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$ #82171
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  1. Create a workspace and open the Workflow page.
  2. In Submissions, set the frequency to Daily.
  3. Create an expense in the workspace chat and wait for the report to be automatically submitted the same day.
  4. Once the report is submitted, verify that Submitted via delay submission message appear and contain Explain and icon.
  5. Click delay submission and verify that the help site URL opens.
  6. Click Explain and verify that a thread is started with the message:

    "Please explain this to me"

  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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// TODO: These must be filled out, or the issue title must include "[No QA]."

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Pull request overview

This PR implements the handling of the "delay submissions" message for reports submitted via harvesting (delayed submission workflow). When Concierge sends an automated submit message that also has AI reasoning attached, it now shows a restructured UI with the text "submitted via [delay submissions link]. [Explain] ✨" instead of the previous HTML-rendered automaticallySubmitted string.

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  • New wasSubmittedViaHarvesting prop added to ReportActionItemMessageWithExplain to conditionally render a custom "submitted via delay submissions" layout with a clickable link and the Explain feature.
  • New submittedVia and delaySubmissions translation keys added across all 10 supported languages.
  • PureReportActionItem.tsx now passes wasSubmittedViaHarvesting to the ReportActionItemMessageWithExplain component when the submitted action was via harvesting.

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ReportActionItemMessageWithExplain.tsx Adds wasSubmittedViaHarvesting prop and the new "submitted via delay submissions + Explain" rendering branch
PureReportActionItem.tsx Passes wasSubmittedViaHarvesting to the component when the SUBMITTED/SUBMITTED_AND_CLOSED action used harvesting
en.ts Adds submittedVia and delaySubmissions translation keys
de.ts, es.ts, fr.ts, it.ts, nl.ts, pl.ts, pt-BR.ts, zh-hans.ts Same two keys added in each respective language
ja.ts Same keys added, but with incorrect word order (see comments)

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@samranahm samranahm changed the title 82171/handle delay submissions message refactor: handle delay submissions message help site URL with explain feature Mar 1, 2026
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❌ CLEAN-REACT-PATTERNS-1 (docs)

The wasSubmittedViaHarvesting boolean prop is a configuration flag that causes if/else branching inside the component (line 80), controlling two entirely different rendering strategies. The parent (PureReportActionItem.tsx line 1334) already gates this component behind if (wasSubmittedViaHarvesting), so the prop is always true at the only call site that passes it -- the child re-checks a condition the parent already resolved.

Instead of adding a boolean flag to switch rendering paths, consider extracting the harvesting-specific rendering into its own component (e.g., ReportActionItemHarvestingMessageWithExplain) that handles anchor parsing and the explain link. The parent already knows which variant to render, so it can choose the right component directly:

// In PureReportActionItem.tsx, line 1334:
if (wasSubmittedViaHarvesting) {
    children = (
        <ReportActionItemHarvestingMessageWithExplain
            message={translate('iou.automaticallySubmitted')}
            action={action}
            childReport={childReport}
            originalReport={originalReport}
        />
    );
}

This keeps each component focused on a single rendering concern and avoids the boolean flag configuration pattern.


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FitseTLT commented Mar 2, 2026

@samranahm this approach make things more complicated. Why can't we use RenderHtml like before and only add the sparkle icon at the end?

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Why can't we use RenderHtml like before and only add the sparkle icon at the end?

@FitseTLT RenderHtml renders a View container, so we cannot append the icon inline within its text output. Any icon added outside of RenderHtml will render as a separate element, not as part of the same text flow.

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FitseTLT commented Mar 2, 2026

Why can't we use RenderHtml like before and only add the sparkle icon at the end?

@FitseTLT RenderHtml renders a View container, so we cannot append the icon inline within its text output. Any icon added outside of RenderHtml will render as a separate element, not as part of the same text flow.

But what you are doing is not a comprehensive fix. U are almost doing a rebuild for RenderHTML by identifying only anchor tags and rendering it separately. It is not wholistic we don't know what we are expecting on html now or even for the future. U have some options

  1. investigate why components cannot be added inline with HTMLREnderer (from my shallow debugging it is the flex: 1 1 0; style of the div container of the rendered, if it helps)
  2. Maybe use custom renderer like EmojiRenderer (which we already have)

IN the mean time I will revert ur previous pr to avoid regression issues.

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FitseTLT commented Mar 2, 2026

PR is now reverted

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@FitseTLT PR ready for review.

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@FitseTLT PR ready for review.

Is the test failures not related to this?

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Ahh, yes this is related to previous implementation. Let me fix this

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...ents/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.tsx 87.71% <100.00%> (+0.21%) ⬆️
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@FitseTLT Please take a look.

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sparkle icon to be link

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@shawnborton can u verify the design in the snapshots here? And also to confirm, in the current implementation, now the sparkle icon is not part of the link, do you agree with that?

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Are we talking about this screenshot here?
CleanShot 2026-03-10 at 21 03 05@2x

I would think the icon is part of the link personally, but cc @Expensify/design to confirm.

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Agree with that

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Updated.

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@FitseTLT Pease take a look.

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Looks good to me 👍

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Thx. LGTM

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Agree - that looks good to me too

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🚀 Deployed to staging by https://github.com/marcaaron in version: 9.3.37-0 🚀

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Hi @samranahm. Our tester submitted the expense more than 12 hours ago, and she is still waiting for it to be auto-submitted. What is the estimated time for the expense to be auto-submitted?

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Recording.1790.mp4

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Hi @samranahm. Our tester submitted the expense more than 12 hours ago, and she is still waiting for it to be auto-submitted. What is the estimated time for the expense to be auto-submitted?

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@IuliiaHerets I think it submits at the end of the day but instead you can use this step, it tests the same thing

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  1. Open a Workspace expense chat.
  2. Create an expense with a known merchant (e.g., Starbucks) and leave the Category field empty.
  3. Wait for Concierge to automatically add the category and post a “set category based on past activity…” message.
  4. Verify that the Explain link with the branded icon (available in [Due for payment 2026-03-23] [Due for payment 2026-03-11] [$250] Update Explain feature icon to match brand guidelines #82171 (comment)) appears in the message.
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