[$250] Vacation delegate - "You:approved" is shown in Admin's when the report approved by delegate

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Version Number: 9.1.71-4
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: N/A - new feature, doesn't exist in prod
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #61845
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): N/A
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: iPhone 15 iOS 18.5, MacBook Air 15.5 Chrome
App Component: Left Hand Navigation (LHN)

Action Performed:

Preconditions: Workspace Admin invited User B as a member to the workspace, set User B as a vacation delegate in the Profile/ Status. Both are gmail accounts.

1. Log in to ND Hybrid app as the Admin - Create an expense in the workspace chat, log out
2. Log in as User B - Open the expense report and approve it
3. Log in as the Admin - Open the report, approved by User B
4. Admin, navigate to the LHN and observe the system message for the report

Expected Result:

System message in the LHN for the report, approved by the vacation delegate, should display delegate's name and the approve action

Actual Result:

System message in the LHN for the report, approved by the vacation delegate, displays "You: approved" to the workspace admin, instead of [vacation delegate's name]: approved

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6869808_1750875629667.You_approved.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @dangrous

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

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Triggered auto assignment to @joekaufmanexpensify (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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[nlemma]

@joekaufmanexpensify FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.