IOU - An administrator cannot edit an unpaid IOU created by an employee

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Version Number: 1.4.23-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
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
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

Preconditions:
In OldDot under admin, create a Collect group policy, enable categories and add 3 categories, add an employee to the policy.

1. Open New Expensify app
2. Log in to the employee's account
3. Tap on the green plus button (FAB)
4. Select Request money
5. Select any currency and amount
6. Click next
7. Choose a group policy room
8. Click on "Show more"
9. Select a category and fill in the rest of the required data
10. Complete the IOU request
11. Re-login with the administrator account
12. Navigate to the WS room where the IOU was sent
13. Open the IOU created by the employee
14. Try editing the IOU details

Expected Result:

The administrator should be able to edit an unpaid IOU created by an employee

Actual Result:

An administrator cannot edit an unpaid IOU created by an employee

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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[melvin-bot]

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

[unidev727]

Proposal

from: @unicorndev-727

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

IOU - An administrator cannot edit an unpaid IOU created by an employee

What is the root cause of that problem?

The root cause is that only isRequestor can edit if the report is not approved or settled here.

App/src/libs/ReportUtils.ts

Line 1901 in 5d0931d

return !isReportApproved(moneyRequestReport) && !isSettled(moneyRequestReport?.reportID) && isRequestor;

This is derived from this #33633

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

We need to update like this.

return !isReportApproved(moneyRequestReport) && !isSettled(moneyRequestReport?.reportID) && (isRequestor || isAdmin || isManager);

What alternative solutions did you explore?

N/A

[tgolen]

@youssef-lr can you confirm this was a regression from your PR and if so, work on a fix for it? If you confirm it's not related to your PR, please assign it back to me. @unicorndev-727 thanks for the initial RCA!

[Pujan92]

Is it intentional to not allow edit when the status is OPEN as I am seeing the comment in that PR.

App/src/libs/ReportUtils.ts

Lines 1896 to 1898 in 5d0931d

	// Admin & managers can always edit coding fields such as tag, category, billable, etc. As long as the report has a state higher than OPEN.
	if ((isAdmin || isManager) && !isDraftExpenseReport(moneyRequestReport)) {
	return true;

[youssef-lr]

Correct @Pujan92, the report is not submitted yet, so the admin shouldn't be able to edit it. cc @trjExpensify we can close this right?