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Explanation of Change

When viewing a legacy SendMoney transaction (pre-October 2023), the IOU report shows a duplicate "$X expense" card next to the original SendMoney card.

Root cause: Auth's SendMoney command didn't include IOUTransactionID at the top of the pay action's message until October 2023. So any SendMoney pay action created before that lives on the IOU report without that field, regardless of paymentType (Wallet, Elsewhere, PayPal, etc.).

When the user opens the transaction, the client calls OpenReport to load the transaction thread. The server lookup filters IOU actions by message->>'$.IOUTransactionID', which misses the legacy action. Auth then falls into the needsTransactionThread branch and synthesizes a brand new IOU type=create action on the settled IOU report. That fresh action renders as the duplicate card.

The App's existing type=create filter in getCombinedReportActions would normally hide that synthesized action, but it's skipped when the report has a SendMoney pay action (the isSentMoneyReport bypass at the top of the function). That's the gap this PR closes.

A matching Auth-side fix is coming in a separate PR to stop the synthesis at the source.

Fixed Issues

$ https://github.com/Expensify/Expensify/issues/635465
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Tests

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QA Steps

NoQA, the bug only reproduces on pre-Oct-2023 SendMoney data, which can't be created via the NewDot flow. Staging verification will be coordinated with Sara on her affected legacy report.

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🤖 No help site changes required.

This PR is an internal bug fix in src/libs/ReportActionsUtils.ts that filters out a phantom type=create IOU action so a duplicate "$X expense" preview card no longer renders on legacy (pre-Oct-2023) SendMoney IOU reports.

It changes rendering/display logic only — it doesn't introduce or modify any user-facing feature, workflow, setting, tab, button, or copy. The fix simply restores the already-expected behavior (no duplicate card), which is what the help site already implies for paying/sending money flows (Pay-Expenses.md, Pay-an-invoice.md). Nothing documented in docs/articles describes the duplicate-card bug or the internal report-action combining logic, so there is nothing to update.

I reviewed HELPSITE_NAMING_CONVENTIONS.md, HELP_AUTHORING_GUIDELINES.md, and TEMPLATE.md and searched the help articles for related SendMoney / pay flows — no article reflects this behavior, so no draft docs PR was created.

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