[$250] [Held requests][HIGH] Hold button on expense preview appears only if open the expense first

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: 9.0.19-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
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Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): gocemate+workspaceapprover157@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

Precondition:

1. Login as the owner of the workspace> Create a workspace
2. Invite the approver and employee
3. Enable "workflows"> On the "Workflow" editor - enable "Add Approvals"> Set the Approver account as the Approver

Steps:

1. Log in as the employee and submit 2 expenses to the workspace
2. Log in as the Approver> Navigate to the employee workspace chat with expenses
3. Right click on expenses to open the menu

Expected Result:

There should be Hold option when approver open the right click menu from expense

Actual Result:

Hold button on expense preview appears only if open the transaction thread page first

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6569910_1723470417784.Recording__3689.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @robertjchen

[melvin-bot]

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

[IuliiaHerets]

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

[github-actions]

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[cdOut]

This is definitely related to the changes I've made in the hold cleanup PR, please assign me so I can look into fixing this issue.