[$250] Duplicate expenses message is shown for vacation delegate, but no "Review duplicates" button

[jponikarchuk]

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Version Number: 9.1.71-8
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): sdnjoidsjosdjsojo44@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.5 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• User A invites User B to the workspace.
• User A has added User B as vacation delegate in Account > Status > Vacation delegate.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. [User A] Go to workspace chat.
3. [User A] Submit two expenses with the same amount and merchant.
4. [User A] Open expense report and click Submit.
5. [User B] Open the submitted expense report.
6. [User B] Open any expense.

Expected Result:

"Review duplicates" should appear for User B, because User B can see the message about duplicate expenses in the expense report and transaction thread.

Actual Result:

User B can see the message about duplicate expenses in the expense report and transaction thread, but "Review duplicates" is not shown.

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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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @Ollyws

[melvin-bot]

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

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[github-actions]

👋 Friendly reminder that deploy blockers are time-sensitive ⏱ issues! Check out the open `StagingDeployCash` deploy checklist to see the list of PRs included in this release, then work quickly to do one of the following:

1. Identify the pull request that introduced this issue and revert it.
2. Find someone who can quickly fix the issue.
3. Fix the issue yourself.

[AndrewGable]

We are going to revert the offending PR. It's being worked on now.

[rushatgabhane]

Reverted here #65035

We can remove deploy blocker label

Kindly keep this bug open because we can still repro this by adding vacation delegate on oldDot

[chiragsalian]

Removing blocker label and checklist it off the deployer checklist.