[Story] Certain links to open in a new tab

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Epic

Epic issue includes overview, complete list of user stories, user testing task ideation, and final design mock-ups.

User story

• As a filer, I want certain links to open in a new tab, so that I do not lose any data or progress when interacting with forms, tools, or processes on the page.

Acceptance criteria

• Given that a user is logged in to our platform and the destination page does not require them to be logged in to our platform to view the content, then the link should open in a separate tab.
• Given that a user is logged in to our platform and the destination page does require them to be logged in to our platform to view the content, then the link should open in the same tab.
• Given that a user is not logged in to our platform, then the link should open in the same tab.

In this criteria "logged in to our platform" means that they are logged in to Keycloak, Login.gov, and they have been authenticated. Complete your user profile and the complete your user profile confirmation pages do not meet this criteria since the user has not been authenticated.

Tasks

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UX

• https://github.com/orgs/cfpb/projects/21/views/6?pane=issue&itemId=84849660&issue=cfpb%7Csbl-ux%7C18

Front end

Ticket: Update when links open in new tab

• Integrate logic into the SBL Link component that determines when to open a link in a new tab based on the Acceptance criteria set in [Story] Certain links to open in a new tab #295
• Go through code and remove any overrides that force links to open in new tabs (Link > isExternalLink)
• Add E2E tests for each link to verify it opens as expected (Same tab vs New tab)
  • Create clickNewTabWithRetry() - New utility to retry clicking of links that open in new tab until the target page actually loads

Back end

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