[Due for payment 2026-01-27] [$250] Expense - Moved this report chat shown as html tag in search & member section

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Version Number: V9.2.71-5
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from BrowserStack: #67460
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): dreamnitethedragon+726366363@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Redminote 10S Android 13
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Pre-condition:
1.Account B has a default workspace and another workspace with bank account added
2.As account A set preference currency as USD and send a IOU to user B

1. Launch app
2. Open the IOU
3. Tap pay dropdown and select workspace with bank account added
4. Navigate to 1:1 chat
5. Open the thread page for system message "moved this expense"
6. Tap header - members
7. Note header subtitle
8. Navigate back twice and tap search icon
9. Note the thread chat in search

Expected Result:

In members section, header subtitle must not show html tags.

In search, thread chat must not be shown as html tags.

Actual Result:

In members section, header subtitle shows html tags.

In search, thread chat is shown as html tags.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug7020520_1764852110407.Screenrecorder-2025-12-04-18-11-11-53.mp4

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Triggered auto assignment to @kadiealexander (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.

[daledah]

Proposal

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

In members section, header subtitle shows html tags.

What is the root cause of that problem?

We don't parser html to text here

App/src/pages/RoomMembersPage.tsx

Line 406 in 39f8fc4

subtitle={StringUtils.lineBreaksToSpaces(getReportName(report))}

App/src/components/Search/SearchAutocompleteList.tsx

Lines 772 to 777 in d34357a

	const styledRecentReports = recentReportsOptions.map((item) => ({
	...item,
	pressableStyle: styles.br2,
	text: StringUtils.lineBreaksToSpaces(item.text),
	wrapperStyle: [styles.pr3, styles.pl3],
	}));

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

We should add Parser.htmlToText to wrap this subtitle like we did here

    subtitle={StringUtils.lineBreaksToSpaces(Parser.htmlToText(getReportName(report)))}

App/src/pages/RoomMembersPage.tsx

Line 406 in 39f8fc4

subtitle={StringUtils.lineBreaksToSpaces(getReportName(report))}

    text: StringUtils.lineBreaksToSpaces(Parser.htmlToText(item.text)),

App/src/components/Search/SearchAutocompleteList.tsx

Lines 772 to 777 in d34357a

	const styledRecentReports = recentReportsOptions.map((item) => ({
	...item,
	pressableStyle: styles.br2,
	text: StringUtils.lineBreaksToSpaces(item.text),
	wrapperStyle: [styles.pr3, styles.pl3],
	}));

Optional: we can also add the parser here

Note: We can also add a condition that the report action name must be different from add comment before we parse it.”

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

NA

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[mkzie2]

Proposal

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

In members section, header subtitle shows html tags.

What is the root cause of that problem?

We are using the report name from getReportName to display in RoomMemberPage

App/src/pages/RoomMembersPage.tsx

Line 406 in 39f8fc4

subtitle={StringUtils.lineBreaksToSpaces(getReportName(report))}

In SearchAutocompleteList

App/src/components/Search/SearchAutocompleteList.tsx

Lines 760 to 762 in da79e09

	const additionalSections = useMemo(() => {
	return getAdditionalSections?.(searchOptions);
	}, [getAdditionalSections, searchOptions]);

App/src/libs/OptionsListUtils/index.ts

Line 924 in da79e09

result.text = reportName;

In this case, the reportName contains the html tag

We also can reproduce the issue in other place like HeaderView or SearchRouterQuery, …

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

To fix this issue totally, we should fix it in getReportName, because in this function we will return the parsed name like we did in this line

Update

App/src/libs/ReportUtils.ts

Line 5696 in da79e09

return attributes[report.reportID].reportName;

To

       return Parser.htmlToText(attributes[report.reportID].reportName);

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

We can consider to add Parser.htmlToText in ReportNameUtils.getReportName, then use it instead of ReportUtils.getReportName

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[kadiealexander]

Android <> iOS bug swap

[jliexpensify]

Not the same HTML issues here as well: #76047

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