[PAYMENT MAY 29][$250] Split - Expense text is missing from the preview tile when creating split expense

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.66.0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Issue found when executing PR #40961

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to a group chat
2. Do a manual split there
3. Use the quick action button to do another split

Expected Result:

Expense text should be visible

Actual Result:

Expense text is missing from the preview tile when creating split expense. It's visible if you use the quick action button to do the same split

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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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @garrettmknight

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Triggered auto assignment to @slafortune (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.

[gijoe0295]

Proposal

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

Expense text is missing from the preview tile when creating split expense. It's visible if you use the quick action button to do the same split

What is the root cause of that problem?

The Expense text is the transaction's merchant.

For quick action, we skip the confirmation screen and pass merchant as empty:

App/src/pages/iou/request/step/IOURequestStepAmount.tsx

Line 193 in 08d8735

merchant: '',

while in confirmation screen (split without quick action), merchant is (none) which was initiated here.

For the first case, merchant is eventually evaluated to Expense while kept as (none) for the second case:

App/src/libs/actions/IOU.ts

Line 3140 in 2b0b12c

merchant || Localize.translateLocal('iou.expense'),

That's why splitting through QAB has Expense merchant while normal split does not.

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

There are 2 options:

1. Keep Expense for both cases

I think in general we fallback to Expense for bill split transactions if merchant was empty in createSplitsAndOnyxData.

App/src/libs/actions/IOU.ts

Line 3140 in 2b0b12c

merchant || Localize.translateLocal('iou.expense'),

const isMerchantEmpty = !merchant || merchant === CONST.TRANSACTION.PARTIAL_TRANSACTION_MERCHANT

...

merchant: isMerchantEmpty ? Localize.translateLocal('iou.expense') : merchant

2. Do not show Expense for both cases

That means we fallback to (none).

merchant: merchant || CONST.TRANSACTION.PARTIAL_TRANSACTION_MERCHANT

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

NA

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @s77rt (External)

[s77rt]

@gijoe0295 Thanks for the proposal. Your RCA makes sense. Let's align on the expected behavior and discuss the solution.

🎀 👀 🎀 The expected behavior is not clear, when creating a split should we:

1. Set the merchant to "Expense"
2. Keep the merchant empty