[Due for payment 2025-11-17] [$250] Onboarding - New user is dropped in self dm first after creating a workspace during onboarding

[tgolen]

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Version Number: 9.2.31-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #72177
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Sign in to ND with a new private domain user
2. Enter the name
3. When prompted to join available workspaces, tap Skip
4. On the next screen, select Track and budget expenses.
5. On "Stay organized..." screen tap "Create workspace", continue
6. On "Invite members" screen tap Skip
7. Observe background of the "Test drive" screen, tap Skip

Expected Result:

User is not navigated to the self DM page after creating a workspace during onboarding

Actual Result:

New user is dropped in self dm first after creating a workspace during onboarding, then navigated to #admins

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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Bug6974955_1760473929364.Private_domain.1.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @akinwale

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Current assignee @greg-schroeder is eligible for the Bug assigner, not assigning anyone new.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @OfstadC (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.

[tgolen]

sorry @greg-schroeder. I did not mean to assign you to this one. I was copying an old issue and it automatically added you. I've re-applied to bug label to make sure BZ auto-assigner is used for assigning.

[mkzie2]

@tgolen I can work on this based on this comment