[Due for payment 2025-05-14] [Due for payment 2025-05-08] Reports -"Complete" button on deleted task becomes responsive when turning to Most Recent mode

[mitarachim]

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Version Number: 9.1.33-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: N/A
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): ibellicotest+627@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Motorola MotoG60 - Android 12 - Chrome / Windows 10 - Chrome
App Component: Other

Action Performed:

1. Open the staging.new.expensify.com website.
2. Open any chat.
3. Create a task.
4. Open the just created task and tap on the header.
5. Delete the task.
6. Navigate to "Reports"
7. Tap on the bookmark icon.
8. Tap on "Tasks"
9. Note that the deleted task is still displayed and the "Complete" button is grayed out and unresponsive.
10. Navigate to "Account" and select "Preferences"
11. Change priority mode to "Focus"
12. Change priority mode to "Most Recent" again.
13. Return to "Reports" > "Tasks"
14. Note that "Complete" button is now responsive again.
15. Tap on it and open the task.
16. Note that an error message is displayed.
17. Dismiss error message and return to LHN.
18. Note that a new chat is displayed for the deleted task and that the chat has a RBR that can´t be dismissed.

Expected Result:

Deleted task shouldn´t display the option to be marked as complete.

Actual Result:

"Complete" button on deleted task on "Reports" becomes responsive again after switching to "Focus" mode and returning to "Most Recent". Tapping on it, triggers a "You don´t have permission to take the requested action" error message and after this action, a new chat for the task, appears on LHN, with a RBR that can´t be dismissed.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6815835_1745888722617.Recent.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @laurenreidexpensify

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @laurenreidexpensify (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.

[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

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[samranahm]

Proposal

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

Complete" button on deleted task becomes responsive when turning to Most Recent mode

What is the root cause of that problem?

Here

App/src/components/SelectionList/Search/TaskListItemRow.tsx

Lines 103 to 105 in bd0f3f2

	text={translate('task.action')}
	style={[styles.w100]}
	isDisabled={!canActionTask(taskItem.report, session?.accountID ?? CONST.DEFAULT_NUMBER_ID, taskCreatorID, taskAssigneeID)}

we check if the complete button should be disable

inside canActionTask we check if it's isCanceledTaskReport

App/src/libs/actions/Task.ts

Lines 1238 to 1240 in bd0f3f2

	if (ReportUtils.isCanceledTaskReport(taskReport)) {
	return false;
	}

Then inside isCanceledTaskReport the only method we use is by checking isDeletedParentAction that indeed return true initially but as soon we change our preference mood the data get reset and isDeletedParentAction become undefined leading to make to Complete button responsive even the report was closed/ deleted

App/src/libs/ReportUtils.ts

Lines 1314 to 1318 in bd0f3f2

	if (!isEmptyObject(parentReportAction) && (getReportActionMessageReportUtils(parentReportAction)?.isDeletedParentAction ?? false)) {
	return true;
	}
	if (!isEmptyObject(report) && report?.isDeletedParentAction) {

When we delete the task report

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

We should explicitly check is the report is closed here then return true

if (!isEmptyObject(report) && (report?.isDeletedParentAction || isClosedReport(report))) {
    return true;
    }

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)

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[Beamanator]

@samranahm thanks so much for the proposal! But since this is a deploy blocker, we're pretty confident this bug came from a recent PR, so we would like to prioritize finding which PR caused this bug so the PR author can fix this... Can you help us find the PR that may have caused this bug? 🙏