[$250] Dupe detection - Merchant field shows (none) instead of blank when (none) is selected

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: v9.0.17-1 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+kh050806@applause.expensifail.com Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to DM.
3. Submit an expense with no merchant and description.
4. Submit another expense with the same amount, and with merchant and description.
5. Go to the transaction thread of the second expense (Step 4).
6. Click Review duplicates.
7. Click Keep this one (any).
8. During the review, select (none) for Merchant and None for Description.
9. Proceed to confirmation page.

Expected Result:

Merchant field should be empty since none is selected.

Actual Result:

Merchant field shows (none) when (none) is selected, while Description field is empty when None is selected.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

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

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @eVoloshchak

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @dylanexpensify (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.

[IuliiaHerets]

We think that this bug might be related to #wave-collect - Release 1

[IuliiaHerets]

@dylanexpensify FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[Krishna2323]

Edited by proposal-police: This proposal was edited at 2023-10-11T18:10:00Z.

Proposal

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

Dupe detection - Merchant field shows (none) instead of blank when (none) is selected

What is the root cause of that problem?

In ReviewMerchant we are not checking if the merchant is merchant === CONST.TRANSACTION.PARTIAL_TRANSACTION_MERCHANT to consider it as empty. https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/6a6c242e79bb930b58146cb3e31f74d4e1fa0840/src/pages/TransactionDuplicate/ReviewMerchant.tsx#L25-L26

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

Update the condition to:

    const options = useMemo(
        () =>
            compareResult.change.merchant?.map((merchant) =>
                !merchant || merchant === CONST.TRANSACTION.PARTIAL_TRANSACTION_MERCHANT
                    ? {text: translate('violations.none'), value: ''}
                    : {
                          text: merchant,
                          value: merchant,
                      },
            ),
        [compareResult.change.merchant, translate],
    );

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

Update the title prop in MoneyRequestView. We can create a variable for the updatedTransaction?.modifiedMerchant, just like we have merchantTitle. https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/6a6c242e79bb930b58146cb3e31f74d4e1fa0840/src/components/ReportActionItem/MoneyRequestView.tsx#L541 To:

title={(updatedTransaction?.modifiedMerchant === CONST.TRANSACTION.PARTIAL_TRANSACTION_MERCHANT ? '' : updatedTransaction?.modifiedMerchant) ?? merchantTitle}

This is the same way we show empty merchant for a transaction when merchant is (none) so I think this is the more correct way fix this issue. https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/6a6c242e79bb930b58146cb3e31f74d4e1fa0840/src/components/ReportActionItem/MoneyRequestView.tsx#L240

[dylanexpensify]

I believe we need to have something in for merchant, otherwise an error is thrown, so this isn't a bug

[Krishna2323]

Merchant field shows (none) when (none) is selected, while Description field is empty when None is selected.

@dylanexpensify, merchant is only required in workspace chats, direct request to any user can be made without merchant so this is a valid bug. In the video below you can see that the merchant field is empty after creating the request, '(none)' is not shown.

@parasharrajat, I believe you have worked on this feature, can you please confirm this? 🙏🏻

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d7dd90f8-79b9-48e8-825f-ee465ac9aece

[dylanexpensify]

Ah, good catch @Krishna2323

[parasharrajat]

Looks like a valid bug to me as well.

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[dylanexpensify]

Forgot to hit external.

[melvin-bot[bot]]

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

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@eVoloshchak, @dylanexpensify Eep! 4 days overdue now. Issues have feelings too...

[Krishna2323]

@eVoloshchak, friendly bump for review.

[melvin-bot[bot]]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[eVoloshchak]

@Krishna2323's proposal LGTM, both solutions are equivalent, I think we should proceed with the main one (update condition in ReviewMerchant.tsx)

🎀👀🎀 C+ reviewed!

[melvin-bot[bot]]

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

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@Beamanator @eVoloshchak @dylanexpensify this issue was created 2 weeks ago. Are we close to approving a proposal? If not, what's blocking us from getting this issue assigned? Don't hesitate to create a thread in #expensify-open-source to align faster in real time. Thanks!

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[Krishna2323]

@eVoloshchak PR ready for review ^

[Krishna2323]

@eVoloshchak, friendly bump for the review :)

[dylanexpensify]

pending deploy and regression

[melvin-bot[bot]]

This issue has not been updated in over 15 days. @Beamanator, @eVoloshchak, @dylanexpensify, @Krishna2323 eroding to Monthly issue.

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