[$500] [HOLD for payment 2023-09-04] Cleared Statement Reappears Briefly When Deleting Comment Changes

[m-natarajan]

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Action Performed:

1. Access the staging Expensify website.
2. Open any chat and write a message.
3. Hover over the message and click on the edit icon.
4. Clear the message and click on the save changes icon.
5. Observe that the delete page popup appears, click on the delete button.
6. Notice that the cleared statement briefly reappears before being deleted.

Expected Result:

When clearing and deleting a comment, the cleared statement should not reappear even briefly.

Actual Result:

The cleared statement reappears briefly when deleting comment changes.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.3.56-3
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

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Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @tewodrosGirmaA
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1692693288512319

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @johncschuster (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @AndrewGable (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[shubham1206agra]

Unable to repro in DEV

[AndrewGable]

I can reproduce on staging, cannot reproduce on production. Not sure if it's a deploy blocker, but looking into possible offending PRs.