[$250] mWeb - Expense - Second WS member can´t access report and receipt of distance split expenses

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.50-0 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: N/A If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/5092497&group_by=cases:section_id&group_order=asc&group_id=229067 Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Open the staging.new.expensify.com website
2. Open a workspace chat with at least two members
3. Tap on the "+" button
4. Tap on "Split Expense" and go to distance option
5. Add start and stop waypoints
6. Submit the expense
7. Verify the user can open the expense report and receipt
8. Log out from the account
9. Log in with the account of the second workspace member
10. Open the workspace chat
11. Verify the second member can access the expense report and receipt

Expected Result:

Second expense participant, should be able to open the expense report and the receipt from the workspace chat

Actual Result:

When the second participant, opens the distance expense receipt, a "403 Forbidden" message is displayed, and when the report is opened, a "Hmmm, it´s not here" screen is displayed. Second Participant is not able to access the distance split expense information

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

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

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @deetergp

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @kadiealexander (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.

[lanitochka17]

@kadiealexander 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

[lanitochka17]

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

[melvin-bot[bot]]

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[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @ikevin127 (External)

[VickyStash]

Hi, I'm Viktoryia from Callstack - expert contributor group - and I would like to work on this issue.

[VickyStash]

I was able to reproduce the issue, but it looks like an API problem. The app just displays what API returns.

So for the User A - the owner of the workspace and the creator of the split expense - the expense report is returned for OpenApp / OpenReport API command.

For User B - the member of the workspace - the expense report is not returned by the API inside OpenReport data. OpenReport call returns Report not found error.

❗NOTE : the issue is fixed if I turn User B into Admin of the workspace.

API calls	User A (the one who created the split expense)	User B (second member of the workspace)
OpenApp
OpenReport
Receipt display

[VickyStash]

@ikevin127 What do you think about this?

[ikevin127]

@VickyStash Thanks for the detailed explanation! Your analysis indicates that this is BE related indeed, so I'm going to auto-assign a CME to look into it and confirm whether this should be Internal.

cc @deetergp

🎀👀🎀 C+ reviewed

[melvin-bot[bot]]

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

[kadiealexander]

Reassigning to someone else to babysit this while I'm OOO for the next two weeks.

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @joekaufmanexpensify (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.

[deetergp]

I am not able to recreate this. I've tried splitting distance expenses both in and out of workspace chats and in each case, I am able to see both the expenses and the receipts as either user.

[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? 💸

[joekaufmanexpensify]

I can try and triage today too.

[joekaufmanexpensify]

@deetergp were you specifically on Android mobile web when you tried? I tried there just now and was able to reproduce with the steps in OP.

[deetergp]

Oh, is it specific to Android mobile web? I am pretty sure I tried it in macOS web. I'm heading OOO for the next week—back on the 5th—if we need to keep the press going on this, you may want to find another internal engineer.

[joekaufmanexpensify]

I tested on android mobile web because that was in OP of the issue. This is a pretty niche case, so I don't think it's really a rush to fix it, so I think fine to leave it a week. We could also just close, but it does feel like this could come up eventually, so maybe best to fix if it's an easy PR.

[joekaufmanexpensify]

I'll just set to weekly for now, and we can pick this back up next week

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@deetergp @joekaufmanexpensify @ikevin127 @kadiealexander this issue was created 2 weeks ago. Are we close to a solution? Let's make sure we're treating this as a top priority. Don't hesitate to create a thread in #expensify-open-source to align faster in real time. Thanks!

[joekaufmanexpensify]

We'll pick this back up this week once Scott's back