Workspace - No Admin room is created after creating a workspace

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: 9.0.17-0 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): bezawitgebremichael+101102@gmail.com Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856 Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Create a workspace
3. Navigate to inbox and observe that no admin room is created
4. Go back to workspace settings page and add a member
5. Go to inbox
6. Observe admin room is created

Expected Result:

Admin room should be created when creating a workspace

Actual Result:

Admin room doesn't get created after creating a workspace and it only gets visible on LHN when a member is added in the workspace

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• [ ] Android: Native
• [ ] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [ ] iOS: Native
• [ ] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [x] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bb8f4c82-b1d2-4729-a7a3-33e8bd3975ff

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[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @adelekennedy (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.

[izarutskaya]

We think this issue might be related to the #collect project.

[codewaseem]

Hi @izarutskaya ,

I think it's not a bug. This is new behavior based on the requirements from #36236 merged recently by this PR: #45048.

[adelekennedy]

Agree - I don't think this is a bug