[Due for payment 2025-05-20] [$500][HIGH] Approve button not showing up on reports even though need to approve them

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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Issue reported by: @danielrvidal
Slack conversation (hyperlinked to channel name): #Quality

Action Performed:

1. Navigate into some employee expense chats which have reports to approve.
2. Observe the report preview

Expected Result:

Approve button displayed in report preview

Actual Result

The Approve button is not displayed on the report preview initially. However, it appears in the report details view when clicked. Additionally, navigating to the expense chat causes the Approve button to show up on the report preview as well.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Platforms Tested:

On which of our officially supported platforms was this issue tested:

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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The video for the issue, logs and profile trace are in the OP

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This has been labelled "Needs Reproduction". Follow the steps here: https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/16989

[RachCHopkins]

Report Previews are behind a Beta.

[RachCHopkins]

Turns out this is not the new "report previews" feature, just the bog standard preview. (no beta required)

Took me a while to repro, and not with my test reports - I had an old one that was in a workspace chat where the Approve button actually vanished while I was looking at it, and it didn't come back until I clicked in and back out of it.

I had another which said Submit, and after I clicked it said Approve, then flicked back to Submit and then back to Approve in quick succession. Sadly it doesn't seem to do these things while I am recording the screen.

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