[$250] Approve button doesn't appear on the preview unless navigated to expense report

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Version Number: 9.0.78-2
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #52537
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): nathanmulugetatesting+2600@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Windows 11 pro/chrome, iPhone 11 / iOS 18.1, Samsung Galaxy A15 5G/Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Pre conditions:

• Create a workspace as an owner
• Enable workflows and setup an advanced workflow where submitter submits to approver 1 then approver 1 approves to approver 2

1. Submit an expense as the submitter
2. Sign in as the approver 1 and approve the expense
3. Sign in as the approver 2 and open the workspace chat of submitter
4. Open the expense report

Expected Result:

The approve button appears on the expense preview

Actual Result:

The approve button appears on the expense preview only after navigating into the expense report and navigating back to the workspace chat

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6702032_1735123182988.bandicam_2024-12-25_13-35-52-830.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @Ollyws

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @bfitzexpensify (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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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @Ollyws (External)

[melvin-bot]

@Ollyws, @bfitzexpensify Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[melvin-bot]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[melvin-bot]

@Ollyws, @bfitzexpensify Still overdue 6 days?! Let's take care of this!

[melvin-bot]

@Ollyws @bfitzexpensify this issue was created 2 weeks ago. Are we close to approving a proposal? If not, what's blocking us from getting this issue assigned? Don't hesitate to create a thread in #expensify-open-source to align faster in real time. Thanks!

[melvin-bot]

@Ollyws, @bfitzexpensify 8 days overdue is a lot. Should this be a Weekly issue? If so, feel free to change it!

[burczu]

Hi! I'm Bartek from Callstack - expert contributor group. I’d like to work on this issue.

[melvin-bot]

@Ollyws, @bfitzexpensify 12 days overdue. Walking. Toward. The. Light...

[Ollyws]

Go ahead @burczu
🎀👀🎀 C+ reviewed

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @justinpersaud, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

[burczu]

Hey, I have a question regarding reproduction steps:

Does this statement:

Enable workflows and setup an advanced workflow where submitter submits to approver 1 then approver 1 approves to approver 2

Mean these settings?:

[burczu]

Hey! I'm unable to reproduce the issue - it looks like it works as expected (the submit button for the second approved shows up once the first approver approves the expense). Could some please help confirming it? Thanks.

[melvin-bot]

@justinpersaud, @burczu, @Ollyws, @bfitzexpensify Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

[mvtglobally]

Issue not reproducible during KI retests. (First week)

[melvin-bot]

@justinpersaud, @burczu, @Ollyws, @bfitzexpensify Still overdue 6 days?! Let's take care of this!