Discover an ability to configure Dashboard easier

Is your task related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, the Dashboard is customizable with product.json file which capabilities will be extended soon. But the current approach of overriding product.json is not so easy, it still requires repackaging Dashboard and then new Che with it. For example, Code Ready Workspace assembly https://github.com/redhat-developer/codeready-workspaces/tree/master/assembly/codeready-workspaces-assembly-dashboard-war/src/main/webapp/assets/branding. Another case of configured Dashboard is che.openshift.io which does not change the branding but tune some default behavior (disable organization tab, disables workspace sharing, an ephemeral mode is enabled by default) https://github.com/redhat-developer/rh-che/tree/master/assembly/fabric8-ide-dashboard-war

This issue is about discovering an ability to configure Dashboard easier. I can imagine that Dashboard could continue to have product.json but it would be a default configuration that administrators would be able to patch on Deployment level with ConfigMap, Volumes, etc.

 title: My Branded Che
 menus.organization.enabled: false
 footer.faq: ""

But it’s needed to be analyzed more and discussed with wider the audience.

[benoitf]

I still think it needs to be served through branding service I mean, dashboard is running on client side so it needs to have configuration served by the server to be used with configuration (config, map, etc) https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/14839#issuecomment-540531164

[sleshchenko]

it’s moved to the enhancement https://github.com/eclipse/che/pull/20666