Make the include yaml clickable in pipeline editor

Closing in favor of &7064

Release notes

Problem to solve

Users dont have a quick way to navigate to the include file from their pipeline configuration

Intended users

User experience goal

As a user i would like to navigate to the include yaml file to view and possible edit the file

Proposal

Make the include file clickable within the pipeline editor so whenever a user click on an include YAML, they will be redirected to view the file itself

A possible enhancement would be to open the file in the pipeline editor itself, but we would probably be able to do that only for files which exist in the user's repos, we should revisit this once we will refine this feature.

Further details

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Is there an issue for being able to follow a link to an included template when viewing a ci-yaml file from within GitLab?


kencjohnston  12 hours ago
So for example when I see this template included and want to follow a link to see what the template is doing - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-examples/nodejs-functions/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml#L2
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.gitlab-ci.yml · master · GitLab-examples / nodejs-functions
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f_caplette  12 hours ago
I don't think that we have one for this, but we should! cc @Dov @Nadia Sotnikova

f_caplette  12 hours ago

We will have a section where you can open files and edit them all in one place though, so it might alleviate that (edited) 
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kencjohnston  12 hours ago
Thanks @f_caplette - from a technical perspective GitLab “knowns” the location of each of these includes right? We’d need to know to actually include it when generating a pipeline.

f_caplette  12 hours ago
It might be possible when loading our page to get that data back from the API and somehow make clicking on these templates "open" the file in our home section

f_caplette  12 hours ago
That way it could feel like you are navigating your CI configs and it would be more intuitive than opening them manually
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