[Due for payment 2025-06-02] [Due for payment 2025-05-30] [$250] Reports - Expenses preview shown briefly when opening expenses report from header subtitle

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Version Number: 9.1.48-0
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: Motorola MotoG60 - Android 12 - Chrome / Windows 10 - Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

1. Open the Expenify app.
2. Open any workspace chat.
3. Submit two different expenses.
4. Navigate to "Reports"
5. Open any of those expenses.
6. Tap on subtitle on header to open expenses report.
7. Note that expenses preview can be seen briefly, before expenses report is displayed.

Expected Result:

When tapping on the header subtitle, the user should be automatically navigated to expenses report.

Actual Result:

When tapping on the header subtitle of an expense report, the user lands briefly on a page with the preview of the expenses of the same report, before being redirected to the report where the expenses are shown in list mode.

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

Bug6838611_1747858434762.Brief.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @jliexpensify

[melvin-bot]

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

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

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[nlemma]

@jliexpensify 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.

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~021925481058335378299

[melvin-bot]

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

[nkdengineer]

@mountiny Is this external for contributor?

[mountiny]

@nkdengineer yes

[DylanDylann]

@mountiny Merging #62363 will fix this problem

see this RCA: #62363 (comment)

[nkdengineer]

Proposal

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

When tapping on the header subtitle of an expense report, the user lands briefly on a page with the preview of the expenses of the same report, before being redirected to the report where the expenses are shown in list mode.

What is the root cause of that problem?

Whenever OpenReport API is called, isLoadingInitialReportActions is true which causes isEmptyTransactionReport is false and then the old view is displayed briefly

App/src/components/MoneyRequestReportView/MoneyRequestReportView.tsx

Lines 126 to 129 in 6871ba9

	const isEmptyTransactionReport = transactions && transactionThreadReportID === undefined && !isLoadingInitialReportActions;
	const shouldDisplayMoneyRequestActionsList = !!isEmptyTransactionReport && shouldDisplayReportTableView(report, transactions);
	const reportHeaderView = useMemo(

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

We should add the check reportActions length here to avoid the flicker if we've already fetched it. As what I see in #62363, we always display the skeleton that can also cause the loading is displayed every time we visit this report that triggers OpenReport API.

const isEmptyTransactionReport = transactions && transactionThreadReportID === undefined && (!isLoadingInitialReportActions || reportActions.length > 0);

App/src/components/MoneyRequestReportView/MoneyRequestReportView.tsx

Lines 126 to 129 in 6871ba9

	const isEmptyTransactionReport = transactions && transactionThreadReportID === undefined && !isLoadingInitialReportActions;
	const shouldDisplayMoneyRequestActionsList = !!isEmptyTransactionReport && shouldDisplayReportTableView(report, transactions);
	const reportHeaderView = useMemo(

What specific scenarios should we cover in automated tests to prevent reintroducing this issue in the future?

None

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

NA

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[DylanDylann]

@nkdengineer Your proposal will introduce again the original flicker bug

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[arosiclair]

We CP'd but this still needs QA. Waiting on Applause for that

[izarutskaya]

Issue not reproducible on build build 9.1.49-6
Web/mWeb/Android

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[jliexpensify]

@arosiclair any payments needed here, or is this being handled as part of a larger project?

[mountiny]

No payments here as the original PR authors handled it, we can close

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Reviewing label has been removed, please complete the "BugZero Checklist".

[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.1.50-0 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• [CP Staging] Fix blinking old type of report #62562

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2025-05-30. 🎊

For reference, here are some details about the assignees on this issue:

• @martasudol does not require payment (Contractor)
• @DylanDylann requires payment through NewDot Manual Requests

[melvin-bot]

@DylanDylann @jliexpensify @DylanDylann The PR fixing this issue has been merged! The following checklist (instructions) will need to be completed before the issue can be closed. Please copy/paste the BugZero Checklist from here into a new comment on this GH and complete it. If you have the K2 extension, you can simply click: [this button]

[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.1.51-6 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• [CP Staging] Fix blinking old type of report #62562

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2025-06-02. 🎊

For reference, here are some details about the assignees on this issue:

• @martasudol does not require payment (Contractor)
• @DylanDylann requires payment through NewDot Manual Requests

[melvin-bot]

@DylanDylann @jliexpensify @DylanDylann The PR fixing this issue has been merged! The following checklist (instructions) will need to be completed before the issue can be closed. Please copy/paste the BugZero Checklist from here into a new comment on this GH and complete it. If you have the K2 extension, you can simply click: [this button]