Expense - "Unapprove" option is available in report with deleted expense that has comments

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.5-4
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. [User A] Submit two expenses to User B
3. [User A] Go to transaction thread of one of the expenses, and add some comments
4. [User A] Delete the expense that has comments
5. [User B] Go to DM with User A
6. {User B] Click on the expense preview
7. [User B] Pay the report
8. [User B] Go to the report that has comments (expense deleted)
9. [User B] Click on the report header

Expected Result:

"Unapprove" option should not appear since the expense is deleted, only comments are left in the report

Actual Result:

"Unapprove" options shows up even though the expense is deleted

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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Bug6536088_1720456580636.20240709_002903.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

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

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[lanitochka17]

@blimpich 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

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #wave-collect - Release 1

[blimpich]

Looking into this now

[blimpich]

Think I know what caused this, testing locally.

[blimpich]

Having trouble repro-ing locally.

[blimpich]

Was able to repro and confirm it stems from this PR

cc: @rushatgabhane @Beamanator

[blimpich]

Demoting because this is edge case.

[blimpich]

@Beamanator @rushatgabhane assigned both of you as this is follow up for this PR you worked on recently.

[rushatgabhane]

cool cool we have to check for deleted report here

https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/44229/files#diff-409b0e2fb439856e9897b808014031ce244a427d116ed30f37a2e0117599adc4R202

[garrettmknight]

@rushatgabhane I don't think we should be showing Unapprove at the expense level to begin with.

[Beamanator]

True, I'm removing the Unapprove button from showing at the expense level in #45049, as that also fixes #44969

[Beamanator]

Fix merged & CPing

[melvin-bot]

@Beamanator, @rushatgabhane Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

[Beamanator]

This should be fixed already