name)) {
+            const docuBox = this._docViewInternal._contentDiv.getElementsByClassName('linkAnchorBox-cont');
             if (docuBox.length) return { ...docuBox[0].getBoundingClientRect(), center: undefined };
         }
         return { left, top, right, bottom };
+    }
+
+    @computed get nativeWidth() {
+        return this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) ? 0 : returnVal(this._props.NativeWidth?.(), Doc.NativeWidth(this.layoutDoc, this._props.TemplateDataDocument, !this.layout_fitWidth));
+    }
+    @computed get nativeHeight() {
+        return this._props.LayoutTemplateString?.includes(KeyValueBox.name) ? 0 : returnVal(this._props.NativeHeight?.(), Doc.NativeHeight(this.layoutDoc, this._props.TemplateDataDocument, !this.layout_fitWidth));
+    }
+    @computed public get centeringX() { return this._props.dontCenter?.includes('x') ? 0 : this.Xshift; } // prettier-ignore
+    @computed public get centeringY() { return this._props.dontCenter?.includes('y') ? 0 : this.Yshift; } // prettier-ignore
+
+    /**
+     * path of DocumentViews hat contains this DocumentView (does not includes this DocumentView thouhg)
+     */
+    public get containerViewPath() { return this._props.containerViewPath; } // prettier-ignore
+    public get CollectionFreeFormView() { return this.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.CollectionFreeFormView; } // prettier-ignore
+    public get CollectionFreeFormDocumentView() { return this._props.CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?.(); } // prettier-ignore
+
+    public clearViewTransition = () => {
+        this._viewTimer && clearTimeout(this._viewTimer);
+        this.layoutDoc._viewTransition = undefined;
     };
+    public noOnClick = () => this._docViewInternal?.noOnClick();
+    public makeIntoPortal = () => this._docViewInternal?.makeIntoPortal();
+    public toggleFollowLink = (zoom?: boolean, setTargetToggle?: boolean): void => this._docViewInternal?.toggleFollowLink(zoom, setTargetToggle);
+    public setToggleDetail = () => this._docViewInternal?.setToggleDetail();
+    public onContextMenu = (e?: React.MouseEvent, pageX?: number, pageY?: number) => this._docViewInternal?.onContextMenu?.(e, pageX, pageY);
+    public cleanupPointerEvents = () => this._docViewInternal?.cleanupPointerEvents();
+    public startDragging = (x: number, y: number, dropAction: dropActionType, hideSource = false) => this._docViewInternal?.startDragging(x, y, dropAction, hideSource);
+    public showContextMenu = (pageX: number, pageY: number) => this._docViewInternal?.onContextMenu(undefined, pageX, pageY);
+
+    public toggleNativeDimensions = () => this._docViewInternal && this.Document.type !== DocumentType.INK && Doc.toggleNativeDimensions(this.layoutDoc, this.NativeDimScaling() ?? 1, this._props.PanelWidth(), this._props.PanelHeight());
 
     public iconify(finished?: () => void, animateTime?: number) {
         this.ComponentView?.updateIcon?.();
-        const animTime = this._docViewInternal?._animateScaleTime;
+        const animTime = this._docViewInternal?.animateScaleTime();
         runInAction(() => this._docViewInternal && animateTime !== undefined && (this._docViewInternal._animateScaleTime = animateTime));
         const finalFinished = action(() => {
             finished?.();
@@ -1564,13 +1285,58 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
             this._props.bringToFront(this.Document);
         }
     }
-    @undoBatch
-    setCustomView = (custom: boolean, layout: string): void => {
+
+    public playAnnotation = () => {
+        const self = this;
+        const audioAnnoState = this.dataDoc.audioAnnoState ?? 'stopped';
+        const audioAnnos = Cast(this.dataDoc[this.LayoutFieldKey + '_audioAnnotations'], listSpec(AudioField), null);
+        const anno = audioAnnos?.lastElement();
+        if (anno instanceof AudioField) {
+            switch (audioAnnoState) {
+                case 'stopped':
+                    this.dataDoc[AudioPlay] = new Howl({
+                        src: [anno.url.href],
+                        format: ['mp3'],
+                        autoplay: true,
+                        loop: false,
+                        volume: 0.5,
+                        onend: action(() => (self.dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'stopped')),
+                    });
+                    this.dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'playing';
+                    break;
+                case 'playing':
+                    this.dataDoc[AudioPlay]?.stop();
+                    this.dataDoc.audioAnnoState = 'stopped';
+                    break;
+            }
+        }
+    };
+
+    public setTextHtmlOverlay = action((text: string | undefined, effect?: Doc) => {
+        this._htmlOverlayText = text;
+        this._htmlOverlayEffect = effect;
+    });
+    public setAnimateScaling = action((scale: number, time?: number) => {
+        if (this._docViewInternal) {
+            this._docViewInternal._animateScalingTo = scale;
+            this._docViewInternal._animateScaleTime = time;
+        }
+    });
+    public setAnimEffect = (presEffect: Doc, timeInMs: number, afterTrans?: () => void) => {
+        this._animEffectTimer && clearTimeout(this._animEffectTimer);
+        this.Document[Animation] = presEffect;
+        this._animEffectTimer = setTimeout(() => (this.Document[Animation] = undefined), timeInMs);
+    };
+    public setViewTransition = (transProp: string, timeInMs: number, afterTrans?: () => void, dataTrans = false) => {
+        this._viewTimer = DocumentView.SetViewTransition([this.layoutDoc], transProp, timeInMs, this._viewTimer, afterTrans, dataTrans);
+    };
+
+    public setCustomView = undoable((custom: boolean, layout: string): void => {
         Doc.setNativeView(this.Document);
         custom && DocUtils.makeCustomViewClicked(this.Document, Docs.Create.StackingDocument, layout, undefined);
-    };
+    }, 'set custom view');
 
-    switchViews = (custom: boolean, view: string, finished?: () => void, useExistingLayout = false) => {
+    public switchViews = (custom: boolean, view: string, finished?: () => void, useExistingLayout = false) => {
         runInAction(() => this._docViewInternal && (this._docViewInternal._animateScalingTo = 0.1)); // shrink doc
         setTimeout(
             action(() => {
@@ -1585,16 +1351,19 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
                         this._docViewInternal && (this._docViewInternal._animateScalingTo = 0);
                         finished?.();
                     }),
-                    this._docViewInternal ? Math.max(0, this._docViewInternal.animateScaleTime - 10) : 0
+                    Math.max(0, (this._docViewInternal?.animateScaleTime() ?? 0) - 10)
                 );
             }),
-            this._docViewInternal ? Math.max(0, this._docViewInternal?.animateScaleTime - 10) : 0
+            Math.max(0, (this._docViewInternal?.animateScaleTime() ?? 0) - 10)
         );
     };
+    /**
+     * @returns a hierarchy path through  the nested DocumentViews that display this view.  The last element of the path is this view.
+     */
+    public docViewPath = () => (this.containerViewPath ? [...this.containerViewPath(), this] : [this]);
 
     layout_fitWidthFunc = (doc: Doc) => BoolCast(this.layout_fitWidth);
     screenToLocalScale = () => this._props.ScreenToLocalTransform().Scale;
-    docViewPath = () => (this.containerViewPath ? [...this.containerViewPath(), this] : [this]);
     isSelected = () => this.IsSelected;
     select = (extendSelection: boolean, focusSelection?: boolean) => {
         if (this.IsSelected && SelectionManager.Views.length > 1) SelectionManager.DeselectView(this);
@@ -1615,6 +1384,7 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
     PanelWidth = () => this.panelWidth;
     PanelHeight = () => this.panelHeight;
     NativeDimScaling = () => this.nativeScaling;
+    hideLinkCount = () => (this.hideLinkButton ? true : false);
     selfView = () => this;
     /**
      * @returns Transform to the document view (in the coordinate system of whatever contains the DocumentView)
@@ -1629,34 +1399,19 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
             .translate(-this.centeringX, -this.centeringY)
             .scale(1 / this.nativeScaling);
 
-    componentDidMount() {
-        runInAction(() => this.Document[DocViews].add(this));
-        this._disposers.onViewMounted = reaction(() => ScriptCast(this.Document.onViewMounted)?.script?.run({ this: this.Document }).result, emptyFunction);
-        !BoolCast(this.Document.dontRegisterView, this._props.dontRegisterView) && DocumentManager.Instance.AddView(this);
-    }
-
-    componentWillUnmount() {
-        runInAction(() => this.Document[DocViews].delete(this));
-        Object.values(this._disposers).forEach(disposer => disposer?.());
-        !BoolCast(this.Document.dontRegisterView, this._props.dontRegisterView) && DocumentManager.Instance.RemoveView(this);
-    }
-    // want the htmloverlay to be able to fade in but we also want it to be display 'none' until it is needed.
-    // unfortunately, CSS can't transition animate any properties for something that is display 'none'.
-    // so we need to first activate the div, then, after a render timeout, start the opacity transition.
-    @observable enableHtmlOverlayTransitions: boolean = false;
-    @computed get htmlOverlay() {
+    htmlOverlay = () => {
         const effect = StrCast(this._htmlOverlayEffect?.presentation_effect, StrCast(this._htmlOverlayEffect?.followLinkAnimEffect));
         return (
             <div
                 className="documentView-htmlOverlay"
                 ref={r => {
                     const val = r?.style.display !== 'none'; // if the outer overlay has been displayed, trigger the innner div to start it's opacity fade in transition
-                    if (r && val !== this.enableHtmlOverlayTransitions) {
-                        setTimeout(action(() => (this.enableHtmlOverlayTransitions = val)));
+                    if (r && val !== this._enableHtmlOverlayTransitions) {
+                        setTimeout(action(() => (this._enableHtmlOverlayTransitions = val)));
                     }
                 }}
                 style={{ display: !this._htmlOverlayText ? 'none' : undefined }}>
-                <div className="documentView-htmlOverlayInner" style={{ transition: `all 500ms`, opacity: this.enableHtmlOverlayTransitions ? 0.9 : 0 }}>
+                <div className="documentView-htmlOverlayInner" style={{ transition: `all 500ms`, opacity: this._enableHtmlOverlayTransitions ? 0.9 : 0 }}>
                     {DocumentViewInternal.AnimationEffect(
                         <div className="webBox-textHighlight">
                             <ObserverJsxParser autoCloseVoidElements={true} key={42} onError={(e: any) => console.log('PARSE error', e)} renderInWrapper={false} jsx={StrCast(this._htmlOverlayText)} />
@@ -1667,11 +1422,7 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
                 </div>
             </div>
         );
-    }
-
-    @computed get infoUI() {
-        return this.ComponentView?.infoUI?.();
-    }
+    };
 
     render() {
         TraceMobx();
@@ -1685,14 +1436,14 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
                         className="contentFittingDocumentView-previewDoc"
                         ref={this.ContentRef}
                         style={{
-                            transition: 'inherit', // this._props.dataTransition,
                             transform: `translate(${this.centeringX}px, ${this.centeringY}px)`,
                             width: xshift ?? `${this._props.PanelWidth() - this.Xshift * 2}px`,
                             height: this._props.forceAutoHeight ? undefined : yshift ?? (this.layout_fitWidth ? `${this.panelHeight}px` : `${(this.effectiveNativeHeight / this.effectiveNativeWidth) * this._props.PanelWidth()}px`),
                         }}>
                         <DocumentViewInternal
                             {...this._props}
-                            docViewPublic={this.selfView}
+                            fieldKey={this.LayoutFieldKey}
+                            DocumentView={this.selfView}
                             docViewPath={this.docViewPath}
                             PanelWidth={this.PanelWidth}
                             PanelHeight={this.PanelHeight}
@@ -1706,15 +1457,44 @@ export class DocumentView extends ObservableReactComponent<DocumentViewProps> {
                             focus={this._props.focus || emptyFunction}
                             ref={action((r: DocumentViewInternal | null) => r && (this._docViewInternal = r))}
                         />
-                        {this.htmlOverlay}
-                        {this.infoUI}
+                        {this.htmlOverlay()}
+                        {this.ComponentView?.infoUI?.()}
                     </div>
                 )}
-
-                {this.linkCountView}
+                {/* display link count button */}
+                <DocumentLinksButton hideCount={this.hideLinkCount} View={this} scaling={this.screenToLocalScale} OnHover={true} Bottom={this.topMost} ShowCount={true} />
             </div>
         );
     }
+
+    public static SetViewTransition(docs: Doc[], transProp: string, timeInMs: number, timer?: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined, afterTrans?: () => void, dataTrans = false) {
+        docs.forEach(doc => {
+            doc._viewTransition = `${transProp} ${timeInMs}ms`;
+            dataTrans && (doc.dataTransition = `${transProp} ${timeInMs}ms`);
+        });
+        timer && clearTimeout(timer);
+        return setTimeout(
+            () =>
+                docs.forEach(doc => {
+                    doc._viewTransition = undefined;
+                    dataTrans && (doc.dataTransition = 'inherit');
+                    afterTrans?.();
+                }),
+            timeInMs + 10
+        );
+    }
+
+    // shows a stacking view collection (by default, but the user can change) of all documents linked to the source
+    public static showBackLinks(linkAnchor: Doc) {
+        const docId = Doc.CurrentUserEmail + Doc.GetProto(linkAnchor)[Id] + '-pivotish';
+        // prettier-ignore
+        DocServer.GetRefField(docId).then(docx =>
+            LightboxView.Instance.SetLightboxDoc(
+                (docx as Doc) ?? // reuse existing pivot view of documents, or else create a new collection
+                Docs.Create.StackingDocument([], { title: linkAnchor.title + '-pivot', _width: 500, _height: 500, target: linkAnchor, onViewMounted: ScriptField.MakeScript('updateLinkCollection(this, this.target)') }, docId)
+            )
+        );
+    }
 }
 
 ScriptingGlobals.add(function deiconifyView(documentView: DocumentView) {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/EquationBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/EquationBox.tsx
index cad76ddf7..2e03a766a 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/EquationBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/EquationBox.tsx
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ export class EquationBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     public static SelectOnLoad: string = '';
     _ref: React.RefObject<EquationEditor> = React.createRef();
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         if (EquationBox.SelectOnLoad === this.Document[Id] && (!LightboxView.LightboxDoc || LightboxView.Contains(this.DocumentView?.()))) {
             this._props.select(false);
 
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
index b456807d7..5bb295565 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
@@ -1,26 +1,108 @@
-import { computed } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { DateField } from '../../../fields/DateField';
-import { Doc, Field, FieldResult, Opt } from '../../../fields/Doc';
+import { Doc, Field, Opt } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { List } from '../../../fields/List';
 import { ScriptField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
 import { WebField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
-import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternalSharedProps, DocumentViewSharedProps } from './DocumentView';
+import { dropActionType } from '../../util/DragManager';
+import { Transform } from '../../util/Transform';
+import { ViewBoxInterface } from '../DocComponent';
+import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentView } from './CollectionFreeFormDocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
+import { PinProps } from './trails';
 
+export interface FocusViewOptions {
+    willPan?: boolean; // determines whether to pan to target document
+    willZoomCentered?: boolean; // determines whether to zoom in on target document.  if zoomScale is 0, this just centers the document
+    zoomScale?: number; // percent of containing frame to zoom into document
+    zoomTime?: number;
+    didMove?: boolean; // whether a document was changed during the showDocument process
+    docTransform?: Transform; // when a document can't be panned and zoomed within its own container (say a group), then we need to continue to move up the render hierarchy to find something that can pan and zoom.  when this happens the docTransform must accumulate all the transforms of each level of the hierarchy
+    instant?: boolean; // whether focus should happen instantly (as opposed to smooth zoom)
+    preview?: boolean; // whether changes should be previewed by the componentView or written to the document
+    effect?: Doc; // animation effect for focus
+    noSelect?: boolean; // whether target should be selected after focusing
+    playAudio?: boolean; // whether to play audio annotation on focus
+    playMedia?: boolean; // whether to play start target videos
+    openLocation?: OpenWhere; // where to open a missing document
+    zoomTextSelections?: boolean; // whether to display a zoomed overlay of anchor text selections
+    toggleTarget?: boolean; // whether to toggle target on and off
+    anchorDoc?: Doc; // doc containing anchor info to apply at end of focus to target doc
+    easeFunc?: 'linear' | 'ease'; // transition method for scrolling
+}
+export type FocusFuncType = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => Opt<number>;
+export type StyleProviderFuncType = (doc: Opt<Doc>, props: Opt<FieldViewProps>, property: string) => any;
 //
 // these properties get assigned through the render() method of the DocumentView when it creates this node.
 // However, that only happens because the properties are "defined" in the markup for the field view.
 // See the LayoutString method on each field view :   ImageBox, FormattedTextBox, etc.
 //
-export interface FieldViewProps extends DocumentViewSharedProps, DocumentViewInternalSharedProps {
-    // FieldView specific props that are not part of DocumentView props
-    fieldKey: string;
-
-    setHeight?: (height: number) => void;
-    onBrowseClick?: () => ScriptField | undefined;
+export interface FieldViewSharedProps {
+    Document: Doc;
+    LayoutTemplateString?: string;
+    LayoutTemplate?: () => Opt<Doc>;
+    TemplateDataDocument?: Doc;
+    renderDepth: number;
+    scriptContext?: any; // can be assigned anything and will be passed as 'scriptContext' to any OnClick script that executes on this document
+    treeViewDoc?: Doc;
+    xPadding?: number;
+    yPadding?: number;
+    dontRegisterView?: boolean;
+    dropAction?: dropActionType;
+    dragAction?: dropActionType;
+    forceAutoHeight?: boolean;
+    ignoreAutoHeight?: boolean;
+    disableBrushing?: boolean; // should highlighting for this view be disabled when same document in another view is hovered over.
+    CollectionFreeFormDocumentView?: () => CollectionFreeFormDocumentView;
+    containerViewPath?: () => DocumentView[];
+    fitContentsToBox?: () => boolean; // used by freeformview to fit its contents to its panel. corresponds to _freeform_fitContentsToBox property on a Document
+    isGroupActive?: () => string | undefined; // is this document part of a group that is active
+    setContentViewBox?: (view: ViewBoxInterface) => any; // called by rendered field's viewBox so that DocumentView can make direct calls to the viewBox
+    PanelWidth: () => number;
+    PanelHeight: () => number;
+    isDocumentActive?: () => boolean | undefined; // whether a document should handle pointer events
+    isContentActive: () => boolean | undefined; // whether document contents should handle pointer events
+    childFilters: () => string[];
+    childFiltersByRanges: () => string[];
+    styleProvider: Opt<StyleProviderFuncType>;
+    setTitleFocus?: () => void;
+    focus: FocusFuncType;
+    onClickScript?: () => ScriptField;
+    onDoubleClickScript?: () => ScriptField;
+    onPointerDownScript?: () => ScriptField;
+    onPointerUpScript?: () => ScriptField;
+    onBrowseClickScript?: () => ScriptField | undefined;
     onKey?: (e: React.KeyboardEvent, fieldProps: FieldViewProps) => boolean | undefined;
+    layout_fitWidth?: (doc: Doc) => boolean | undefined;
+    searchFilterDocs: () => Doc[];
+    layout_showTitle?: () => string;
+    whenChildContentsActiveChanged: (isActive: boolean) => void;
+    rootSelected?: () => boolean; // whether the root of a template has been selected
+    addDocTab: (doc: Doc, where: OpenWhere) => boolean;
+    filterAddDocument?: (doc: Doc[]) => boolean; // allows a document that renders a Collection view to filter or modify any documents added to the collection (see PresBox for an example)
+    addDocument?: (doc: Doc | Doc[], annotationKey?: string) => boolean;
+    removeDocument?: (doc: Doc | Doc[], annotationKey?: string) => boolean;
+    moveDocument?: (doc: Doc | Doc[], targetCollection: Doc | undefined, addDocument: (document: Doc | Doc[], annotationKey?: string) => boolean) => boolean;
+    pinToPres: (document: Doc, pinProps: PinProps) => void;
+    ScreenToLocalTransform: () => Transform;
+    bringToFront: (doc: Doc, sendToBack?: boolean) => void;
+    waitForDoubleClickToClick?: () => 'never' | 'always' | undefined;
+    defaultDoubleClick?: () => 'default' | 'ignore' | undefined;
     pointerEvents?: () => Opt<string>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * FieldView specific props that are not shared with DocumentView props
+ *  */
+export interface FieldViewProps extends FieldViewSharedProps {
+    DocumentView?: () => DocumentView;
+    fieldKey: string;
+    isSelected: () => boolean;
+    select: (ctrlPressed: boolean, shiftPress?: boolean) => void;
+    docViewPath: () => DocumentView[];
+    setHeight?: (height: number) => void;
+    NativeDimScaling?: () => number; // scaling the DocumentView does to transform its contents into its panel & needed by ScreenToLocal
 
     // properties intended to be used from within layout strings (otherwise use the function equivalents that work more efficiently with React)
     // See currentUserUtils headerTemplate for examples of creating text boxes from html which set some of these fields
@@ -30,9 +112,9 @@ export interface FieldViewProps extends DocumentViewSharedProps, DocumentViewInt
     color?: string;
     height?: number;
     width?: number;
+    dontSelectOnLoad?: boolean; // suppress selecting (e.g.,. text box) when loaded (and mark as not being associated with scrollTop document field)
     noSidebar?: boolean;
     dontScale?: boolean;
-    dontSelectOnLoad?: boolean; // suppress selecting (e.g.,. text box) when loaded (and mark as not being associated with scrollTop document field)
 }
 
 @observer
@@ -41,13 +123,8 @@ export class FieldView extends React.Component<FieldViewProps> {
         return `<${fieldType.name} {...props} fieldKey={'${fieldStr}'}/>`; //e.g., "<ImageBox {...props} fieldKey={'data'} />"
     }
 
-    @computed
-    get field(): FieldResult {
-        const { Document, fieldKey: fieldKey } = this.props;
-        return Document[fieldKey];
-    }
     render() {
-        const field = this.field;
+        const field = this.props.Document[this.props.fieldKey];
         // prettier-ignore
         if (field instanceof Doc)  return <p> <b>{field.title?.toString()}</b></p>;
         if (field === undefined) return <p>{'<null>'}</p>;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/FontIconBox/FontIconBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/FontIconBox/FontIconBox.tsx
index 5a8665aaf..cf07d98be 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/FontIconBox/FontIconBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/FontIconBox/FontIconBox.tsx
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export class FontIconBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<ButtonProps>() {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(FontIconBox, fieldKey);
     }
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: ButtonProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/FunctionPlotBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/FunctionPlotBox.tsx
index c26579e66..2e7a2120e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/FunctionPlotBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/FunctionPlotBox.tsx
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export class FunctionPlotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>
     }
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         reaction(
             () => [DocListCast(this.dataDoc[this.fieldKey]).map(doc => doc?.text), this.layoutDoc.width, this.layoutDoc.height, this.layoutDoc.xRange, this.layoutDoc.yRange],
             () => this.createGraph()
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx
index 4483d12ce..2a10bd766 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/ImageBox.tsx
@@ -21,17 +21,17 @@ import { undoBatch } from '../../util/UndoManager';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../../views/ContextMenu';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../DocComponent';
 import { MarqueeAnnotator } from '../MarqueeAnnotator';
 import { AnchorMenu } from '../pdf/AnchorMenu';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
-import { DocFocusOptions, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
+import { OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import './ImageBox.scss';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
 
 @observer
-export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(ImageBox, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
     private _marqueeref = React.createRef<MarqueeAnnotator>();
     @observable _curSuffix = '';
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
 
     protected createDropTarget = (ele: HTMLDivElement) => {
@@ -186,9 +186,10 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
     crop = (region: Doc | undefined, addCrop?: boolean) => {
         if (!region) return;
         const cropping = Doc.MakeCopy(region, true);
-        Doc.GetProto(region).lockedPosition = true;
-        Doc.GetProto(region).title = 'region:' + this.Document.title;
-        Doc.GetProto(region).followLinkToggle = true;
+        const regionData = region[DocData];
+        regionData.lockedPosition = true;
+        regionData.title = 'region:' + this.Document.title;
+        regionData.followLinkToggle = true;
         this.addDocument(region);
         const anchx = NumCast(cropping.x);
         const anchy = NumCast(cropping.y);
@@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         cropping._width = anchw * (this._props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1);
         cropping._height = anchh * (this._props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1);
         cropping.onClick = undefined;
-        const croppingProto = Doc.GetProto(cropping);
+        const croppingProto = cropping[DocData];
         croppingProto.annotationOn = undefined;
         croppingProto.isDataDoc = true;
         croppingProto.backgroundColor = undefined;
@@ -389,7 +390,7 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         this._marqueeref.current?.onTerminateSelection();
         this._props.select(false);
     };
-    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => (anchor.type === DocumentType.CONFIG ? undefined : this._ffref.current?.focus(anchor, options));
+    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => (anchor.type === DocumentType.CONFIG ? undefined : this._ffref.current?.focus(anchor, options));
 
     _ffref = React.createRef<CollectionFreeFormView>();
     savedAnnotations = () => this._savedAnnotations;
@@ -421,7 +422,7 @@ export class ImageBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
                 <CollectionFreeFormView
                     ref={this._ffref}
                     {...this._props}
-                    setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                    setContentViewBox={emptyFunction}
                     NativeWidth={returnZero}
                     NativeHeight={returnZero}
                     renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/KeyValueBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/KeyValueBox.tsx
index 73fdc3a23..39a45693e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/KeyValueBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/KeyValueBox.tsx
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ export class KeyValueBox extends ObservableReactComponent<FieldViewProps> {
     private _valInput = React.createRef<HTMLInputElement>();
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
     isKeyValueBox = returnTrue;
     able = returnAlways;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/KeyValuePair.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/KeyValuePair.tsx
index b2aab2422..7c532f33f 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/KeyValuePair.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/KeyValuePair.tsx
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { EditableView } from '../EditableView';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { DefaultStyleProvider } from '../StyleProvider';
-import { OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
-import { FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
+import { OpenWhere, returnEmptyDocViewList } from './DocumentView';
 import { KeyValueBox } from './KeyValueBox';
 import './KeyValueBox.scss';
 import './KeyValuePair.scss';
@@ -110,6 +109,7 @@ export class KeyValuePair extends ObservableReactComponent<KeyValuePairProps> {
                                 childFiltersByRanges: returnEmptyFilter,
                                 searchFilterDocs: returnEmptyDoclist,
                                 styleProvider: DefaultStyleProvider,
+                                docViewPath: returnEmptyDocViewList,
                                 fieldKey: this._props.keyName,
                                 isSelected: returnFalse,
                                 setHeight: returnFalse,
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx
index cc7c15a10..10eeff08d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LabelBox.tsx
@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import BigText from './LabelBigText';
 import './LabelBox.scss';
+import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
+import { Docs } from '../../documents/Documents';
 
-export interface LabelBoxProps {
+export interface LabelBoxProps extends FieldViewProps {
     label?: string;
 }
 
 @observer
-export class LabelBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & LabelBoxProps>() {
+export class LabelBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<LabelBoxProps>() {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(LabelBox, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -30,13 +32,13 @@ export class LabelBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & LabelBoxProp
     private dropDisposer?: DragManager.DragDropDisposer;
     private _timeout: any;
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: LabelBoxProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
     componentWillUnMount() {
         this._timeout && clearTimeout(this._timeout);
@@ -89,6 +91,19 @@ export class LabelBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & LabelBoxProp
         return this._mouseOver ? StrCast(this.layoutDoc._hoverBackgroundColor) : this._props.styleProvider?.(this.layoutDoc, this._props, StyleProp.BackgroundColor);
     }
 
+    getAnchor = (addAsAnnotation: boolean, pinProps?: PinProps) => {
+        if (!pinProps) return this.Document;
+        const anchor = Docs.Create.ConfigDocument({ title: StrCast(this.Document.title), annotationOn: this.Document });
+
+        if (anchor) {
+            if (!addAsAnnotation) anchor.backgroundColor = 'transparent';
+            //  addAsAnnotation && this.addDocument(anchor);
+            PresBox.pinDocView(anchor, { pinDocLayout: pinProps?.pinDocLayout, pinData: { ...(pinProps?.pinData ?? {}) } }, this.Document);
+            return anchor;
+        }
+        return anchor;
+    };
+
     fitTextToBox = (
         r: any
     ):
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx
index 362a7def1..00e1f04c5 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkAnchorBox.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { action, computed, makeObservable } from 'mobx';
+import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Utils, emptyFunction, setupMoveUpEvents } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Doc } from '../../../fields/Doc';
@@ -7,13 +8,14 @@ import { TraceMobx } from '../../../fields/util';
 import { DragManager } from '../../util/DragManager';
 import { LinkFollower } from '../../util/LinkFollower';
 import { SelectionManager } from '../../util/SelectionManager';
-import { ViewBoxBaseComponent, ViewBoxBaseProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxBaseComponent } from '../DocComponent';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import './LinkAnchorBox.scss';
 import { LinkInfo } from './LinkDocPreview';
 const { default: { MEDIUM_GRAY }, } = require('../global/globalCssVariables.module.scss'); // prettier-ignore
-export class LinkAnchorBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & ViewBoxBaseProps>() {
+@observer
+export class LinkAnchorBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(LinkAnchorBox, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -23,13 +25,13 @@ export class LinkAnchorBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps & ViewBox
     _isOpen = false;
     _timeout: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined;
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
 
     @computed get linkSource() {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx
index ba34255dc..8b6293806 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkBox.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export class LinkBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(LinkBox, fieldKey);
     }
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export class LinkBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     };
     disposer: IReactionDisposer | undefined;
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         this.disposer = reaction(
             () => {
                 if (this.layoutDoc._layout_isSvg && (this.anchor1 || this.anchor2)?.CollectionFreeFormView) {
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ export class LinkBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
                         this.layoutDoc._width = params.rx - params?.lx;
                         this.layoutDoc._height = params?.by - params?.ty;
                     }
+                } else {
+                    this.layoutDoc._width = Math.max(50, NumCast(this.layoutDoc._width));
+                    this.layoutDoc._height = Math.max(50, NumCast(this.layoutDoc._height));
                 }
             },
             { fireImmediately: true }
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkDescriptionPopup.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkDescriptionPopup.tsx
index 8ad0b7dde..13f0ac4fc 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkDescriptionPopup.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkDescriptionPopup.tsx
@@ -1,20 +1,27 @@
-import { action, observable } from 'mobx';
+import { action, makeObservable, observable } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
-import { Doc } from '../../../fields/Doc';
+import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { LinkManager } from '../../util/LinkManager';
 import './LinkDescriptionPopup.scss';
 import { TaskCompletionBox } from './TaskCompletedBox';
 
 @observer
 export class LinkDescriptionPopup extends React.Component<{}> {
-    @observable public static descriptionPopup: boolean = false;
-    @observable public static showDescriptions: string = 'ON';
-    @observable public static popupX: number = 700;
-    @observable public static popupY: number = 350;
+    public static Instance: LinkDescriptionPopup;
+    @observable public display: boolean = false;
+    @observable public showDescriptions: string = 'ON';
+    @observable public popupX: number = 700;
+    @observable public popupY: number = 350;
     @observable description: string = '';
     @observable popupRef = React.createRef<HTMLDivElement>();
 
+    constructor(props: any) {
+        super(props);
+        makeObservable(this);
+        LinkDescriptionPopup.Instance = this;
+    }
+
     @action
     descriptionChanged = (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
         this.description = e.currentTarget.value;
@@ -22,16 +29,16 @@ export class LinkDescriptionPopup extends React.Component<{}> {
 
     @action
     onDismiss = (add: boolean) => {
-        LinkDescriptionPopup.descriptionPopup = false;
+        this.display = false;
         if (add) {
-            LinkManager.currentLink && (Doc.GetProto(LinkManager.currentLink).link_description = this.description);
+            LinkManager.currentLink && (LinkManager.currentLink[DocData].link_description = this.description);
         }
     };
 
     @action
     onClick = (e: PointerEvent) => {
         if (this.popupRef && !!!this.popupRef.current?.contains(e.target as any)) {
-            LinkDescriptionPopup.descriptionPopup = false;
+            this.display = false;
             TaskCompletionBox.taskCompleted = false;
         }
     };
@@ -46,13 +53,13 @@ export class LinkDescriptionPopup extends React.Component<{}> {
     }
 
     render() {
-        return (
+        return !this.display ? null : (
             <div
                 className="linkDescriptionPopup"
                 ref={this.popupRef}
                 style={{
-                    left: LinkDescriptionPopup.popupX ? LinkDescriptionPopup.popupX : 700,
-                    top: LinkDescriptionPopup.popupY ? LinkDescriptionPopup.popupY : 350,
+                    left: this.popupX ? this.popupX : 700,
+                    top: this.popupY ? this.popupY : 350,
                 }}>
                 <input
                     className="linkDescriptionPopup-input"
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkDocPreview.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkDocPreview.tsx
index ed4878d9d..2d54da0ed 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/LinkDocPreview.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/LinkDocPreview.tsx
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ import { SearchUtil } from '../../util/SearchUtil';
 import { SettingsManager } from '../../util/SettingsManager';
 import { Transform } from '../../util/Transform';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
-import { DocumentView, DocumentViewSharedProps, OpenWhere, StyleProviderFunc } from './DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
+import { StyleProviderFuncType } from './FieldView';
 import './LinkDocPreview.scss';
-import { FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 
 export class LinkInfo {
     private static _instance: Opt<LinkInfo>;
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ interface LinkDocPreviewProps {
     linkDoc?: Doc;
     linkSrc?: Doc;
     DocumentView?: () => DocumentView;
-    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFunc;
+    styleProvider?: StyleProviderFuncType;
     location: number[];
     hrefs?: string[];
     showHeader?: boolean;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx
index 56fb157da..c185c66fc 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox.tsx
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ import { DragManager } from '../../../util/DragManager';
 import { LinkManager } from '../../../util/LinkManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../../util/SnappingManager';
 import { UndoManager, undoable } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../../DocComponent';
 import { SidebarAnnos } from '../../SidebarAnnos';
 import { MarqueeOptionsMenu } from '../../collections/collectionFreeForm';
 import { Colors } from '../../global/globalEnums';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from '../DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from '../trails';
 import { fastSpeedIcon, mediumSpeedIcon, slowSpeedIcon } from './AnimationSpeedIcons';
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ type MapMarker = {
 // });
 
 @observer
-export class MapBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class MapBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(MapBox, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export class MapBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     private _disposers: { [key: string]: IReactionDisposer } = {};
     private _setPreviewCursor: undefined | ((x: number, y: number, drag: boolean, hide: boolean, doc: Opt<Doc>) => void);
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ export class MapBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
 
     componentDidMount() {
         this._unmounting = false;
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
 
     _unmounting = false;
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ export class MapBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
             DragManager.StartAnchorAnnoDrag([ele], new DragManager.AnchorAnnoDragData(docView, sourceAnchorCreator, targetCreator), e.pageX, e.pageY, {
                 dragComplete: e => {
                     if (!e.aborted && e.annoDragData && e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc && e.annoDragData.dropDocument && e.linkDocument) {
-                        e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc.followLinkToggle = e.annoDragData.dropDocument.annotationOn === this._props.Document;
+                        e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc.followLinkToggle = e.annoDragData.dropDocument.annotationOn === this.Document;
                         e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc.followLinkZoom = false;
                     }
                 },
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ export class MapBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         }
     };
 
-    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (this._sidebarRef?.current?.makeDocUnfiltered(doc) && !this.SidebarShown) {
             this.toggleSidebar();
             options.didMove = true;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox2.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox2.tsx
index 9734d9db1..9825824bd 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox2.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBox2.tsx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 // import { SnappingManager } from '../../../util/SnappingManager';
 // import { UndoManager } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
 // import { MarqueeOptionsMenu } from '../../collections/collectionFreeForm';
-// import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../../DocComponent';
+// import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent } from '../../DocComponent';
 // import { Colors } from '../../global/globalEnums';
 // import { AnchorMenu } from '../../pdf/AnchorMenu';
 // import { Annotation } from '../../pdf/Annotation';
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 // } as google.maps.places.AutocompleteOptions;
 
 // @observer
-// export class MapBox2 extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps & Partial<GoogleMapProps>>() {
+// export class MapBox2 extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps & Partial<GoogleMapProps>>() {
 //     private _dropDisposer?: DragManager.DragDropDisposer;
 //     private _disposers: { [name: string]: IReactionDisposer } = {};
 //     private _annotationLayer: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement> = React.createRef();
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 
 //     // iterate allMarkers to size, center, and zoom map to contain all markers
 //     private fitBounds = (map: google.maps.Map) => {
-//         const curBounds = map.getBounds() ?? new window.google.maps.LatLngBounds();
+//         const curBounds = map.getBounds ?? new window.google.maps.LatLngBounds();
 //         const isFitting = this.allMapMarkers.reduce((fits, place) => fits && curBounds?.contains({ lat: NumCast(place.lat), lng: NumCast(place.lng) }), true as boolean);
 //         !isFitting && map.fitBounds(this.allMapMarkers.reduce((bounds, place) => bounds.extend({ lat: NumCast(place.lat), lng: NumCast(place.lng) }), new window.google.maps.LatLngBounds()));
 //     };
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
 //         map.setZoom(NumCast(this.dataDoc.map_zoom, 2.5));
 //         map.setCenter(new google.maps.LatLng(NumCast(this.dataDoc.mapLat), NumCast(this.dataDoc.mapLng)));
 //         setTimeout(() => {
-//             if (this._loadPending && this._map.getBounds()) {
+//             if (this._loadPending && this._map.getBounds) {
 //                 this._loadPending = false;
 //                 this.layoutDoc.freeform_fitContentsToBox && this.fitBounds(this._map);
 //             }
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
 
 //     @action
 //     centered = () => {
-//         if (this._loadPending && this._map.getBounds()) {
+//         if (this._loadPending && this._map.getBounds) {
 //             this._loadPending = false;
 //             this.layoutDoc.freeform_fitContentsToBox && this.fitBounds(this._map);
 //         }
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
 
 //     @action
 //     zoomChanged = () => {
-//         if (this._loadPending && this._map.getBounds()) {
+//         if (this._loadPending && this._map.getBounds) {
 //             this._loadPending = false;
 //             this.layoutDoc.freeform_fitContentsToBox && this.fitBounds(this._map);
 //         }
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx
index a9c6ba22c..6ccbbbe1c 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/MapBox/MapBoxInfoWindow.tsx
@@ -9,19 +9,18 @@
 // import { CollectionViewType, DocumentType } from '../../../documents/DocumentTypes';
 // import { CollectionNoteTakingView } from '../../collections/CollectionNoteTakingView';
 // import { CollectionStackingView } from '../../collections/CollectionStackingView';
-// import { ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../../DocComponent';
 // import { FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
 // import { FormattedTextBox } from '../formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 // import './MapBox.scss';
 
-// interface MapBoxInfoWindowProps {
+// interface MapBoxInfoWindowProps extends FieldViewProps {
 //     place: Doc;
 //     renderDepth: number;
 //     markerMap: { [id: string]: google.maps.Marker };
 //     isAnyChildContentActive: () => boolean;
 // }
 // @observer
-// export class MapBoxInfoWindow extends React.Component<MapBoxInfoWindowProps & ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps> {
+// export class MapBoxInfoWindow extends React.Component<MapBoxInfoWindowProps> {
 //     @action
 //     private handleInfoWindowClose = () => {
 //         if (this.props.place.infoWindowOpen) {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/MapboxMapBox/MapboxContainer.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/MapboxMapBox/MapboxContainer.tsx
index e079f7457..8a5bd7ce6 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/MapboxMapBox/MapboxContainer.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/MapboxMapBox/MapboxContainer.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
 import { Button, EditableText, IconButton, Type } from 'browndash-components';
-import { IReactionDisposer, ObservableMap, action, computed, observable, reaction, runInAction } from 'mobx';
+import { IReactionDisposer, ObservableMap, action, computed, makeObservable, observable, reaction, runInAction } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { MapProvider, Map as MapboxMap } from 'react-map-gl';
@@ -16,18 +16,17 @@ import { LinkManager } from '../../../util/LinkManager';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../../util/SnappingManager';
 import { Transform } from '../../../util/Transform';
 import { UndoManager, undoable } from '../../../util/UndoManager';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent } from '../../DocComponent';
 import { SidebarAnnos } from '../../SidebarAnnos';
 import { MarqueeOptionsMenu } from '../../collections/collectionFreeForm';
 import { Colors } from '../../global/globalEnums';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from '../DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
 import { MapAnchorMenu } from '../MapBox/MapAnchorMenu';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from '../formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from '../trails';
 import './MapBox.scss';
 
-// amongus
 /**
  * MapBox architecture:
  * Main component: MapBox.tsx
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ const bingApiKey = process.env.BING_MAPS; // if you're running local, get a Bing
 // });
 
 @observer
-export class MapBoxContainer extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class MapBoxContainer extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(MapBoxContainer, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -71,6 +70,11 @@ export class MapBoxContainer extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotata
     private _disposers: { [key: string]: IReactionDisposer } = {};
     private _setPreviewCursor: undefined | ((x: number, y: number, drag: boolean, hide: boolean, doc: Opt<Doc>) => void);
 
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
+        super(props);
+        makeObservable(this);
+    }
+
     @observable private _savedAnnotations = new ObservableMap<number, HTMLDivElement[]>();
     @computed get allSidebarDocs() {
         return DocListCast(this.dataDoc[this.SidebarKey]);
@@ -97,7 +101,7 @@ export class MapBoxContainer extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotata
 
     componentDidMount() {
         this._unmounting = false;
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
 
     _unmounting = false;
@@ -237,7 +241,7 @@ export class MapBoxContainer extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotata
             DragManager.StartAnchorAnnoDrag([ele], new DragManager.AnchorAnnoDragData(docView, sourceAnchorCreator, targetCreator), e.pageX, e.pageY, {
                 dragComplete: e => {
                     if (!e.aborted && e.annoDragData && e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc && e.annoDragData.dropDocument && e.linkDocument) {
-                        e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc.followLinkToggle = e.annoDragData.dropDocument.annotationOn === this._props.Document;
+                        e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc.followLinkToggle = e.annoDragData.dropDocument.annotationOn === this.Document;
                         e.annoDragData.linkSourceDoc.followLinkZoom = false;
                     }
                 },
@@ -374,7 +378,7 @@ export class MapBoxContainer extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotata
         }
     };
 
-    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (this._sidebarRef?.current?.makeDocUnfiltered(doc) && !this.SidebarShown) {
             this.toggleSidebar();
             options.didMove = true;
@@ -787,8 +791,8 @@ export class MapBoxContainer extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotata
                                           NativeWidth={returnOne}
                                           NativeHeight={returnOne}
                                           onKey={undefined}
-                                          onDoubleClick={undefined}
-                                          onBrowseClick={undefined}
+                                          onDoubleClickScript={undefined}
+                                          onBrowseClickScript={undefined}
                                           childFilters={returnEmptyFilter}
                                           childFiltersByRanges={returnEmptyFilter}
                                           searchFilterDocs={returnEmptyDoclist}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
index 7696a45a0..0eb3ffc3d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/PDFBox.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import * as Pdfjs from 'pdfjs-dist';
 import 'pdfjs-dist/web/pdf_viewer.css';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Opt } from '../../../fields/Doc';
+import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { InkTool } from '../../../fields/InkField';
 import { ComputedField } from '../../../fields/ScriptField';
@@ -22,19 +23,19 @@ import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm';
 import { CollectionStackingView } from '../collections/CollectionStackingView';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../DocComponent';
 import { Colors } from '../global/globalEnums';
 import { CreateImage } from '../nodes/WebBoxRenderer';
 import { PDFViewer } from '../pdf/PDFViewer';
 import { SidebarAnnos } from '../SidebarAnnos';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import { ImageBox } from './ImageBox';
 import './PDFBox.scss';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
 
 @observer
-export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(PDFBox, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         return ImageCast(this.layoutDoc['thumb-frozen'], ImageCast(this.layoutDoc.thumb))?.url;
     }
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
         const nw = Doc.NativeWidth(this.Document, this.dataDoc) || 927;
@@ -97,9 +98,10 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     crop = (region: Doc | undefined, addCrop?: boolean) => {
         if (!region) return;
         const cropping = Doc.MakeCopy(region, true);
-        Doc.GetProto(region).lockedPosition = true;
-        Doc.GetProto(region).title = 'region:' + this.Document.title;
-        Doc.GetProto(region).followLinkToggle = true;
+        const regionData = region[DocData];
+        regionData.lockedPosition = true;
+        regionData.title = 'region:' + this.Document.title;
+        regionData.followLinkToggle = true;
         this.addDocument(region);
 
         const docViewContent = this.DocumentView?.().ContentDiv!;
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         cropping._width = anchw;
         cropping._height = anchh;
         cropping.onClick = undefined;
-        const croppingProto = Doc.GetProto(cropping);
+        const croppingProto = cropping[DocData];
         croppingProto.annotationOn = undefined;
         croppingProto.isDataDoc = true;
         croppingProto.proto = Cast(this.Document.proto, Doc, null)?.proto; // set proto of cropping's data doc to be IMAGE_PROTO
@@ -191,7 +193,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         Object.values(this._disposers).forEach(disposer => disposer?.());
     }
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         this._disposers.select = reaction(
             () => this._props.isSelected(),
             () => {
@@ -219,12 +221,12 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         }
         return this._props.addDocTab(doc, where);
     };
-    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         this._initialScrollTarget = anchor;
         return this._pdfViewer?.scrollFocus(anchor, NumCast(anchor.y, NumCast(anchor.config_scrollTop)), options);
     };
 
-    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (this._sidebarRef?.current?.makeDocUnfiltered(doc) && !this.SidebarShown) {
             options.didMove = true;
             this.toggleSidebar(false);
@@ -528,7 +530,7 @@ export class PDFBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
                 <div onPointerDown={e => setupMoveUpEvents(this, e, returnFalse, emptyFunction, () => SelectionManager.SelectView(this.DocumentView?.()!, false), true)}>
                     <ComponentTag
                         {...this._props}
-                        setContentView={emptyFunction} // override setContentView to do nothing
+                        setContentViewBox={emptyFunction} // override setContentView to do nothing
                         NativeWidth={this.sidebarNativeWidthFunc}
                         NativeHeight={this.sidebarNativeHeightFunc}
                         PanelHeight={this._props.PanelHeight}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/RecordingBox/RecordingBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/RecordingBox/RecordingBox.tsx
index c04a81f7d..f6d94ce05 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/RecordingBox/RecordingBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/RecordingBox/RecordingBox.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { action, observable } from 'mobx';
+import { action, makeObservable, observable } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { DateField } from '../../../../fields/DateField';
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import { media_state } from '../AudioBox';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
 import { VideoBox } from '../VideoBox';
 import { RecordingView } from './RecordingView';
+import { DocData } from '../../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 
 @observer
 export class RecordingBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
@@ -30,8 +31,13 @@ export class RecordingBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
 
     private _ref: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement> = React.createRef();
 
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
+        super(props);
+        makeObservable(this);
+    }
+
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         Doc.SetNativeWidth(this.dataDoc, 1280);
         Doc.SetNativeHeight(this.dataDoc, 720);
     }
@@ -100,7 +106,7 @@ export class RecordingBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
                   });
         screengrabber.overlayX = 70; //was -400
         screengrabber.overlayY = 590; //was 0
-        Doc.GetProto(screengrabber)[Doc.LayoutFieldKey(screengrabber) + '_trackScreen'] = true;
+        screengrabber[DocData][Doc.LayoutFieldKey(screengrabber) + '_trackScreen'] = true;
         Doc.AddToMyOverlay(screengrabber); //just adds doc to overlay
         DocumentManager.Instance.AddViewRenderedCb(screengrabber, docView => {
             RecordingBox.screengrabber = docView.ComponentView as RecordingBox;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx
index f74e6fb2b..1e3933ac3 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/ScreenshotBox.tsx
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ import { TrackMovements } from '../../util/TrackMovements';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView';
 import { CollectionStackedTimeline } from '../collections/CollectionStackedTimeline';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent } from '../DocComponent';
 import { media_state } from './AudioBox';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './formattedText/FormattedTextBox';
 import './ScreenshotBox.scss';
 import { VideoBox } from './VideoBox';
+import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 
 declare class MediaRecorder {
     constructor(e: any, options?: any); // whatever MediaRecorder has
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ declare class MediaRecorder {
 // }
 
 @observer
-export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(ScreenshotBox, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
         return Cast(this.dataDoc[this._props.fieldKey + '_recordingStart'], DateField)?.date.getTime();
     }
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
         this.setupDictation();
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
 
     componentDidMount() {
         this.dataDoc.nativeWidth = this.dataDoc.nativeHeight = 0;
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this); // this tells the DocumentView that this ScreenshotBox is the "content" of the document.  this allows the DocumentView to indirectly call getAnchor() on the AudioBox when making a link.
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this); // this tells the DocumentView that this ScreenshotBox is the "content" of the document.  this allows the DocumentView to indirectly call getAnchor() on the AudioBox when making a link.
         // this.layoutDoc.videoWall && reaction(() => ({ width: this._props.PanelWidth(), height: this._props.PanelHeight() }),
         //     ({ width, height }) => {
         //         if (this._camera) {
@@ -281,7 +282,7 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
         const dictationText = DocUtils.GetNewTextDoc('dictation', NumCast(this.Document.x), NumCast(this.Document.y) + NumCast(this.layoutDoc._height) + 10, NumCast(this.layoutDoc._width), 2 * NumCast(this.layoutDoc._height));
         const textField = Doc.LayoutFieldKey(dictationText);
         dictationText._layout_autoHeight = false;
-        const dictationTextProto = Doc.GetProto(dictationText);
+        const dictationTextProto = dictationText[DocData];
         dictationTextProto[`${textField}_recordingSource`] = this.dataDoc;
         dictationTextProto[`${textField}_recordingStart`] = ComputedField.MakeFunction(`this.${textField}_recordingSource.${this.fieldKey}_recordingStart`);
         dictationTextProto.mediaState = ComputedField.MakeFunction(`this.${textField}_recordingSource.mediaState`);
@@ -297,7 +298,7 @@ export class ScreenshotBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatabl
                     <div style={{ position: 'relative', height: this.videoPanelHeight() }}>
                         <CollectionFreeFormView
                             {...this._props}
-                            setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                            setContentViewBox={emptyFunction}
                             NativeWidth={returnZero}
                             NativeHeight={returnZero}
                             PanelHeight={this.videoPanelHeight}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/ScriptingBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/ScriptingBox.tsx
index 73ad3a004..89650889d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/ScriptingBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/ScriptingBox.tsx
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { ScriptManager } from '../../util/ScriptManager';
 import { CompileScript, ScriptParam } from '../../util/Scripting';
 import { ScriptingGlobals } from '../../util/ScriptingGlobals';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent } from '../DocComponent';
 import { EditableView } from '../EditableView';
 import { OverlayView } from '../OverlayView';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import './ScriptingBox.scss';
 const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
 
 @observer
-export class ScriptingBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class ScriptingBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     private dropDisposer?: DragManager.DragDropDisposer;
     public static LayoutString(fieldStr: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(ScriptingBox, fieldStr);
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ export class ScriptingBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatable
     @observable private _scriptSuggestedParams: any = '';
     @observable private _scriptParamsText: any = '';
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
         if (!this.compileParams.length) {
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ export class ScriptingBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatable
 
     @action
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         this.rawText = this.rawScript;
         const observer = new _global.ResizeObserver(
             action((entries: any) => {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx
index 1913ab032..a6c524881 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/VideoBox.tsx
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import { basename } from 'path';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc, Opt, StrListCast } from '../../../fields/Doc';
+import { DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { InkTool } from '../../../fields/InkField';
 import { List } from '../../../fields/List';
 import { ObjectField } from '../../../fields/ObjectField';
-import { Cast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
+import { Cast, DocCast, NumCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { AudioField, ImageField, VideoField } from '../../../fields/URLField';
 import { emptyFunction, formatTime, returnEmptyString, returnFalse, returnOne, returnZero, setupMoveUpEvents, Utils } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../documents/Documents';
@@ -21,12 +22,12 @@ import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm/Collec
 import { CollectionStackedTimeline, TrimScope } from '../collections/CollectionStackedTimeline';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../DocComponent';
 import { MarqueeAnnotator } from '../MarqueeAnnotator';
 import { AnchorMenu } from '../pdf/AnchorMenu';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView } from './DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
+import { DocumentView } from './DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import { RecordingBox } from './RecordingBox';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
 import './VideoBox.scss';
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ import './VideoBox.scss';
  */
 
 @observer
-export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(VideoBox, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -61,10 +62,10 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
     private _playRegionTimer: any = null; // timeout for playback
     private _controlsFadeTimer: any = null; // timeout for controls fade
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
     }
 
     @observable _stackedTimeline: CollectionStackedTimeline | undefined = undefined; // CollectionStackedTimeline ref
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
 
     componentDidMount() {
         this.unmounting = false;
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this); // this tells the DocumentView that this VideoBox is the "content" of the document.  this allows the DocumentView to indirectly call getAnchor() on the VideoBox when making a link.
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this); // this tells the DocumentView that this VideoBox is the "content" of the document.  this allows the DocumentView to indirectly call getAnchor() on the VideoBox when making a link.
         this.player && this.setPlayheadTime(this.timeline?.clipStart || 0);
         document.addEventListener('keydown', this.keyEvents, true);
 
@@ -329,11 +330,11 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
             _height: (height / width) * 150,
             title: '--snapshot' + NumCast(this.layoutDoc._layout_currentTimecode) + ' image-',
         });
-        Doc.SetNativeWidth(Doc.GetProto(imageSnapshot), Doc.NativeWidth(this.layoutDoc));
-        Doc.SetNativeHeight(Doc.GetProto(imageSnapshot), Doc.NativeHeight(this.layoutDoc));
+        Doc.SetNativeWidth(imageSnapshot[DocData], Doc.NativeWidth(this.layoutDoc));
+        Doc.SetNativeHeight(imageSnapshot[DocData], Doc.NativeHeight(this.layoutDoc));
         this._props.addDocument?.(imageSnapshot);
         const link = DocUtils.MakeLink(imageSnapshot, this.getAnchor(true), { link_relationship: 'video snapshot' });
-        link && (Doc.GetProto(link.link_anchor_2 as Doc).timecodeToHide = NumCast((link.link_anchor_2 as Doc).timecodeToShow) + 3);
+        link && (DocCast(link.link_anchor_2)[DocData].timecodeToHide = NumCast(DocCast(link.link_anchor_2).timecodeToShow) + 3);
         setTimeout(() => downX !== undefined && downY !== undefined && DocumentManager.Instance.getFirstDocumentView(imageSnapshot)?.startDragging(downX, downY, 'move', true));
     };
 
@@ -368,7 +369,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         !this.unmounting && this.player && (this.layoutDoc._layout_currentTimecode = this.player.currentTime);
     };
 
-    getView = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    getView = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (this._stackedTimeline?.makeDocUnfiltered(doc)) {
             if (this.heightPercent === 100) {
                 this.layoutDoc._layout_timelineHeightPercent = VideoBox.heightPercent;
@@ -738,7 +739,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
     zoom = (zoom: number) => this.timeline?.setZoom(zoom);
 
     // plays link
-    playLink = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    playLink = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         const startTime = Math.max(0, NumCast(doc.config_clipStart, this._stackedTimeline?.anchorStart(doc) || 0));
         const endTime = this.timeline?.anchorEnd(doc);
         if (startTime !== undefined) {
@@ -885,10 +886,11 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
     crop = (region: Doc | undefined, addCrop?: boolean) => {
         if (!region) return;
         const cropping = Doc.MakeCopy(region, true);
-        Doc.GetProto(region).backgroundColor = 'transparent';
-        Doc.GetProto(region).lockedPosition = true;
-        Doc.GetProto(region).title = 'region:' + this.Document.title;
-        Doc.GetProto(region).followLinkToggle = true;
+        const regionData = region[DocData];
+        regionData.backgroundColor = 'transparent';
+        regionData.lockedPosition = true;
+        regionData.title = 'region:' + this.Document.title;
+        regionData.followLinkToggle = true;
         region._timecodeToHide = NumCast(region._timecodeToShow) + 0.0001;
         this.addDocument(region);
         const anchx = NumCast(cropping.x);
@@ -904,7 +906,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
         cropping.timecodeToHide = undefined;
         cropping.timecodeToShow = undefined;
         cropping.onClick = undefined;
-        const croppingProto = Doc.GetProto(cropping);
+        const croppingProto = cropping[DocData];
         croppingProto.annotationOn = undefined;
         croppingProto.isDataDoc = true;
         croppingProto.proto = Cast(this.Document.proto, Doc, null)?.proto; // set proto of cropping's data doc to be IMAGE_PROTO
@@ -955,7 +957,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
                         }}>
                         <CollectionFreeFormView
                             {...this._props}
-                            setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                            setContentViewBox={emptyFunction}
                             NativeWidth={returnZero}
                             NativeHeight={returnZero}
                             renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
@@ -1004,7 +1006,7 @@ export class VideoBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProp
     }
 
     @computed get UIButtons() {
-        const bounds = this.DocumentView?.().getBounds();
+        const bounds = this.DocumentView?.().getBounds;
         const width = (bounds?.right || 0) - (bounds?.left || 0);
         const curTime = NumCast(this.layoutDoc._layout_currentTimecode);
         return (
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx
index b62d32503..5776cf6a6 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/WebBox.tsx
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import { MarqueeOptionsMenu } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../ContextMenuItem';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../DocComponent';
 import { Colors } from '../global/globalEnums';
 import { LightboxView } from '../LightboxView';
 import { MarqueeAnnotator } from '../MarqueeAnnotator';
@@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ import { Annotation } from '../pdf/Annotation';
 import { GPTPopup } from '../pdf/GPTPopup/GPTPopup';
 import { SidebarAnnos } from '../SidebarAnnos';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
-import { DocComponentView, DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere } from './DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from './FieldView';
 import { LinkInfo } from './LinkDocPreview';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from './trails';
 import './WebBox.scss';
 const { CreateImage } = require('./WebBoxRenderer');
 const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
 @observer
-export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps>() {
+export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(WebBox, fieldKey);
     }
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         return Cast(this.Document[this._props.fieldKey], WebField)?.url;
     }
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
         this._webUrl = this._url; // setting the weburl will change the src parameter of the embedded iframe and force a navigation to it.
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     };
 
     componentDidMount() {
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this); // this tells the DocumentView that this WebBox is the "content" of the document.  this allows the DocumentView to call WebBox relevant methods to configure the UI (eg, show back/forward buttons)
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this); // this tells the DocumentView that this WebBox is the "content" of the document.  this allows the DocumentView to call WebBox relevant methods to configure the UI (eg, show back/forward buttons)
 
         runInAction(() => {
             this._annotationKeySuffix = () => (this._urlHash ? this._urlHash + '_' : '') + 'annotations';
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
         return this._savedAnnotations;
     };
 
-    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focus = (anchor: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (anchor !== this.Document && this._outerRef.current) {
             const windowHeight = this._props.PanelHeight() / (this._props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1);
             const scrollTo = Utils.scrollIntoView(NumCast(anchor.y), NumCast(anchor._height), NumCast(this.layoutDoc._layout_scrollTop), windowHeight, windowHeight * 0.1, Math.max(NumCast(anchor.y) + NumCast(anchor._height), this._scrollHeight));
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     };
 
     @action
-    getView = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    getView = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (Doc.AreProtosEqual(doc, this.Document)) return new Promise<Opt<DocumentView>>(res => res(this.DocumentView?.()));
         if (this.Document.layout_fieldKey === 'layout_icon') this.DocumentView?.().iconify();
         const webUrl = WebCast(doc.config_data)?.url;
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     };
     _innerCollectionView: CollectionFreeFormView | undefined;
     zoomScaling = () => this._innerCollectionView?.zoomScaling() ?? 1;
-    setInnerContent = (component: DocComponentView) => (this._innerCollectionView = component as CollectionFreeFormView);
+    setInnerContent = (component: ViewBoxInterface) => (this._innerCollectionView = component as CollectionFreeFormView);
 
     @computed get content() {
         const interactive = this._props.isContentActive() && this._props.pointerEvents?.() !== 'none' && Doc.ActiveTool === InkTool.None;
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ export class WebBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps
     renderAnnotations = (childFilters: () => string[]) => (
         <CollectionFreeFormView
             {...this._props}
-            setContentView={this.setInnerContent}
+            setContentViewBox={this.setInnerContent}
             NativeWidth={returnZero}
             NativeHeight={returnZero}
             originTopLeft={false}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/calendarBox/CalendarBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/calendarBox/CalendarBox.tsx
index 4fb1a7f17..748c3322e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/calendarBox/CalendarBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/calendarBox/CalendarBox.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ export class CalendarBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(CalendarBox, fieldKey);
     }
 
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
+        super(props);
+        makeObservable(this);
+    }
+
     componentDidMount(): void {}
 
     componentWillUnmount(): void {}
@@ -105,11 +110,6 @@ export class CalendarBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
         });
     }
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
-        super(props);
-        makeObservable(this);
-    }
-
     render() {
         return (
             <div className="calendar-box-conatiner">
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx
index 4ae12505e..bc49ed23d 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashDocView.tsx
@@ -6,12 +6,13 @@ import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client';
 import { Doc } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
 import { Height, Width } from '../../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { NumCast } from '../../../../fields/Types';
-import { emptyFunction, returnEmptyDoclist, returnFalse, Utils } from '../../../../Utils';
+import { emptyFunction, returnFalse, Utils } from '../../../../Utils';
 import { DocServer } from '../../../DocServer';
 import { Docs, DocUtils } from '../../../documents/Documents';
 import { Transform } from '../../../util/Transform';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../../ObservableReactComponent';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, returnEmptyDocViewList } from '../DocumentView';
+import { DocumentView } from '../DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions } from '../FieldView';
 import { FormattedTextBox } from './FormattedTextBox';
 
 var horizPadding = 3; // horizontal padding to container to allow cursor to show up on either side.
@@ -159,7 +160,7 @@ export class DashDocViewInternal extends ObservableReactComponent<IDashDocViewIn
         const { scale, translateX, translateY } = Utils.GetScreenTransform(this._spanRef.current);
         return new Transform(-translateX, -translateY, 1).scale(1 / scale);
     };
-    outerFocus = (target: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => this._textBox.focus(target, options); // ideally, this would scroll to show the focus target
+    outerFocus = (target: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => this._textBox.focus(target, options); // ideally, this would scroll to show the focus target
 
     onKeyDown = (e: any) => {
         e.stopPropagation();
@@ -178,9 +179,6 @@ export class DashDocViewInternal extends ObservableReactComponent<IDashDocViewIn
         ele && (ele.style.backgroundColor = 'orange');
     };
 
-    @computed get childContainerViewPath() {
-        return this._textBox.DocumentView?.().docViewPath ?? returnEmptyDocViewList;
-    }
     componentWillUnmount = () => Object.values(this._disposers).forEach(disposer => disposer?.());
     isContentActive = () => this._props.tbox._props.isContentActive() || this._props.tbox.isAnyChildContentActive?.();
 
@@ -210,7 +208,7 @@ export class DashDocViewInternal extends ObservableReactComponent<IDashDocViewIn
                     isDocumentActive={returnFalse}
                     isContentActive={this.isContentActive}
                     styleProvider={this._textBox._props.styleProvider}
-                    containerViewPath={this.childContainerViewPath}
+                    containerViewPath={this._textBox.DocumentView?.().docViewPath}
                     ScreenToLocalTransform={this.getDocTransform}
                     addDocTab={this._textBox._props.addDocTab}
                     pinToPres={returnFalse}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
index 65898d568..38400d2e7 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 import { BsMarkdownFill } from 'react-icons/bs';
 import { DateField } from '../../../../fields/DateField';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, Field, Opt } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
-import { AclAdmin, AclAugment, AclEdit, AclSelfEdit, DocCss, ForceServerWrite, UpdatingFromServer } from '../../../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { AclAdmin, AclAugment, AclEdit, AclSelfEdit, DocCss, DocData, ForceServerWrite, UpdatingFromServer } from '../../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Id } from '../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { InkTool } from '../../../../fields/InkField';
 import { List } from '../../../../fields/List';
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ import { CollectionStackingView } from '../../collections/CollectionStackingView
 import { CollectionTreeView } from '../../collections/CollectionTreeView';
 import { ContextMenu } from '../../ContextMenu';
 import { ContextMenuProps } from '../../ContextMenuItem';
-import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxAnnotatableProps } from '../../DocComponent';
+import { ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent, ViewBoxInterface } from '../../DocComponent';
 import { Colors } from '../../global/globalEnums';
 import { LightboxView } from '../../LightboxView';
 import { AnchorMenu } from '../../pdf/AnchorMenu';
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ import { GPTPopup } from '../../pdf/GPTPopup/GPTPopup';
 import { SidebarAnnos } from '../../SidebarAnnos';
 import { StyleProp } from '../../StyleProvider';
 import { media_state } from '../AudioBox';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere } from '../DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
+import { DocumentView, DocumentViewInternal, OpenWhere } from '../DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
 import { LinkInfo } from '../LinkDocPreview';
 import { PinProps, PresBox } from '../trails';
 import { DashDocCommentView } from './DashDocCommentView';
@@ -68,10 +68,8 @@ import { RichTextRules } from './RichTextRules';
 import { schema } from './schema_rts';
 import { SummaryView } from './SummaryView';
 // import * as applyDevTools from 'prosemirror-dev-tools';
-
-export interface FormattedTextBoxProps {}
 @observer
-export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotatableProps & FieldViewProps & FormattedTextBoxProps>() {
+export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<FieldViewProps>() implements ViewBoxInterface {
     public static LayoutString(fieldStr: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(FormattedTextBox, fieldStr);
     }
@@ -202,7 +200,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
         return url.startsWith(document.location.origin) ? new URL(url).pathname.split('doc/').lastElement() : ''; // docId
     }
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
         FormattedTextBox.Instance = this;
@@ -271,14 +269,15 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
                 if (target) {
                     anchor.followLinkAudio = true;
                     let stopFunc: any;
-                    Doc.GetProto(target).mediaState = media_state.Recording;
-                    Doc.GetProto(target).audioAnnoState = 'recording';
-                    DocumentViewInternal.recordAudioAnnotation(Doc.GetProto(target), Doc.LayoutFieldKey(target), stop => (stopFunc = stop));
+                    const targetData = target[DocData];
+                    targetData.mediaState = media_state.Recording;
+                    targetData.audioAnnoState = 'recording';
+                    DocumentViewInternal.recordAudioAnnotation(targetData, Doc.LayoutFieldKey(target), stop => (stopFunc = stop));
                     let reactionDisposer = reaction(
                         () => target.mediaState,
                         action(dictation => {
                             if (!dictation) {
-                                Doc.GetProto(target).audioAnnoState = 'stopped';
+                                targetData.audioAnnoState = 'stopped';
                                 stopFunc();
                                 reactionDisposer();
                             }
@@ -433,7 +432,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
 
     autoLink = () => {
         const newAutoLinks = new Set<Doc>();
-        const oldAutoLinks = LinkManager.Links(this._props.Document).filter(link => link.link_relationship === LinkManager.AutoKeywords);
+        const oldAutoLinks = LinkManager.Links(this.Document).filter(link => link.link_relationship === LinkManager.AutoKeywords);
         if (this._editorView?.state.doc.textContent) {
             const isNodeSel = this._editorView.state.selection instanceof NodeSelection;
             const f = this._editorView.state.selection.from;
@@ -451,7 +450,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
     updateTitle = () => {
         const title = StrCast(this.dataDoc.title, Cast(this.dataDoc.title, RichTextField, null)?.Text);
         if (
-            !this._props.dontRegisterView && // (this._props.Document.isTemplateForField === "text" || !this._props.Document.isTemplateForField) && // only update the title if the data document's data field is changing
+            !this._props.dontRegisterView && // (this.Document.isTemplateForField === "text" || !this.Document.isTemplateForField) && // only update the title if the data document's data field is changing
             (title.startsWith('-') || title.startsWith('@')) &&
             this._editorView &&
             !this.dataDoc.title_custom &&
@@ -494,7 +493,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
                                     DocUtils.MakeLink(this.Document, target, { link_relationship: LinkManager.AutoKeywords })!);
                             newAutoLinks.add(alink);
                             // DocCast(alink.link_anchor_1).followLinkLocation = 'add:right';
-                            const allAnchors = [{ href: Doc.localServerPath(target), title: 'a link', anchorId: this._props.Document[Id] }];
+                            const allAnchors = [{ href: Doc.localServerPath(target), title: 'a link', anchorId: this.Document[Id] }];
                             allAnchors.push(...(node.marks.find((m: Mark) => m.type.name === schema.marks.autoLinkAnchor.name)?.attrs.allAnchors ?? []));
                             const link = editorView.state.schema.marks.autoLinkAnchor.create({ allAnchors, title: 'auto term' });
                             tr = tr.addMark(pos, pos + node.nodeSize, link);
@@ -578,7 +577,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
                 // replace text contents when dragging with Alt
                 if (de.altKey) {
                     const fieldKey = Doc.LayoutFieldKey(draggedDoc);
-                    if (draggedDoc[fieldKey] instanceof RichTextField && !Doc.AreProtosEqual(draggedDoc, this._props.Document)) {
+                    if (draggedDoc[fieldKey] instanceof RichTextField && !Doc.AreProtosEqual(draggedDoc, this.Document)) {
                         Doc.GetProto(this.dataDoc)[this.fieldKey] = Field.Copy(draggedDoc[fieldKey]);
                     }
 
@@ -991,7 +990,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
                 };
                 const link = DocUtils.MakeLinkToActiveAudio(textanchorFunc, false).lastElement();
                 if (link) {
-                    Doc.GetProto(link).isDictation = true;
+                    link[DocData].isDictation = true;
                     const audioanchor = Cast(link.link_anchor_2, Doc, null);
                     const textanchor = Cast(link.link_anchor_1, Doc, null);
                     if (audioanchor) {
@@ -1001,7 +1000,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
                             audioId: audioanchor[Id],
                             textId: textanchor[Id],
                         });
-                        Doc.GetProto(textanchor).title = 'dictation:' + audiotag.attrs.timeCode;
+                        textanchor[DocData].title = 'dictation:' + audiotag.attrs.timeCode;
                         const tr = this._editorView.state.tr.insert(this._editorView.state.doc.content.size, audiotag);
                         const tr2 = tr.setSelection(TextSelection.create(tr.doc, tr.doc.content.size));
                         this._editorView.dispatch(tr.setSelection(TextSelection.create(tr2.doc, tr2.doc.content.size)));
@@ -1056,7 +1055,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
         return anchorDoc ?? this.Document;
     }
 
-    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    getView = async (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         if (DocListCast(this.dataDoc[this.SidebarKey]).find(anno => Doc.AreProtosEqual(doc.layout_unrendered ? DocCast(doc.annotationOn) : doc, anno))) {
             if (!this.SidebarShown) {
                 this.toggleSidebar(false);
@@ -1066,7 +1065,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
         }
         return new Promise<Opt<DocumentView>>(res => DocumentManager.Instance.AddViewRenderedCb(doc, dv => res(dv)));
     };
-    focus = (textAnchor: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focus = (textAnchor: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         const focusSpeed = options.zoomTime ?? 500;
         const textAnchorId = textAnchor[Id];
         const findAnchorFrag = (frag: Fragment, editor: EditorView) => {
@@ -1141,7 +1140,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
         return Doc.NativeAspect(this.Document, this.dataDoc, false) ? this._props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1 : 1;
     }
     componentDidMount() {
-        !this._props.dontSelectOnLoad && this._props.setContentView?.(this); // this tells the DocumentView that this AudioBox is the "content" of the document.  this allows the DocumentView to indirectly call getAnchor() on the AudioBox when making a link.
+        !this._props.dontSelectOnLoad && this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this); // this tells the DocumentView that this AudioBox is the "content" of the document.  this allows the DocumentView to indirectly call getAnchor() on the AudioBox when making a link.
         this._cachedLinks = LinkManager.Links(this.Document);
         this._disposers.breakupDictation = reaction(() => Doc.RecordingEvent, this.breakupDictation);
         this._disposers.layout_autoHeight = reaction(
@@ -1777,7 +1776,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
             }
         }
     };
-    fitContentsToBox = () => BoolCast(this._props.Document._freeform_fitContentsToBox);
+    fitContentsToBox = () => BoolCast(this.Document._freeform_fitContentsToBox);
     sidebarContentScaling = () => (this._props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1) * NumCast(this.layoutDoc._freeform_scale, 1);
     sidebarAddDocument = (doc: Doc | Doc[], sidebarKey: string = this.SidebarKey) => {
         if (!this.layoutDoc._layout_showSidebar) this.toggleSidebar();
@@ -2011,7 +2010,7 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<ViewBoxAnnotat
                         cursor: this._props.isContentActive() ? 'text' : undefined,
                         height: this._props.height ? 'max-content' : undefined,
                         overflow: this.layout_autoHeight ? 'hidden' : undefined,
-                        pointerEvents: Doc.ActiveTool === InkTool.None && !this._props.onBrowseClick?.() ? undefined : 'none',
+                        pointerEvents: Doc.ActiveTool === InkTool.None && !this._props.onBrowseClickScript?.() ? undefined : 'none',
                     }}
                     onContextMenu={this.specificContextMenu}
                     onKeyDown={this.onKeyDown}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/importBox/ImportElementBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/importBox/ImportElementBox.tsx
index 7d0086c0c..6e7c3e612 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/importBox/ImportElementBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/importBox/ImportElementBox.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { computed } from 'mobx';
+import { computed, makeObservable } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { returnFalse } from '../../../../Utils';
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ export class ImportElementBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     public static LayoutString(fieldKey: string) {
         return FieldView.LayoutString(ImportElementBox, fieldKey);
     }
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
+        super(props);
+        makeObservable(this);
+    }
 
     screenToLocalXf = () => this.ScreenToLocalBoxXf().scale(1 * (this._props.NativeDimScaling?.() || 1));
     @computed get mainItem() {
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
index 645ac08e1..9e5ea9524 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresBox.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { action, computed, IReactionDisposer, makeObservable, observable, Observ
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc, DocListCast, FieldResult, NumListCast, Opt, StrListCast } from '../../../../fields/Doc';
-import { Animation } from '../../../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { Animation, DocData } from '../../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Copy, Id } from '../../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { InkField } from '../../../../fields/InkField';
 import { List } from '../../../../fields/List';
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ import { TreeView } from '../../collections/TreeView';
 import { ViewBoxBaseComponent } from '../../DocComponent';
 import { Colors } from '../../global/globalEnums';
 import { LightboxView } from '../../LightboxView';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentView, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod } from '../DocumentView';
-import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
+import { DocumentView, OpenWhere, OpenWhereMod } from '../DocumentView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../FieldView';
 import { ScriptingBox } from '../ScriptingBox';
 import './PresBox.scss';
 import { PresEffect, PresEffectDirection, PresMovement, PresStatus } from './PresEnums';
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     }
     static navigateToDocScript: ScriptField;
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
         if (!PresBox.navigateToDocScript) {
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
             },
             { fireImmediately: true }
         );
-        this._props.setContentView?.(this);
+        this._props.setContentViewBox?.(this);
         this._unmounting = false;
         this.turnOffEdit(true);
         this._disposers.selection = reaction(
@@ -438,9 +438,10 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
             const setData = bestTargetView?.ComponentView?.setData;
             if (setData) setData(activeItem.config_data);
             else {
-                const current = Doc.GetProto(bestTarget)[fkey];
-                Doc.GetProto(bestTarget)[fkey + '_' + Date.now()] = current instanceof ObjectField ? current[Copy]() : current;
-                Doc.GetProto(bestTarget)[fkey] = activeItem.config_data instanceof ObjectField ? activeItem.config_data[Copy]() : activeItem.config_data;
+                const bestTargetData = bestTarget[DocData];
+                const current = bestTargetData[fkey];
+                bestTargetData[fkey + '_' + Date.now()] = current instanceof ObjectField ? current[Copy]() : current;
+                bestTargetData[fkey] = activeItem.config_data instanceof ObjectField ? activeItem.config_data[Copy]() : activeItem.config_data;
             }
             bestTarget[fkey + '_usePath'] = activeItem.config_usePath;
             setTimeout(() => (bestTarget._dataTransition = undefined), transTime + 10);
@@ -498,11 +499,11 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
         }
         if (pinDataTypes?.inkable || (!pinDataTypes && (activeItem.config_fillColor !== undefined || activeItem.color !== undefined))) {
             if (bestTarget.fillColor !== activeItem.config_fillColor) {
-                Doc.GetProto(bestTarget).fillColor = StrCast(activeItem.config_fillColor, StrCast(bestTarget.fillColor));
+                bestTarget[DocData].fillColor = StrCast(activeItem.config_fillColor, StrCast(bestTarget.fillColor));
                 changed = true;
             }
             if (bestTarget.color !== activeItem.config_color) {
-                Doc.GetProto(bestTarget).color = StrCast(activeItem.config_color, StrCast(bestTarget.color));
+                bestTarget[DocData].color = StrCast(activeItem.config_color, StrCast(bestTarget.color));
                 changed = true;
             }
             if (bestTarget.width !== activeItem.width) {
@@ -559,7 +560,7 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
                     return doc;
                 });
             const newList = new List<Doc>([...oldItems, ...hiddenItems, ...newItems]);
-            Doc.GetProto(bestTarget)[fkey + '_annotations'] = newList;
+            bestTarget[DocData][fkey + '_annotations'] = newList;
         }
         if (pinDataTypes?.poslayoutview || (!pinDataTypes && activeItem.config_pinLayoutData !== undefined)) {
             changed = true;
@@ -580,9 +581,9 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
                         data.fill && (doc._fillColor = data.fill);
                         doc._width = data.w;
                         doc._height = data.h;
-                        data.data && (Doc.GetProto(doc).data = field);
-                        data.text && (Doc.GetProto(doc).text = tfield);
-                        Doc.AddDocToList(Doc.GetProto(bestTarget), layoutField, doc);
+                        data.data && (doc[DocData].data = field);
+                        data.text && (doc[DocData].text = tfield);
+                        Doc.AddDocToList(bestTarget[DocData], layoutField, doc);
                     }
                 });
             setTimeout(() => Array.from(transitioned).forEach(action(doc => (doc._dataTransition = undefined))), transTime + 10);
@@ -648,7 +649,7 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
             }
             if (pinProps.pinData.dataannos) {
                 const fkey = Doc.LayoutFieldKey(targetDoc);
-                pinDoc.config_annotations = new List<Doc>(DocListCast(Doc.GetProto(targetDoc)[fkey + '_annotations']).filter(doc => !doc.layout_unrendered));
+                pinDoc.config_annotations = new List<Doc>(DocListCast(targetDoc[DocData][fkey + '_annotations']).filter(doc => !doc.layout_unrendered));
             }
             if (pinProps.pinData.inkable) {
                 pinDoc.config_fillColor = targetDoc.fillColor;
@@ -763,7 +764,7 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
         }
         const effect = activeItem.presentation_effect && activeItem.presentation_effect !== PresEffect.None ? activeItem.presentation_effect : undefined;
         const presTime = NumCast(activeItem.presentation_transition, effect ? 750 : 500);
-        const options: DocFocusOptions = {
+        const options: FocusViewOptions = {
             willPan: activeItem.presentation_movement !== PresMovement.None,
             willZoomCentered: activeItem.presentation_movement === PresMovement.Zoom || activeItem.presentation_movement === PresMovement.Jump || activeItem.presentation_movement === PresMovement.Center,
             zoomScale: activeItem.presentation_movement === PresMovement.Center ? 0 : NumCast(activeItem.config_zoom, 1),
@@ -1115,7 +1116,7 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
         presDocView && SelectionManager.SelectView(presDocView, false);
     };
 
-    focusElement = (doc: Doc, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    focusElement = (doc: Doc, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         this.selectElement(doc);
         return undefined;
     };
@@ -2605,7 +2606,7 @@ export class PresBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
                                 moveDocument={returnFalse}
                                 ignoreUnrendered={true}
                                 childDragAction="move"
-                                setContentView={emptyFunction}
+                                setContentViewBox={emptyFunction}
                                 //childLayoutFitWidth={returnTrue}
                                 childOpacity={returnOne}
                                 childClickScript={PresBox.navigateToDocScript}
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
index 4bc79176e..7e68711fa 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/trails/PresElementBox.tsx
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export class PresElementBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<FieldViewProps>() {
     readonly expandViewHeight = 100;
     readonly collapsedHeight = 35;
 
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: FieldViewProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
     }
diff --git a/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx b/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
index 01590749e..ba7286111 100644
--- a/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/pdf/PDFViewer.tsx
@@ -17,16 +17,15 @@ import { SnappingManager } from '../../util/SnappingManager';
 import { MarqueeOptionsMenu } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm';
 import { CollectionFreeFormView } from '../collections/collectionFreeForm/CollectionFreeFormView';
 import { MarqueeAnnotator } from '../MarqueeAnnotator';
-import { DocFocusOptions, DocumentViewProps } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
-import { FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
+import { FocusViewOptions, FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import { LinkInfo } from '../nodes/LinkDocPreview';
+import { PDFBox } from '../nodes/PDFBox';
 import { ObservableReactComponent } from '../ObservableReactComponent';
 import { StyleProp } from '../StyleProvider';
 import { AnchorMenu } from './AnchorMenu';
 import { Annotation } from './Annotation';
 import { GPTPopup } from './GPTPopup/GPTPopup';
 import './PDFViewer.scss';
-import { PDFBox } from '../nodes/PDFBox';
 const _global = (window /* browser */ || global) /* node */ as any;
 
 //pdfjsLib.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = `/assets/pdf.worker.js`;
@@ -172,7 +171,7 @@ export class PDFViewer extends ObservableReactComponent<IViewerProps> {
 
     // scrolls to focus on a nested annotation document.  if this is part a link preview then it will jump to the scroll location,
     // otherwise it will scroll smoothly.
-    scrollFocus = (doc: Doc, scrollTop: number, options: DocFocusOptions) => {
+    scrollFocus = (doc: Doc, scrollTop: number, options: FocusViewOptions) => {
         const mainCont = this._mainCont.current;
         let focusSpeed: Opt<number>;
         if (doc !== this._props.Document && mainCont) {
@@ -521,7 +520,7 @@ export class PDFViewer extends ObservableReactComponent<IViewerProps> {
                 {...this._props}
                 NativeWidth={returnZero}
                 NativeHeight={returnZero}
-                setContentView={emptyFunction} // override setContentView to do nothing
+                setContentViewBox={emptyFunction} // override setContentView to do nothing
                 pointerEvents={this._props.isContentActive() && (SnappingManager.IsDragging || Doc.ActiveTool !== InkTool.None) ? returnAll : returnNone} // freeform view doesn't get events unless something is being dragged onto it.
                 childPointerEvents={this.childPointerEvents} // but freeform children need to get events to allow text editing, etc
                 renderDepth={this._props.renderDepth + 1}
diff --git a/src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx b/src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx
index 4d29573d4..5dc4f5550 100644
--- a/src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/search/SearchBox.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { action, computed, makeObservable, observable } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { Doc, DocListCastAsync, Field } from '../../../fields/Doc';
-import { DirectLinks } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
+import { DirectLinks, DocData } from '../../../fields/DocSymbols';
 import { Id } from '../../../fields/FieldSymbols';
 import { DocCast, StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { DocumentType } from '../../documents/DocumentTypes';
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ export class SearchBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<SearchBoxProps>() {
     /**
      * This is the constructor for the SearchBox class.
      */
-    constructor(props: any) {
+    constructor(props: SearchBoxProps) {
         super(props);
         makeObservable(this);
         SearchBox.Instance = this;
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ export class SearchBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<SearchBoxProps>() {
         this._results.forEach((_, doc) => {
             this._pageRanks.set(doc, 1.0 / this._results.size);
 
-            if (Doc.GetProto(doc)[DirectLinks].size === 0) {
+            if (doc[DocData][DirectLinks].size === 0) {
                 this._linkedDocsOut.set(doc, new Set(this._results.keys()));
 
                 this._results.forEach((_, linkedDoc) => {
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ export class SearchBox extends ViewBoxBaseComponent<SearchBoxProps>() {
             } else {
                 const linkedDocSet = new Set<Doc>();
 
-                Doc.GetProto(doc)[DirectLinks].forEach(link => {
+                doc[DocData][DirectLinks].forEach(link => {
                     const d1 = link?.link_anchor_1 as Doc;
                     const d2 = link?.link_anchor_2 as Doc;
                     if (doc === d1 && this._results.has(d2)) {
diff --git a/src/client/views/selectedDoc/SelectedDocView.tsx b/src/client/views/selectedDoc/SelectedDocView.tsx
index 39e778b76..c9c01189e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/selectedDoc/SelectedDocView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/selectedDoc/SelectedDocView.tsx
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-import * as React from 'react';
 import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome';
 import { ListBox } from 'browndash-components';
 import { computed } from 'mobx';
 import { observer } from 'mobx-react';
+import * as React from 'react';
+import { emptyFunction } from '../../../Utils';
 import { Doc } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { StrCast } from '../../../fields/Types';
 import { DocumentManager } from '../../util/DocumentManager';
-import { DocFocusOptions } from '../nodes/DocumentView';
-import { emptyFunction } from '../../../Utils';
 import { SettingsManager } from '../../util/SettingsManager';
+import { FocusViewOptions } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 
 export interface SelectedDocViewProps {
     selectedDocs: Doc[];
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export class SelectedDocView extends React.Component<SelectedDocViewProps> {
             <div className="selectedDocView-container">
                 <ListBox
                     items={this.selectedDocs.map(doc => {
-                        const options: DocFocusOptions = {
+                        const options: FocusViewOptions = {
                             playAudio: false,
                             playMedia: false,
                             willPan: true,
diff --git a/src/client/views/webcam/DashWebRTCVideo.tsx b/src/client/views/webcam/DashWebRTCVideo.tsx
index 94458563e..4e984f3d6 100644
--- a/src/client/views/webcam/DashWebRTCVideo.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/webcam/DashWebRTCVideo.tsx
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import { Doc } from '../../../fields/Doc';
 import { InkTool } from '../../../fields/InkField';
 import { SnappingManager } from '../../util/SnappingManager';
 import '../../views/nodes/WebBox.scss';
-import { CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps } from '../nodes/CollectionFreeFormDocumentView';
 import { FieldView, FieldViewProps } from '../nodes/FieldView';
 import './DashWebRTCVideo.scss';
 import { hangup, initialize, refreshVideos } from './WebCamLogic';
@@ -17,14 +16,12 @@ import { hangup, initialize, refreshVideos } from './WebCamLogic';
  * This models the component that will be rendered, that can be used as a doc that will reflect the video cams.
  */
 @observer
-export class DashWebRTCVideo extends React.Component<CollectionFreeFormDocumentViewProps & FieldViewProps> {
+export class DashWebRTCVideo extends React.Component<FieldViewProps> {
     private roomText: HTMLInputElement | undefined;
     @observable remoteVideoAdded: boolean = false;
 
     @action
-    changeUILook = () => {
-        this.remoteVideoAdded = true;
-    };
+    changeUILook = () => (this.remoteVideoAdded = true);
 
     /**
      * Function that submits the title entered by user on enter press.
@@ -42,14 +39,9 @@ export class DashWebRTCVideo extends React.Component<CollectionFreeFormDocumentV
         return FieldView.LayoutString(DashWebRTCVideo, fieldKey);
     }
 
-    @action
-    onClickRefresh = () => {
-        refreshVideos();
-    };
+    onClickRefresh = () => refreshVideos();
 
-    onClickHangUp = () => {
-        hangup();
-    };
+    onClickHangUp = () => hangup();
 
     render() {
         const content = (
diff --git a/src/fields/Doc.ts b/src/fields/Doc.ts
index 9c2350bd0..ff416bbe7 100644
--- a/src/fields/Doc.ts
+++ b/src/fields/Doc.ts
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import { BoolCast, Cast, DocCast, FieldValue, NumCast, StrCast, ToConstructor }
 import { AudioField, CsvField, ImageField, PdfField, VideoField, WebField } from './URLField';
 import { containedFieldChangedHandler, deleteProperty, GetEffectiveAcl, getField, getter, makeEditable, makeReadOnly, setter, SharingPermissions } from './util';
 import * as JSZip from 'jszip';
+import { FieldViewProps } from '../client/views/nodes/FieldView';
 export const LinkedTo = '-linkedTo';
 export namespace Field {
     export function toKeyValueString(doc: Doc, key: string): string {
@@ -423,7 +424,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
     //
     export async function SetInPlace(doc: Doc, key: string, value: Field | undefined, defaultProto: boolean) {
         if (key.startsWith('_')) key = key.substring(1);
-        const hasProto = Doc.GetProto(doc) !== doc ? Doc.GetProto(doc) : undefined;
+        const hasProto = doc[DocData] !== doc ? doc[DocData] : undefined;
         const onDeleg = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(doc).indexOf(key) !== -1;
         const onProto = hasProto && Object.getOwnPropertyNames(hasProto).indexOf(key) !== -1;
         if (onDeleg || !hasProto || (!onProto && !defaultProto)) {
@@ -510,7 +511,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
     export function RemoveDocFromList(listDoc: Doc, fieldKey: string | undefined, doc: Doc) {
         const key = fieldKey ? fieldKey : Doc.LayoutFieldKey(listDoc);
         if (listDoc[key] === undefined) {
-            Doc.GetProto(listDoc)[key] = new List<Doc>();
+            listDoc[DocData][key] = new List<Doc>();
         }
         const list = Cast(listDoc[key], listSpec(Doc));
         if (list) {
@@ -530,7 +531,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
     export function AddDocToList(listDoc: Doc, fieldKey: string | undefined, doc: Doc, relativeTo?: Doc, before?: boolean, first?: boolean, allowDuplicates?: boolean, reversed?: boolean) {
         const key = fieldKey ? fieldKey : Doc.LayoutFieldKey(listDoc);
         if (listDoc[key] === undefined) {
-            Doc.GetProto(listDoc)[key] = new List<Doc>();
+            listDoc[DocData][key] = new List<Doc>();
         }
         const list = Cast(listDoc[key], listSpec(Doc));
         if (list) {
@@ -564,7 +565,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
             Doc.SetLayout(embedding, Doc.MakeEmbedding(layout));
         }
         embedding.createdFrom = doc;
-        embedding.proto_embeddingId = Doc.GetProto(doc).proto_embeddingId = DocListCast(Doc.GetProto(doc).proto_embeddings).length - 1;
+        embedding.proto_embeddingId = doc[DocData].proto_embeddingId = DocListCast(doc[DocData].proto_embeddings).length - 1;
         !Doc.GetT(embedding, 'title', 'string', true) && (embedding.title = ComputedField.MakeFunction(`renameEmbedding(this)`));
         embedding.author = Doc.CurrentUserEmail;
 
@@ -1084,8 +1085,8 @@ export namespace Doc {
     export function LayoutField(doc: Doc) {
         return doc[StrCast(doc.layout_fieldKey, 'layout')];
     }
-    export function LayoutFieldKey(doc: Doc): string {
-        return StrCast(Doc.Layout(doc).layout).split("'")[1]; // bcz: TODO check on this .  used to always reference 'layout', now it uses the layout speicfied by the current layout_fieldKey
+    export function LayoutFieldKey(doc: Doc, templateLayoutString?: string): string {
+        return StrCast(templateLayoutString || Doc.Layout(doc).layout).split("'")[1]; // bcz: TODO check on this .  used to always reference 'layout', now it uses the layout speicfied by the current layout_fieldKey
     }
     export function NativeAspect(doc: Doc, dataDoc?: Doc, useDim?: boolean) {
         return Doc.NativeWidth(doc, dataDoc, useDim) / (Doc.NativeHeight(doc, dataDoc, useDim) || 1);
@@ -1100,10 +1101,10 @@ export namespace Doc {
         return NumCast(doc._nativeHeight, nheight || dheight);
     }
     export function SetNativeWidth(doc: Doc, width: number | undefined, fieldKey?: string) {
-        doc[(fieldKey ?? Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc)) + '_nativeWidth'] = width;
+        doc[(fieldKey || Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc)) + '_nativeWidth'] = width;
     }
     export function SetNativeHeight(doc: Doc, height: number | undefined, fieldKey?: string) {
-        doc[(fieldKey ?? Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc)) + '_nativeHeight'] = height;
+        doc[(fieldKey || Doc.LayoutFieldKey(doc)) + '_nativeHeight'] = height;
     }
 
     const manager = new UserDocData();
@@ -1127,22 +1128,22 @@ export namespace Doc {
     }
 
     const isSearchMatchCache = computedFn(function IsSearchMatch(doc: Doc) {
-        return brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.has(doc) ? brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(doc) : brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.has(Doc.GetProto(doc)) ? brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(Doc.GetProto(doc)) : undefined;
+        return brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.has(doc) ? brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(doc) : brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.has(doc[DocData]) ? brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(doc[DocData]) : undefined;
     });
     export function IsSearchMatch(doc: Doc) {
         return isSearchMatchCache(doc);
     }
     export function IsSearchMatchUnmemoized(doc: Doc) {
-        return brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.has(doc) ? brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(doc) : brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.has(Doc.GetProto(doc)) ? brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(Doc.GetProto(doc)) : undefined;
+        return brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.has(doc) ? brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(doc) : brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.has(doc[DocData]) ? brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(doc[DocData]) : undefined;
     }
     export function SetSearchMatch(doc: Doc, results: { searchMatch: number }) {
-        if (doc && GetEffectiveAcl(doc) !== AclPrivate && GetEffectiveAcl(Doc.GetProto(doc)) !== AclPrivate) {
+        if (doc && GetEffectiveAcl(doc) !== AclPrivate && GetEffectiveAcl(doc[DocData]) !== AclPrivate) {
             brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.set(doc, results);
         }
         return doc;
     }
     export function SearchMatchNext(doc: Doc, backward: boolean) {
-        if (!doc || GetEffectiveAcl(doc) === AclPrivate || GetEffectiveAcl(Doc.GetProto(doc)) === AclPrivate) return doc;
+        if (!doc || GetEffectiveAcl(doc) === AclPrivate || GetEffectiveAcl(doc[DocData]) === AclPrivate) return doc;
         const result = brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.get(doc);
         const num = Math.abs(result?.searchMatch || 0) + 1;
         runInAction(() => result && brushManager.SearchMatchDoc.set(doc, { searchMatch: backward ? -num : num }));
@@ -1160,13 +1161,13 @@ export namespace Doc {
     }
     // returns 'how' a Doc has been brushed over - whether the document itself was brushed, it's prototype, or neither
     export function GetBrushStatus(doc: Doc) {
-        if (!doc || GetEffectiveAcl(doc) === AclPrivate || GetEffectiveAcl(Doc.GetProto(doc)) === AclPrivate || doc.opacity === 0) return DocBrushStatus.unbrushed;
-        return doc[Brushed] ? DocBrushStatus.selfBrushed : Doc.GetProto(doc)[Brushed] ? DocBrushStatus.protoBrushed : DocBrushStatus.unbrushed;
+        if (!doc || GetEffectiveAcl(doc) === AclPrivate || GetEffectiveAcl(doc[DocData]) === AclPrivate || doc.opacity === 0) return DocBrushStatus.unbrushed;
+        return doc[Brushed] ? DocBrushStatus.selfBrushed : doc[DocData][Brushed] ? DocBrushStatus.protoBrushed : DocBrushStatus.unbrushed;
     }
     export function BrushDoc(doc: Doc, unbrush = false) {
-        if (doc && GetEffectiveAcl(doc) !== AclPrivate && GetEffectiveAcl(Doc.GetProto(doc)) !== AclPrivate) {
+        if (doc && GetEffectiveAcl(doc) !== AclPrivate && GetEffectiveAcl(doc[DocData]) !== AclPrivate) {
             brushManager.brushDoc(doc, unbrush);
-            brushManager.brushDoc(Doc.GetProto(doc), unbrush);
+            brushManager.brushDoc(doc[DocData], unbrush);
         }
         return doc;
     }
@@ -1186,6 +1187,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
     }
     export function linkFollowUnhighlight() {
         clearTimeout(UnhighlightTimer);
+        UnhighlightTimer = 0;
         UnhighlightWatchers.forEach(watcher => watcher());
         UnhighlightWatchers.length = 0;
         highlightedDocs.forEach(doc => Doc.UnHighlightDoc(doc));
@@ -1205,8 +1207,8 @@ export namespace Doc {
 
     export var highlightedDocs = new ObservableSet<Doc>();
     export function IsHighlighted(doc: Doc) {
-        if (!doc || GetEffectiveAcl(doc) === AclPrivate || GetEffectiveAcl(Doc.GetProto(doc)) === AclPrivate || doc.opacity === 0) return false;
-        return doc[Highlight] || Doc.GetProto(doc)[Highlight];
+        if (!doc || GetEffectiveAcl(doc) === AclPrivate || GetEffectiveAcl(doc[DocData]) === AclPrivate || doc.opacity === 0) return false;
+        return doc[Highlight] || doc[DocData][Highlight];
     }
     export function HighlightDoc(doc: Doc, dataAndDisplayDocs = true, presentation_effect?: Doc) {
         runInAction(() => {
@@ -1214,8 +1216,8 @@ export namespace Doc {
             doc[Highlight] = true;
             doc[Animation] = presentation_effect;
             if (dataAndDisplayDocs) {
-                highlightedDocs.add(Doc.GetProto(doc));
-                Doc.GetProto(doc)[Highlight] = true;
+                highlightedDocs.add(doc[DocData]);
+                doc[DocData][Highlight] = true;
             }
         });
     }
@@ -1224,8 +1226,8 @@ export namespace Doc {
         runInAction(() => {
             (doc ? [doc] : Array.from(highlightedDocs)).forEach(doc => {
                 highlightedDocs.delete(doc);
-                highlightedDocs.delete(Doc.GetProto(doc));
-                doc[Highlight] = Doc.GetProto(doc)[Highlight] = false;
+                highlightedDocs.delete(doc[DocData]);
+                doc[Highlight] = doc[DocData][Highlight] = false;
                 doc[Animation] = undefined;
             });
         });
@@ -1346,7 +1348,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
         });
     }
 
-    export function styleFromLayoutString(doc: Doc, props: any, scale: number) {
+    export function styleFromLayoutString(doc: Doc, props: FieldViewProps, scale: number) {
         const style: { [key: string]: any } = {};
         const divKeys = ['width', 'height', 'fontSize', 'transform', 'left', 'backgroundColor', 'left', 'right', 'top', 'bottom', 'pointerEvents', 'position'];
         const replacer = (match: any, expr: string, offset: any, string: any) => {
@@ -1354,7 +1356,7 @@ export namespace Doc {
             return ScriptField.MakeFunction(expr, { self: Doc.name, this: Doc.name, scale: 'number' })?.script.run({ this: doc, self: doc, scale }).result?.toString() ?? '';
         };
         divKeys.map((prop: string) => {
-            const p = props[prop];
+            const p = (props as any)[prop];
             typeof p === 'string' && (style[prop] = p?.replace(/{([^.'][^}']+)}/g, replacer));
         });
         return style;
@@ -1593,7 +1595,7 @@ ScriptingGlobals.add(function idToDoc(id: string): any {
     return IdToDoc(id);
 });
 ScriptingGlobals.add(function renameEmbedding(doc: any) {
-    return StrCast(Doc.GetProto(doc).title).replace(/\([0-9]*\)/, '') + `(${doc.proto_embeddingId})`;
+    return StrCast(doc[DocData].title).replace(/\([0-9]*\)/, '') + `(${doc.proto_embeddingId})`;
 });
 ScriptingGlobals.add(function getProto(doc: any) {
     return Doc.GetProto(doc);
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