[$250] Expense - Report field on confirmation page shows submitted report, but the expense is created in a new report

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Version Number: 9.1.47-1
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected]
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.4 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• Log in with Expensifail account.
• Delayed submissions is set to Manually.
• Add approvals is enabled.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to workspace chat.
3. Submit an expense.
4. Click Submit on the expense preview.
5. Click on the expense preview.
6. Click report header.
7. Click Title, rename and save it (to remember easily).
8. Go back to the main workspace chat.
9. Click + > Create expense > Manual.
10. Enter amount > Next.
11. On confirmation page, click Show more.
12. Note that Report field shows the expense report from Step 3.
13. Click Create expense.

Expected Result:

In Step 12, the Report field on the confirmation page should show a new report.

Actual Result:

In Step 12, the Report field on the confirmation page shows the submitted report from Step 3.
In Step 13, after submitting the expense, the expense is created in a new report, instead of the selected report as stated in Step 12.

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

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Issue Owner

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @bfitzexpensify (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.

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[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

💬 A slack conversation has been started in #expensify-open-source

[vincdargento]

@bfitzexpensify 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.

[marcaaron]

This PR seems related...

#62003 – Fix "Pay" & "Approve" buttons inside the report & when expenses are held

Though, looking at the changes and I'm not too sure. This could be an API issue as well.

[marcaaron]

@cristipaval can you confirm what the behavior is here. It seems like we're making changes in this PR. But not clear whether it would be worse to revert that at this point or accept this minor inconsistency (feels like the latter).

[marcaaron]

Oh hmm even after reverting that it still does the same behavior. So, not sure what we were even "fixing" with that PR @daledah can you chime in here?

[cristipaval]

yes I agree this can be demoted 👍

[cristipaval]

This is related to Instant Submit, and I think @garrettmknight knows best what the expected behavior is. I think that the expected result in the issue description is correct.

So when delay submission is enabled, it should work like this:

• When the user submits a new expense in the expense chat, it should be added to an existing open expense report linked to the chat, or to a new one if no linked report is OPEN
• The user can add expenses to Processing reports, by opening the expense report page and clicking on + button in the composer

[cristipaval]

@daledah could you please comment on this issue so I can assign you to it?

[daledah]

@cristipaval I'm here

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~021925137384397419631

[melvin-bot]

Current assignee @DylanDylann is eligible for the External assigner, not assigning anyone new.

[cristipaval]

Current assignee @DylanDylann is eligible for the External assigner, not assigning anyone new.

@DylanDylann is the C+ here and @daledah is the external contributor to fix the issue

[daledah]

I'll work on the PR soon.

[DylanDylann]

Please ping me if you need any help

[daledah]

@DylanDylann PR is ready.