Expense - Unreported expense added to report shows non existent category

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Version Number: 9.1.87-2
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Go to https://staging.new.expensify.com/home
2. Open self DM
3. Create a manual expense
4. Open workpace chat
5. Create a report and add an expense
6. Open the expense - more - add Unreported expense
7. Open the Unreported expense added to report
8. Send the message "2"
9. Note category set as Business meals which doesn't exists
10. Navigate back and reopen the expense page
11. Note category no longer valid shown now

Expected Result:

Unreported expense added to report must show existent category or musn't show any category

Actual Result:

Unreported expense added to report shows non existent category "Business meals" after sending message as "2"

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Select the officially supported platforms where the issue was reproduced:

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

Platforms Tested:

On which of our officially supported platforms was this issue tested:

• 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 @zanyrenney (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.

[github-actions]

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[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

💬 A slack conversation has been started in #expensify-open-source

[lanitochka17]

Production:

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[MarioExpensify]

Demoting from Deploy Blocker, this comes from AZ Categorization, it is not related to the App.

@marcochavezf I think you may have worked on this recently?