From 3b0d3bb6a7a578cb3bb3c8691120e7d738f6a613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ciregenz <ciregenz@berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 23:35:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [eric] dashboard: plain click selects the card so
 spawn-beside-selection fires without shift/marquee

---
 .../pages/Dashboard/hooks/state/useDashboardSelection.ts   | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/state/useDashboardSelection.ts b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/state/useDashboardSelection.ts
index 64b38841..6b117039 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/state/useDashboardSelection.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/state/useDashboardSelection.ts
@@ -96,10 +96,11 @@ export function useDashboardSelection(
           }
           return next;
         }
-        if (prev.has(id)) {
-          return new Map();
+        // Plain click selects the clicked card (collapsing any multi-select to it) so spawn-beside-selection actually fires; deselect = empty-canvas click or Esc.
+        if (prev.size === 1 && prev.has(id)) {
+          return prev;
         }
-        return prev;
+        return new Map([[id, type]]);
       });
     },
     [],