[Due for payment 2025-06-18] [$250] Report-Report is not shown in WS chat online after trying to move it to deleted WS offline

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Version Number: 9.1.55
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
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Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): N/A
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: MacBook Air 15.5 Chrome, iPhone 15 iOS 18.4.1
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Preconditions: user signed into two devices. Steps are performed on the main device unless marked as "secondary device"

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com and sign in with expensifail account
2. Create two workspaces
3. Navigate to the first workspace and submit a manual expense, disable the internet connection
4. Secondary device: delete the second workspace
5. On the report details page click "More", "Change workspace" and select the second workspace
6. Enable the internet connection
7. Verify the error, that the workspace change cannot be completed is displayed, click on the "x" to remove the error message
8. Navigate to the 1st workspace chat

Expected Result:

The expense report is displayed in the chat of the Workspace 1 after moving it to Workspace 2 failed

Actual Result:

The expense report is not displayed in the chat of the Workspace 1 after moving it to Workspace 2 failed. After clearing cache it is shown in the workspace chat as expected

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @NicMendonca

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

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Possible culprit PRs for this issue

• fix: actionable whisper is still present after adding track expense to workspace #63070: The PR's test steps and title involve adding expenses to a workspace and handling action whispers after workspace changes, closely matching the issue's flow of changing workspaces and expense reports not showing correctly in workspace chat.
• fix: track expense disappears after delete offline #62470: This PR addresses offline deletion of expenses and ensuring expenses do not disappear incorrectly, which relates to the issue's offline workspace deletion and expense visibility after failed workspace moves.