Split - Attendee field is empty when the expense is created from split expense

[vincdargento]

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Issue was found while executing QA for PR #61484

Version Number: 9.1.45-14
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Unable to check
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #61484
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected]
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.3 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to workspace chat.
3. Split a manual expense.
4. Go to transaction thread.

Expected Result:

Attendee field will select the current user (yourself) by default.

Actual Result:

Attendee field is empty when the expense is created from split expense.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

bug.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @NicMendonca (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @arosiclair (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

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[vincdargento]

@NicMendonca FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[arosiclair]

Demoting since this is a new feature not a regression. cc @allroundexperts @mananjadhav @francoisl @Julesssss

[francoisl]

I don't even know if it's an issue at all, the field can technically be empty. No attendee means you're the attendee. This is consistent with OldDot.