[Duplicate Expenses] Add Distance Expense Support

[jjcoffee]

Explanation of Change

Adds support for distance expenses, with an additional BE fix for the case that was previously failing on the original PR - duplicating a distance expense from a non-default workspace. Previously this would return an error from the BE and the expense would not get added. Now we do add the expense and display an error about the rate being unavailable.

Fixed Issues

$ #77706
PROPOSAL: N/A

Tests

Same as QA steps.

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

Same as QA steps.

QA Steps

Prerequisites:

• Have at least two workspaces

1. Create a distance expense on the non-default workspace
2. Open the expense, go to More -> Duplicate
3. Go to the default workspace.
4. Verify that the expense from (1) is present in an open report or a new report if there wasn't an open one.
5. Verify that a Rate not valid for this workspace error shows up
6. Open the expense and verify that all the information is the same as the original expense, except for the date, which is set to today's date.
7. Go to More -> Duplicate.
8. Verify that a modal shows Fix the distance rate error and try again.
9. Tap Rate and correct the violation by selecting any rate.
10. Verify that the violation clears.
11. Go to More -> Duplicate and verify that no modal shows and the expense duplicates.

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

android-app-2026-01-06_17.05.29.mp4

Android: mWeb Chrome

android-chrome-2026-01-06_17.08.41.mp4

iOS: Native

ios-app-2026-01-06_16.58.18.mp4

iOS: mWeb Safari

ios-safari-2026-01-06_17.01.08.mp4

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

desktop-chrome-2026-01-07_15.41.08.mp4

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[jjcoffee]

Updated flow with modal:

desktop-chrome-2026-01-08_15.59.47.mp4

[hoangzinh]

Bug @jjcoffee Dup map distance while offline, App creates a manual distance expense

Expected: App should create a map distance while offline

Screen.Recording.2026-01-21.at.17.07.03.mov

[trjExpensify]

It should also inherit the 🚗 icon for distance type shouldn't it? Noticed here in that vid it's cash 💵 .

[jjcoffee]

Bug @jjcoffee Dup map distance while offline, App creates a manual distance expense

Expected: App should create a map distance while offline

@hoangzinh Hmm can't reproduce this, are you sure you have the latest changes? Or are there some specific steps you followed?

distance-map-desktop-chrome-2026-01-22_10.54.20.mp4

[hoangzinh]

Yes, I was on the latest commits of this PR @jjcoffee. Btw, I found reproducible steps here:

1. Go to the default workspace chat
2. Submit a map distance expense
3. Go to Troubleshoot -> Clear cache and restart (or sign out, then sign in)
4. Turn on offline mode
5. Go back to the map distance expense created in step 2.
6. Duplicate

Screen.Recording.2026-01-22.at.18.08.17.mov

[JS00001]

LGTM, lets fix the issue from @hoangzinh and then get this one in!

[jjcoffee]

Hmm in your previous video it doesn't look like there's Onyx data missing (since the map loads), so I wonder if something different is going on there.

I can reproduce following your steps here, it seems we don't have iouRequestType on the transaction after clearing the cache, we only have transactionType which has the generic distance type (rather than specifying if it's manual or map). Using transactionType as a fallback seems to work, otherwise we may need BE changes to set iouRequestType in the OpenApp response.

[hoangzinh]

iouRequestType is only stored at the client side. @jjcoffee what do you think about using getRequestType util here?

App/src/libs/TransactionUtils/index.ts

Line 252 in a0d5b7a

function getRequestType(transaction: OnyxEntry<Transaction>): IOURequestType {

[jjcoffee]

iouRequestType is only stored at the client side. @jjcoffee what do you think about using getRequestType util here?

Oh that's perfect, thanks! I don't know how I missed that 😄

[hoangzinh]

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Screenshots/Videos

Android: HybridApp

Screen.Recording.2026-01-23.at.05.57.40.android.mov

Android: mWeb Chrome

Screen.Recording.2026-01-23.at.05.49.29.android.c.mov

iOS: HybridApp

Screen.Recording.2026-01-23.at.06.09.21.ios.mov

iOS: mWeb Safari

Screen.Recording.2026-01-23.at.06.03.31.ios.s.mov

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

Screen.Recording.2026-01-23.at.05.39.16.web.mov

[hoangzinh]

LGTM 🙏

[JS00001]

Great work on this!

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🤖 android 🤖	success ✅
🍎 iOS 🍎	success ✅