[Due for payment 2025-05-07] Expense - Report header is blank briefly after opening transaction thread

[mitarachim]

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Version Number: 9.1.29-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: No, reproducible on hybrid only
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: Exp
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): dsjosijsdoijiosnsodj@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.3 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Bug 1:

Precondition:

• Account has self DM.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to self DM.
3. Track a manual expense.
4. Click on the expense preview.

Bug 2:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Open FAB > Create expense > Manual.
3. Submit two expenses to any user.
4. Go to transaction thread of any of the submitted expense.

Expected Result:

The transaction thread header will not be blank.

Actual Result:

The transaction thread header is blank briefly.

If the track expense is created offline, the transaction thread header is blank.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6804432_1744849539455.bug_1.mp4

Bug6804432_1744849539463.bug_2.mp4

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

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[nkdengineer]

Proposal

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

The transaction thread header is blank briefly.

What is the root cause of that problem?

It comes from #58476

We pass policy, parentReportActionParam, personalDetails as undefined here

App/src/components/AvatarWithDisplayName.tsx

Line 77 in 5e7543e

const title = getReportName(report, undefined, undefined, undefined, invoiceReceiverPolicy);

Which cause canUseDerivedValue is true, and an empty report name is returned

App/src/libs/ReportUtils.ts

Lines 4566 to 4570 in 5e7543e

	const canUseDerivedValue = report && policy === undefined && parentReportActionParam === undefined && personalDetails === undefined && invoiceReceiverPolicy === undefined;
	if (canUseDerivedValue && reportAttributes?.[report.reportID]) {
	return reportAttributes[report.reportID].reportName;
	}

So empty UI is displayed based on this condition

App/src/components/AvatarWithDisplayName.tsx

Line 133 in 5e7543e

{!!report && !!title && (

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

We should pass policy to getReportName function here

const title = getReportName(report, policy, undefined, undefined, invoiceReceiverPolicy);

App/src/components/AvatarWithDisplayName.tsx

Line 77 in 5e7543e

const title = getReportName(report, undefined, undefined, undefined, invoiceReceiverPolicy);

What specific scenarios should we cover in automated tests to prevent reintroducing this issue in the future?

None

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

We should check reportName is valid here instead of checking the reportAttributes

if (canUseDerivedValue && reportAttributes?.[report.reportID]?.reportName && reportAttributes?.[report.reportID]?.reportName !== CONST.REPORT.DEFAULT_REPORT_NAME) {
    return reportAttributes[report.reportID].reportName;
}

App/src/libs/ReportUtils.ts

Line 4568 in 5e7543e

if (canUseDerivedValue && reportAttributes?.[report.reportID]) {

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