[Held requests] When partial approving report, long delay creating new report for held expense(s)

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Version Number: 1.4.70-2
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @JmillsExpensify
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1714761240737509

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to a report containing several expenses from someone else
2. Click in the three dot menu in the expense
3. Choose Hold, leave comment
4. Confirm that the expense is on hold (e.g. Hold in the header)
5. Navigate to the report, click Approve
6. Choose Approve only…

Expected Result:

A new report with the held expense is created immediately in the front-end

Actual Result:

A new report with the held expense is created 10+ seconds later

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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partial.approving.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @kevinksullivan

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @kevinksullivan (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.

[JmillsExpensify]

After speaking internally, we landed on the following solution:

• Optimistically create the report
• Use the "pending" pattern as long as the user is offline
• Set the report total/currency optimistically to the first expense on the report
• Message in subsequent expense previews to correctly reflect that the report total will be updated when the user comes online
• Update X expenses on the report preview to correctly reflect the number of expenses on the report

We already employ this solution for IOU reports but we need to update expense reports to bring them in line and do the same thing.

[JmillsExpensify]

Screenshots for clarity

Report created optimistically with multiple currencies

Report preview appropriately showing 2 expenses

[JmillsExpensify]

Based on a Slack convo, I think that @war-in might be interested in this issue?

[nkdengineer]

@JmillsExpensify This bug is the same as #39338. I think we should re-open the original issue.

[war-in]

Based on a Slack convo, I think that @war-in might be interested in this issue?

Yes, I would like to take this one

[trjExpensify]

@war-in are you good to prioritise putting up a PR for this one?