[$500] Onboarding - Changing the URL during onboarding takes back to the first flow

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.11-2
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

Action Performed:

1. Sign out of the staging app if signed in already
2. Log in with a new Gmail address > Continue > Join
3. When the onboarding flow opens select any option in the "What do you want to do today?" flow
4. Click continue
5. Enter a first name in the next flow
6. Before clicking on continue, copy this link ( https://staging.new.expensify.com/settings/profile
   ) on your browser and hit enter

Expected Result:

After the page re-loads the user is taken to the current process of the onboarding flow ("What's your name?")

Actual Result:

The user is taken one step back in the onboarding flow("What do you want to do today?") and the previously filled-out name is displayed after clicking on continue

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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Bug6551299_1721806826933.2024-07-24_10_18_33.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @alexpensify (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.

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #wave-collect - Release 1

[lanitochka17]

@alexpensify FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[tsa321]

Proposal

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

Onboarding reset to first page if user change URL address

What is the root cause of that problem?

When user change the url while in onboarding, in here:

App/src/libs/Navigation/AppNavigator/createCustomBottomTabNavigator/BottomTabBar.tsx

Lines 59 to 64 in a79189f

	Welcome.isOnboardingFlowCompleted({
	onNotCompleted: () => {
	const {adaptedState} = getAdaptedStateFromPath(ROUTES.ONBOARDING_ROOT, linkingConfig.config);
	navigationRef.resetRoot(adaptedState);
	},
	});

App/src/libs/actions/Welcome.ts

Lines 56 to 57 in a79189f

	} else {
	onNotCompleted?.();

the problem occurs because the Welcome.isOnboardingFlowCompleted() function is triggered again when the URL changes, causing navigation back to the first page of onboarding. This happens because we do not store the onboarding progress in onyx and use ROUTES.ONBOARDING_ROOT on the onNotCompleted parameter of isOnboardingFlowCompleted

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

We could add onboardingDraft in onyx and store the current address in the onboardingDraft. Then the onNotComppleted will navigate to the last route stored in onBoardingDraft. So in each Welcome.isOnboardingFlowCompleted function call we need to adjust the onNotCompleted parameter to navigate to the stored route in onboardingDraft. Or if it is possible we could directly navigate do the navigation in onNotCompleted, but it seems the onNotCompleted parameter is different on each code that use it.
and if during onboarding process we need to store some data, we could do that in the onyx onboardingDraft too.

[alexpensify]

I'll test it soon; this GH is on my testing list.

[alexpensify]

I've tested this one and can confirm it happens. When you get to the name part, I think nothing has been saved, so I'm wondering if we can account for the page without the save action without clicking Continue on the first and last name tab.