[HOLD for payment 2023-08-03] [$1000] You can add newlines in task titles

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Action Performed:

1. Click + icon and select assign a task
2. Enter title and assign it to a user
3. Click Confirm Task

Expected Result:

User should not be able to add newlines in task title

Actual Result:

User is able to add new lines

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: Dev 1.3.41-2
Reproducible in staging?: no
Reproducible in production?: no
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @gadhiyamanan
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1689431653449869

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Triggered auto assignment to @sonialiap (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[thienlnam]

We believe this is a regression of a recent PR since it's only a problem on dev but it's impacting all multi-line inputs for tasks at least

[dhairyasenjaliya]

@thienlnam I think we should remove the multi-line for the title field on the task I believe previously it was not supported but after re-design, we have added is it intentional?

[thienlnam]

Yeah I agree, I don't think think task titles should be multi-line. Let's go back to disabling it in the front-end

[dhairyasenjaliya]

Proposal

(if it goes to external)

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

• DEV: Web - Multiline title works on the Assign task page but not on while edit from Confirm task page
• and we have a couple more issues due to that

What is the root cause of that problem?

• The root cause is we have added autoGrowHeight to Task related pages which are not needed 


What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

• As the title field is not multiline We just need to remove autoGrowHeight , textAlignVertical, and also containerStyles on all the task-related pages like NewTaskDetailsPage.js & TaskTitlePage.js

• (Optionally) Also we need to remove focusAndUpdateMultilineInputRange and add normal inputRef.current.focus() on TaskTitlePage.js since this was added for multi-line only

• (Optionally) We can reduce numberOfLines to display title as well currently its set to show 3 lines on Task view

• Also we are not able to save multi-line tasks if we add a new line on the task so probably not supported on the backend as well

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

• N/A

[chiragxarora]

We believe this is a regression of a recent PR since it's only a problem on dev but it's impacting all multi-line inputs for tasks at least

yes this is a regression of recent task redesign by @jasperhuangg

[Nikhil-Vats]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Multiline title works on Assign task page but not when editing from Confirm task page.

What is the root cause of that problem?

In this PR we added the props to allow multiline input in some pages but left some other pages.

App/src/pages/tasks/NewTaskDetailsPage.js

Lines 102 to 104 in 0fcfe75

	autoGrowHeight
	textAlignVertical="top"
	containerStyles={[styles.autoGrowHeightMultilineInput]}

App/src/pages/tasks/TaskTitlePage.js

Lines 83 to 85 in 0fcfe75

	autoGrowHeight
	textAlignVertical="top"
	containerStyles={[styles.autoGrowHeightMultilineInput]}

There is also an inconsistency here where if title and description are long then we show description in two lines but title in 1 -

App/src/pages/tasks/NewTaskPage.js

Lines 158 to 171 in 0fcfe75

	<MenuItemWithTopDescription
	description={props.translate('task.title')}
	title={props.task.title || ''}
	onPress={() => Navigation.navigate(ROUTES.NEW_TASK_TITLE)}
	shouldShowRightIcon
	/>
	<MenuItemWithTopDescription
	description={props.translate('task.description')}
	title={props.task.description || ''}
	onPress={() => Navigation.navigate(ROUTES.NEW_TASK_DESCRIPTION)}
	shouldShowRightIcon
	numberOfLinesTitle={2}
	titleStyle={styles.flex1}
	/>

See screenshot -

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

1. We need to remove the autoGrowHeight, textAlignVertical and containerStyles prop from NewTaskDetailsPage and TaskTitlePage.

2. To fix the other inconsistency where title is shown in 1 line but description in 2, we need to add following props for MenuItemWithTopDescription in NewTaskPage that shows title after line 162 -

   numberOfLinesTitle={2}
   titleStyle={styles.flex1}

3. We should change onEntryTransitionEnd={() => focusAndUpdateMultilineInputRange(inputRef.current)} to onEntryTransitionEnd={() => inputRef.current && inputRef.current.focus()} in TaskTitlePage as the input is not multiline anymore.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

NA