[Critical] Submitted Expense Incorrectly Added to Trip Report Instead of Workspace Chat

[m-natarajan]

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Reproducible in staging?: Needs Reproduction
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Issue reported by: @blimpich
Slack conversation (hyperlinked to channel name): expensify_bugs

Action Performed:

1. Submit an expense that should be associated with a workspace chat.
2. Observe that the expense is added to the open Trip Report instead of the intended workspace chat.

Expected Result:

The submitted expense should be correctly added to the intended workspace chat

Actual Result:

The submitted expense is incorrectly assigned to the Trip Report as its parent.
(Not able to reproduce this in a test account, but able to reproduce it consistently in main expensify production account)

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @trjExpensify (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.

[MelvinBot]

This has been labelled "Needs Reproduction". Follow the steps here: https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/16989

[blimpich]

I tried reproducing this on staging by creating a workspace and enabling travel and creating a trip as per this SO. I wasn't able to reproduce it. I messed around with instant submit settings and also couldn't reproduce it. Not sure how to make this reproduce.

[blimpich]

Marking this as Travel and "critical" since its a pretty bad bug IMO.

[trjExpensify]

@blimpich, perhaps @stitesExpensify or @rlinoz can help investigate with the data in your account?

[blimpich]

Discussing possible problems/solutions in this thread: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C05S5EV2JTX/p1736187638352179?thread_ts=1735935912.466739&cid=C05S5EV2JTX

[blimpich]

So I looked into this a little bit, takeaways so far:

• something is really messed up on my account, still don't know how it happened
• I can consistently reproduce the bug on my prod account, but haven't figured out how to reproduce it on a test account
• when I submit an expense to Expensify - US the frontend passes an iouReportID that is the report id of a report that has a parentID of the San Francisco Onshore 2025 trip report. That seems weird to me, I'm not sure if it should be doing that, and maybe that's the bug and its a frontend issue? But hard to tell since I can't reproduce on a test account.

Next step: right now I'm waiting to see if the expenses that are erroneously submitted to the trip report can be manually moved over / fixed by my approver @saracouto. Once those are approved or deleted I should be able to narrow down if this is a frontend or backend bug by inspecting the network request/response of the RequestMoney command.