[Due for payment 2025-12-31] Expense - Irrelevant result appears when typing name in Attendee field

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.2.85-0
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 BrowserStack: #77995
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): osidjnodjosdjosid@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Bug source: Pull Request QA execution
Device used: Mac 26.1 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Preconditon:

• Rules are enabled.
• Attendee tracking is enabled in Rules.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to workspace chat.
3. Click + > Create expense > Manual.
4. Enter amount > Next.
5. On confirm page, click Attendee field.
6. Enter name (not email) and select it.
7. Enter another name (not email) and select it.
8. Click Save.
9. Create the expense.
10. Click + > Create expense > Manual.
11. Enter amount > Next.
12. On confirm page, click Attendee field.
13. Enter any name that does not match the name in Step 6 and 7.

Expected Result:

Irrelevant result will be filtered out when typing name in Attendee field.

Actual Result:

Irrelevant result appears when typing name in Attendee field.
Two results are highlighted at the same time.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug7034539_1766250096159.28.mp4

Bug7034539_1766250996327.028.111.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @sonialiap

[melvin-bot]

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

[github-actions]

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3. Fix the issue yourself.

[melvin-bot]

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

[m-natarajan]

Can't repro, entering name only doesn't result anything, Windows 11 / Chrome, iPhone 13/iOS 26.1 v9.2.85-2, v9.2.85-2

video_2025-12-22_16-59-25.mp4

attendee.mp4

[pecanoro]

Reverting the PR worked, closing!