Category - App returns to main chat when refreshing Categories Settings page

[m-natarajan]

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Version Number: v1.4.45-1
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
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Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause internal team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• User is admin of Collect workspace that has categories.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to workspace settings.
3. Select the Collect workspace.
4. Click Categories.
5. Click Settings.
6. Refresh the page.

Expected Result:

App will remain on workspace category page (note the background).

Actual Result:

App returns to chat on home page with Categories Settings open (note the background).

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

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

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Bug6397080_1709215250384.20240229_110849.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @lschurr (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[github-actions]

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @youssef-lr (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[m-natarajan]

We think that this bug might be related to #wave8-collect-admins
cc @zanyrenney

[m-natarajan]

@youssef-lr 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.

[luacmartins]

This is a known issue - #37517. I'll close this one in favor of #37517.

[melvin-bot]

⚠️ Looks like this issue was linked to a Deploy Blocker here

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