[HOLD #43783][$250] Accounting - Submit button flickers in and out for non-admin submitter immediately after clicking Submit

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.8-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Issue found when executing PR #44170

Action Performed:

Pre-requisite:

• Have a collect workspace
• Enable delayed submission for the workspace
• Create either a QBO or Xero connection

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Sign in as the admin of the workspace
3. Create an expense in the workspace chat
4. Navigate to the combined expense report page and click on submit
5. Wait for a few seconds and observe the header button
6. Navigate back to the workspace chat page
7. Navigate back to the combined expense report page

Expected Result:

Right after a non-admin submitter clicks submit, the Submit button should disappear and no other button should show up.

Actual Result:

After a non-admin submits the expense, a Pay button shows up where the Submit button was before.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

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[melvin-bot]

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

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[francoisl]

Going to look at that PR #44170 to see if anything stands out.

In the meantime, /cc @kosmydel @hungvu193 if you have any idea

[francoisl]

The issue seems to be that in the rerender right after calling IOU.submitReport(), the money request's statusNum is still 0, and so shouldShowPayButton here is set to false (because isOpenExpenseReport here is true)

We correctly update the optimistic data of the IOU here in submitReport() though, so I can't tell why the statusNum is wrong in the memo 😕

[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

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

[francoisl]

In the meantime, here's a draft revert if we can't figure out a fix.

[kosmydel]

This problem must have been present before, but instead of displaying the "Export" button, no button was shown at all.

const shouldShowExportIntegrationButton = !shouldShowPayButton && !shouldShowSubmitButton && connectedIntegration && !!policy;

As we can see, the Pay button has higher priority, and if it is displayed, the export integration button must be hidden.

[trjExpensify]

Okay, I did two tests on production to corroborate that theory a bit, @kosmydel.

Workflows config:

• Delayed submission: Enabled
• Approvals: Disabled
• Payments: Enabled

Result: The pay button appears immediately after clicking Submit.

2024-07-18_10-41-39.mp4

Workflows config:

• Delayed submission: Enabled
• Approvals: Disabled
• Payments: Disabled

Result: There's a brief flash of the Submit button after clicking submit, and then no button.

2024-07-18_10-44-43.mp4

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @sakluger (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.

[mountiny]

We are going to demote this one as it is specific to the admin submitting on a policy with a specific setup so it is not very common case, additionally, it can be fixed by revisiting the report.

Looking for a proposal to fix this flicker of the incorrect button

[lakchote]

With this PR that fixes the Export option showing wrongfully for workspace members (it should only be for admins), there's still a glitch.

Now, here's what happens:

Pay button -> Submit button briefly showing -> Pay button

Screen.Recording.2024-07-18.at.13.26.37.mov

[mountiny]

Nice, thanks for testing again. This just supports the theory the optimistic data is somewhat incorrect probably for this specific submit and close setting

[sakluger]

Still on hold for #43783

[francoisl]

still on hold for the above ^

[francoisl]

Still on hold for the above

[sakluger]

Still on hold.

[sakluger]

Looks like the hold issue (#43783) has been closed because it's no longer reproduceable, and a new, similar issue is being worked on here: #43783 (comment). @francoisl what do you think we should do for this one? Should we get a retest?

[hoangzinh]

I prefer a retest.

[francoisl]

Yeah let's get a retest please, I can't repro anymore on my end.

Screen.Recording.2024-11-01.at.2.42.48.PM.mov

[sakluger]

Let's close since Francois can't reproduce.