[Merge IOU] Individual chat becomes unresponsive on LHN after merging IOU with expense on workspace

[jponikarchuk]

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Version Number: 9.2.9-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: N/A - new feature, doesn't exist in prod
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #68204
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): ibellicotest+1769@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Motorola MotoG60 / Android 12 / Chrome ( mWeb / Hybrid app)
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Prerequisite: Account has at least one workspace available.

1. Open the Expensify app.
2. Open any workspace chat.
3. Create a manual expense.
4. Return to "Inbox"
5. Create a new manual expense and submit it to another user with no existing conversation.
6. Open the just created IOU.
7. Tap on "More" and select "Merge"
8. Select the expense created on workspace chat.
9. Keep all the details from the expense on workspace chat and finish the merging flow.
10. Once redirected to chat again, navigate to workspace chat.
11. Note that expense was merged correctly.
12. Return to "Inbox"
13. Try to open individual chat again.
14. Note that chat is unresponsive.

Expected Result:

User should be able to reopen individual chat after merging an expense from it with another one from a workspace chat.

Actual Result:

After merging an IOU from an individual chat with an expense from a workspace chat, individual chat can´t be reopened. Chat becomes unresposive on LHN.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @adelekennedy (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.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @MarioExpensify (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[melvin-bot]

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[dominictb]

This can be demoted because we just disabled merging IOUs cc @youssef-lr @garrettmknight

[MarioExpensify]

@dominictb do you have a link for the PR that disabled merging IOUs?