[$250] Chat - Expense preview with "Owes 0,00" appears when deleting all the expenses of a report.

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Version Number: 9.1.4-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: Yes, reproducible on both
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/5643822&group_by=cases:section_id&group_order=asc&group_id=295815
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): ibellicotest+294@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Motorola MotoG60 - Android 12 - Chrome / Windows 10 - Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

1. Open the Expensify app.
2. Open a workspace chat.
3. Create at least three expenses and submit them to the workspace.
4. Open the expense report with the three expenses.
5. Delele all the expenses.
6. Return to LHN.
7. Open another chat.
8. Navigate to workspace chat again.
9. Check the expense preview that appears after this action.

Expected Result:

After deleting all the expenses from a report and returning to workspace chat, no expense preview should be visible.

Actual Result:

Expense preview with "Owes 0,00" message is displayed on workspace chat, after deleting all the expenses from a report. This preview appears after navigating to a different chat and returning to workspace conversation.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6750643_1740200828894.0_00.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @eVoloshchak

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

[gurus00]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Chat - Expense preview with "Owes 0,00" appears when deleting all the expenses of a report.

What is the root cause of that problem?

Store for the Workspace owes is not updated correctly after deleting the expenses

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

Check and fix store for the workspace owes

What specific scenarios should we cover in automated tests to prevent reintroducing this issue in the future?

N/A

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[eVoloshchak]

@gurus00, thank you for taking an interest in resolving this!

What is the root cause of that problem?
Store for the Workspace owes is not updated correctly after deleting the expenses

That is correct, but why? What is the root cause of this bug? Why is it not updated, which variable/line/function/component is at fault here?

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?
Check and fix store for the workspace owes

How exactly do we fix it?

You can look at closed PR's, navigate to the issues for those PR's and take a look at proposals there to get a better idea of a valid proposal.
Looking forward to the updated proposal!

[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]

@eVoloshchak 6 days overdue. This is scarier than being forced to listen to Vogon poetry!

[eVoloshchak]

Not overdue, awaiting for proposals

[melvin-bot]

@eVoloshchak @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]

@eVoloshchak Eep! 4 days overdue now. Issues have feelings too...

[melvin-bot]

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