Search-Expense report opens instead of transaction thread when expense with comment is deleted

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: v9.0.21-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+kh050806@applause.expensifail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Submit two expenses to any user.
3. Go to transaction thread of second expense.
4. Send a reply and delete the expense.
5. Go to Search.
6. Click on the first expense submitted in Step 2.

Expected Result:

The transaction thread should open.

Actual Result:

The expense report opens.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6573414_1723762324527.20240816_064726.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @anmurali (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.

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[IuliiaHerets]

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

[MonilBhavsar]

cc @luacmartins since you're working on Search and seems to be coming from #46324.
I believe this is backend back. We need to account for deleted transactions on the server side