Splash Page should show some relevant information for users

[Zeitsperre]

I've gotten two questions by email in the past year that concern how one can change their password on PAVICS. The issue is that this can be missed very easily at the login page (opening a new issue for that momentarily) and that once one is connected, there is very little information provided to the user with regard to PAVICS itself.

It would be nice to have a splash page (or some additional information on a new page) that has a few hints and notices. One way of performing this is to modify the launcher.tsx: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69357256/7322852

I would like to see any of the following:

• Getting Started with JupyterLab (not necessarily PAVICS/Ouranos-specific): <URL>
• PAVICS Datasets page: <URL to Datasets tab on PAVICS>
• Change your password: <URL to Magpie>

For deployment’s sake, perhaps there could be a text-box in the docker-compose.yml that accepts some Markdown?

[mishaschwartz]

I like the idea that we can customize the messaging to the users.
Would it be possible to do this by adding additional templates here: https://github.com/bird-house/birdhouse-deploy/tree/master/birdhouse/components/jupyterhub/custom_templates or by making the existing templates more customizable?

Also, which page is the "splash page" in this context? The page the user sees after logging in but before launching a jupyterlab server or the page they see after launching a server?

Just to keep things organized... This issue is highly related to bird-house/birdhouse-deploy#334

[Zeitsperre]

Also, which page is the "splash page" in this context? The page the user sees after logging in but before launching a jupyterlab server or the page they see after launching a server?

Sorry for the confusion, I'm referring to the JupyterLab instance main page, i.e. this one:

If this issue is better suited to Birdhouse-deploy, feel free to transfer this issue there!

[tlvu]

related to bird-house/birdhouse-deploy#416 ?