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[rushatgabhane]

We have a function (hideWorkspaceAlertMessage) that clears the policy alertMessage property. It was added in this old PR, but I don't see it being populated anymore. Is alertMessage still being used in the BE? If no, I want to remove it from the FE.

old pr https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/5560/changes#diff-5fd7c80f3a9b43595640753f4037ca2b7d0bebeca557a20c4a06f89dc5028ccfR206-L210

function

App/src/libs/actions/Policy/Policy.ts

Lines 2065 to 2071 in 1185070

	function hideWorkspaceAlertMessage(policyID: string) {
	if (!deprecatedAllPolicies?.[policyID]) {
	return;
	}
	Onyx.merge(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.POLICY}${policyID}`, {alertMessage: ''});
	}

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[rushatgabhane]

old pr https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/5560/changes#diff-5fd7c80f3a9b43595640753f4037ca2b7d0bebeca557a20c4a06f89dc5028ccfR206-L210

function

App/src/libs/actions/Policy/Policy.ts

Lines 2065 to 2071 in 1185070

	function hideWorkspaceAlertMessage(policyID: string) {
	if (!deprecatedAllPolicies?.[policyID]) {
	return;
	}
	Onyx.merge(`${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.POLICY}${policyID}`, {alertMessage: ''});
	}

@MelvinBot help answer the question please

[MelvinBot]

alertMessage appears to be dead code on the frontend — it is never populated by any frontend API call or Onyx operation.

Here's what I found:

Where alertMessage exists today

Location	Line(s)	What it does
src/types/onyx/Policy.ts	1902	Type definition (alertMessage?: string)
src/libs/actions/Policy/Policy.ts	2065-2071	hideWorkspaceAlertMessage() — only ever clears it to ''
src/libs/actions/Policy/Policy.ts	3868	clearErrors() calls hideWorkspaceAlertMessage()
src/pages/workspace/WorkspaceInvitePage.tsx	182-183, 217	Checks and displays policy?.alertMessage in the invite page alert

Why it's dead code

• Never set to a non-empty value: I searched all optimisticData, successData, failureData, and Onyx.merge/Onyx.set calls across the entire App codebase. No frontend code ever assigns a non-empty value to alertMessage on a policy.
• Only cleared: The only Onyx write is {alertMessage: ''} in hideWorkspaceAlertMessage().
• Original purpose: PR Add inline errors to workspace modal #5560 (from 2021) added this for workspace invite error handling. The alertMessage was likely set by backend API responses (via onyxData in the response), but that backend behavior appears to have been removed or replaced over time. The frontend now uses policy.errors for invite validation errors instead.

What about the backend?

I don't have access to the backend repos (Web-Expensify/Auth) in this workspace to confirm, but based on the frontend evidence: even if the backend still sends alertMessage in some edge case, the frontend immediately clears it on mount of WorkspaceInvitePage (via clearErrors() in a useEffect), so users would never see it.

Recommendation

It should be safe to remove from the frontend:

1. Remove the alertMessage property from the Policy type (src/types/onyx/Policy.ts:1902)
2. Remove hideWorkspaceAlertMessage() and its call in clearErrors() (src/libs/actions/Policy/Policy.ts)
3. Remove the alertMessage references in WorkspaceInvitePage.tsx

To be thorough, you may want to confirm with the backend team that no API endpoint currently returns alertMessage in policy onyxData, but the frontend evidence strongly suggests this is unused.

Note: The other alertMessage references in the codebase (language files for cardPage.cardFraudAlert.alertMessage, Onfido component) are completely unrelated to the policy property.