[HOLD for payment 2024-06-06] [$250] Wrong "Next step" displayed for the approver

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Version Number: 1.4.70-1
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Issue reported by: @JmillsExpensify
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1714518611299619

Action Performed:

Prerequisite: Have a collect workspace with admin, approver, and employee.

1. Employee submits report to approver
2. Approver approves the report
3. Observe the next step header for approver

Expected Result:

"Waiting for you to pay these expenses" should not be displayed for the approver

Actual Result:

"Waiting for you to pay these expenses" is displayed for approver who is not configured to pay the report

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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[cretadn22]

Proposal

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

Payer is wrong in the header

What is the root cause of that problem?

When an employee creates a money request, the backend returns a request report where the managerID is the ID of the approver

App/src/libs/NextStepUtils.ts

Lines 302 to 309 in 2f5173c

	if (!isOwner) {
	optimisticNextStep.message = [
	{
	text: 'Waiting for ',
	},
	{
	text: managerDisplayName,
	type: 'strong',

Given that managerDisplayName is "you"

If I understand correctly:

• ownerID corresponds to the ID of the request creator
• managerID corresponds to the ID of the workspace admin

If this understanding is accurate, then the current logic here is wrong

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

We need to extract the approverID from the policy using approverID = policy.submitsTo. Then

• If the current user is the approver, we'll show "you"
• If the current user isn't the approver, we'll display the name of the approver

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

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@dukenv0307 just one proposal to review so far

[dominictb]

Proposal

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

"Waiting for you to pay these expenses" is displayed for approver who is not configured to pay the report

What is the root cause of that problem?

The logic we have here is wrong, in this case there's no further action required from the approver so the message shown is incorrect

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

Since there's no further action required from the approver in this case, we can update this to the No further action required! next step like in here, this is also consistent with what the back-end returns.

Or we can use the no action required message for the whole block here (except the case where the current user is the payer of the request too)

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

Early return No further action required! next step in here if the current user cannot pay the request (eg. Is not one of the workspace admins, the full condition for checking if user can pay the request is here and !ReportUtils.isInvoiceReport here)

[dukenv0307]

starting review now

[dukenv0307]

I like @dominictb's alternative solution

🎀👀🎀 C+ reviewed

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@mountiny fancy giving this proposal a review?

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[mountiny]

Happy to take this over from Flo as I have worked on the next steps before.

@dominictb Your alternative solution looks better. When the isOwner condition was implemented, we still did not have the policy reimburser data in the App or policy settings. Now, we should use the method you have mentioned in the alternative solutions or the isPayer logic, needs to be checked thoroughly. This should ensure the payer will get this message correctly.

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The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 1.4.77-11 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• fix: update next step for approver #42018

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2024-06-06. 🎊

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