After submitting expense to a vacation delegate, expense thread is not shown in Inbox

[jponikarchuk]

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Version Number: 9.1.71-1
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: N/A - new feature, doesn't exist in prod
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #61845
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): agexptest+ed2406@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Samsung S23FE/ Android 15
App Component: User Settings

Action Performed:

Precondition: Have a workspace with workflows enabled and an Approver user set.
The Approver user has set a vacation delegate who is a workspace member.
The submitter can be the admin user or an employee.

Steps

1. [Web] Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. [Web] Log in with the workspace admin
3. [Web] Submit a manual expense to the workspace
4. [Android] Open the Expensify Hybrid app
5. [Android] Log in with the vacation delegate account
6. [Android] Look for the expense thread (submitted in step 3) in the Inbox
7. [Android] Go to Account > Troubleshoot > Clear cache and restart
8. [Android] Head back to the Inbox looking for the expense thread
9. [Android] Kill the app and open it again

Expected Result:

After step 3, the expense thread should be shown immediately in the Inbox.

Actual Result:

After steps 3, 5, and 7, the expense thread does not appear in the Inbox.
After step 9, the expense thread appears.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot]

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

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[tgolen]

This one kinda sounds like it's a backend issue...

[tgolen]

I wasn't able to find any backend changes in the last deploy that looked like it might have caused this

[deetergp]

I think we can demote this one since, the thread does eventually show up after a refresh/restart. I think we need to update the back end so that we are sending an onyx update to the delegate.