[$250] Reports - On removing expense, "to" field briefly appears and disappears in reports page.

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Version Number: V9.1.49-4
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Unable to check, new feature
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): Applausetester [email protected]
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Redminote 10s android 13 phone
App Component: User Settings

Action Performed:

1. Go to https://staging.new.expensify.com/home
2. Login with new expensifail account
3. Tap fab - create a new workspace
4. Create a manual expense entering merchant
5. Create another workspace
6. Create a manual expense entering merchant
7. Go to profile and set a display name
8. Go to reports
9. Select all expenses and "move expense" to first report
10. Again select all expenses and "move expense" to second report

Expected Result:

On re-moving expense, "to" field must not briefly appear and disappear in reports page.

Actual Result:

On re-moving expense, "to" field briefly appears and disappears in reports page.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

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[JoshIri360]

Proposal

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

When re-moving an expense between reports, the "to" field (recipient information) briefly appears and then disappears on the reports page, creating a flickering effect.

What is the root cause of that problem?

The root cause was that the logic for displaying the recipient information in the ExpenseItemHeaderNarrow component did not correctly account for scenarios where the "from" and "to" participants of an expense movement are the same. The UI would momentarily try to display recipient details even when the expense was essentially being moved by the same user, causing the brief appearance and disappearance of the "to" field.

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

To solve this, we introduced a new utility function shouldShowRecipientForExpenseMovement in IOUUtils.ts. This function checks if the accountID of the participantFrom and participantTo are different.

In ExpenseItemHeaderNarrow.tsx, we now use this function in conjunction with isCorrectSearchUserName to determine shouldDisplayArrowIcon. This flag now correctly controls whether the recipient information (the "to" field) and the connecting arrow icon are displayed. Specifically, the "to" field and arrow are only shown if the "from" and "to" participants are different individuals.

Additionally, the shouldShowToRecipient prop for UserInfoCellsWithArrow is now directly tied to the shouldDisplayArrowIcon state, ensuring consistency.

This separates business logic from presentation and ensures consistent behavior across the application.

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

N/A

What alternative solutions did you explore?

N/A

[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @ishpaul777 (External)

[pecanoro]

Demoting since it's a minor visual glitch

[bernhardoj]

Proposal

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

To field is shown briefly when moving expense.

What is the root cause of that problem?

I can't perform the exact test step as QA because move report is not allowed between workspaces. I can repro it by having 2 report in the same workspace chat, with 1 report is empty. When we create a new money request, shouldShowBlankTo is true because the report state is still OPEN, so "To" field will be empty..

App/src/libs/SearchUIUtils.ts

Lines 350 to 353 in 526a0e4

	const shouldShowBlankTo = isOpenExpenseReport(report);
	const policy = data[`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.POLICY}${report?.policyID}`];
	const from = data.personalDetailsList?.[transactionItem.accountID];
	const to = transactionItem.managerID && !shouldShowBlankTo ? data.personalDetailsList?.[transactionItem.managerID] : emptyPersonalDetails;

But after moving the expense to the empty report, shouldShowBlankTo becomes false. It's because the report is undefined. The empty report isn't included on the search result data. Only after the BE response, we get the data.

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

We can return true for shouldShowBlankTo if report is undefined.

const shouldShowBlankTo = !report || isOpenExpenseReport(report);

(if report is undefined, then we can't know if we should show "To" or not, so it's better to not show it)

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

N/A

[pecanoro]

@ishpaul777 Did you have a moment to review the proposals?

[ishpaul777]

Sure @pecanoro i'll review in 1 hour

[ishpaul777]

i could not reproduce the issue with steps from QA but from steps in @bernhardoj, when moving expense the in same workspace chat to new empty report, "->" briefly appears, @bernhardoj proposal fixes that and looks good to me

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