[$1000] Web- Chat - Markdown styles (Bold, Italic) are not retained if copy-paste message from draft

[kbecciv]

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Action Performed:

1. Go to https://staging.new.expensify.com/ and login
2. Open any chat
3. Copy message from Slack compose box with Bold and Italic markdown
4. Past it to NewDot compose box

Expected Result:

Markdown styles (Bold, Italic) should be the same after copy-paste message from Slack

Actual Result:

Markdown styles (Bold, Italic) are not the same if copy-paste message from draft. However they are kept the same when copy a sent message.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• Web

Version Number: 1.2.28.1

Reproducible in staging?: Yes

Reproducible in production?: Yes

Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/93399543/202209938-e61b178b-3222-47e4-8e54-e808b94b8229.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Slack conversation:

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Upwork Automation - Do Not Edit

• Upwork Job URL: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01d2b138ae1bc9b751
• Upwork Job ID: 1594824268879978496

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @tjferriss (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[melvin-bot[bot]]

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

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01d2b138ae1bc9b751

[melvin-bot[bot]]

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

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @jasperhuangg (External), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

[eh2077]

It's because we can't copy rich text(html) from draft of Slack. You can verify it by performing action

1. Open Slack in a browser and copy draft with markdown styles from Slack
2. Open Slack in another browser and paste it to a message editor of Slack

While I'm still curious about how Slack achieves it in the same browser.

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@tjferriss, @jasperhuangg, @thesahindia Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?

[thesahindia]

Thanks @eh2077, I agree this isn't a bug. I am seeing the same behaviour on https://stackedit.io/app#

[s77rt]

Should this be closed?

[thesahindia]

@jasperhuangg @tjferriss, let's close this.