How to associate collection metadata fields with specific collection theme

[alex buckley]

Kia ora/Hello everyone,

My name is Alex Buckley. I am a developer based in New Zealand and am starting on my journey in DSpace development. I am writing to this mailing list to please seek your feedback and advice.

Desired functionality

My team and I would like to add new input fields to the collection forms in the DSpace Admin. These input fields would be a user-friendly way for librarians to be able to add content to a collection theme. For example:

- Header text

- Intro text

- Footer content

We would then save this inputted data in new metadata fields.

Development question

My question is, how would you recommend we associate data stored in these new metadata fields with specific themes?

i.e. if someone adds content into the header text metadata field for the Fisheries collection. How can we ensure that that header text is only displayed by the Fisheries theme (which is linked to the Fisheries collection in the DSpace Angular config.*.yml file)?

This enhancement is something that we would want to upstream in a pull request to DSpace, so others can also benefit from it.

Thanks so much in advance for your assistance.

Kind regards,

Alex