Feature Request/Idea: Custom home pages for subcollections

[sergejzr]

Dear Dataverse developers.
Dataverse has a possibility to define a custom_homepage as branding for the whole Dataverse installation. This is also what we did for our bonndata. It shows features like overall statistics, recent and popular datasets, etc.
Overview of the Feature Request
Now, the admins of our subcollections would like to obtain similar landing pages for their collections. To do this, at the moment, we would need to generate a header and a footer for these collections as well.
More naturally would be to be able to add a custom branding for a subcollection in the similar way as the main landing page is added.

What kind of user is the feature intended for?
(Example users roles: API User, Curator, Depositor, Guest, Superuser, Sysadmin)
Superusers of the Subdataverse

What inspired the request?
User requests

What existing behavior do you want changed?
Same as with http://localhost:8080/api/admin/settings/:HomePageCustomizationFile
but for a specified collection

Any open or closed issues related to this feature request?
I may have overlooked something, but I did a research and could not find similar requests

[yjyale]

This feature will be very useful. Looking forward to having this feature available soon!

[pdurbin]

I noticed the discussion at https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/8bh76NnF_m8/m/xwP2dbVGAAAJ

Yes, this would be a nice feature but we are in the process of rewriting the UI of Dataverse in React and are trying to touch the old frontend code (in this repo) as little a possible. Please feel free to open an issue at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend

[yjyale]

That'll be great! Will the new UI replace the old UI for Dataverse community? Will the new UI allow customized branding for the differences among main header and sub-collections' headers?

[pdurbin]

@yjyale yes, the new UI will someday replace the old UI. It will be a long process but you can watch these videos to see the progress: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend#demo-videos

The new UI will not allow customized branding for the differences among main header and sub-collections' headers. However, you are welcome to create an issue in that repo.

Basically, the strategy with developing the new UI is to replicate what is in the old UI. So because the feature you want isn't in the old UI, it will not be implemented in the new UI unless there's an issue that is prioritized.

I hope this helps!