[$500] IOU - Missing Tag violation on IOU details page when tag was disabled in OD

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Version Number: 1.4.40.0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
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Issue found when executing PR #35048

Action Performed:

Precondition: set up Admin and Employee accounts and add only one tag to the workspace in OD

1. Open app
2. Sign in with Employee account
3. Click on FAB
4. Select Request money > manual
5. Write any amount and click on Continue button
6. Select the Workspace room
7. Click on "Show more"
8. Select the custom tag
9. Click on merchant and write any name
10. Click on Request button
11. Navigate to OD and sign in as Admin account
12. Disable the custom tag selected in step 8
13. Navigate to app > IOS details page
14. Refresh the page

Expected Result:

The tag violation should be displayed on the IOU details page

Actual Result:

The tag violation is missing on the IOU details page

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6377302_1707773969777.Screen_Recording_2024-02-12_at_19.35.23.mp4

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @allroundexperts (External)

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @adelekennedy (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[brandonhenry]

Proposal

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

The problem is that when a custom tag is selected for an IOU and then later disabled by an admin in Old Dot (OD), the expected tag violation does not appear on the IOU details page within the app. This leads to improper functionality due to a disabled tag being able to be used for an IOU.

What is the root cause of that problem?

The root cause seems to be a failure in the app's logic to check for tag status changes in OD after an IOU is created. There appears to be either a missing real-time update flow from OD to the app or a lack of validation check for tag status when displaying the IOU details.

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

• Implement a mechanism to sync policy updates from OD in real-time or via periodic checks to ensure the app has the latest policy settings.
• Introduce a validation check in the IOU details page logic to verify the status of the tag and display a violation if the tag has been disabled after the IOU was created.
• Update the state management within the app to reflect any changes in tag status and trigger UI updates accordingly.
• Perform thorough testing on all platforms to validate that tag violations appear as expected when tags are disabled post-IOU creation.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

An alternative could be to prevent the disabling of tags in OD if they have been used in any outstanding IOUs, thus avoiding this issue altogether.

[melvin-bot]

@allroundexperts, @adelekennedy Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[allroundexperts]

Thanks for your proposal @brandonhenry. Your proposal seems too generic and does not provide a clear cut solution.

[allroundexperts]

Still looking for more proposals.

[brandonhenry]

@allroundexperts i did some more digging on this one and I wonder if this issue is well defined? The video shows interaction with the OD workspace and the ND workspace. Are these supposed to be connected? I am currently having issues with there seemingly being two types of workspaces specific to each?

Maybe this one is a bit beyond me for my first contributor assist but I am curious why I am having the user experience I am.

Reproduceable steps:

1. Login to admin account
2. Go to OD
3. Settings -> New Workspace
4. Go to ND
5. Notice you cannot see the workspace that was just made in OD

If you create the workspace in ND first, you cannot see that workspace inside of OD. In addition, I do not see any way to create a non-free workspace inside of ND, so i am unable to work with tags inside of the ND..? Not sure if this is the way its suppose to be

[brandonhenry]

Going to still do some digging but was finding it hard to find the particularly screen shown in the original post without being able to access a paid workspace inside of ND..

[brandonhenry]

@allroundexperts managed to find the hopeful culprit.

Updated Proposal

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

The problem is that when a custom tag is selected for an IOU and then later disabled by an admin in Old Dot (OD), the expected tag violation does not appear on the IOU details page within the app. This leads to improper functionality due to a disabled tag being able to be used for an IOU.

What is the root cause of that problem?

The root cause seems to be a failure in the app's logic to check for tag status changes in OD after an IOU is created. There appears to be either a missing real-time update flow from OD to the app or a lack of validation check for tag status when displaying the IOU details.

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

// Inside the MoneyRequestView component

In order for the error to properly show when a tag is disabled / not there, we need to update the inline error property for the MenuItem to check if the tag is available and enabled like so:

const isTagDisabled = policyTags?.[transactionTag]?.isEnabled === false;

// When rendering the tag field
{shouldShowTag && (
    <OfflineWithFeedback pendingAction={getPendingFieldAction('tag')}>
        <MenuItemWithTopDescription
            description={policyTag?.name ?? translate('common.tag')}
            title={PolicyUtils.getCleanedTagName(transactionTag ?? '')}
            interactive={canEdit}
            shouldShowRightIcon={canEdit}
            titleStyle={styles.flex1}
            onPress={() =>
                Navigation.navigate(ROUTES.MONEY_REQUEST_STEP_TAG.getRoute(CONST.IOU.ACTION.EDIT, CONST.IOU.TYPE.REQUEST, transaction?.transactionID ?? '', report.reportID))
            }
            brickRoadIndicator={isTagDisabled ? CONST.BRICK_ROAD_INDICATOR_STATUS.ERROR : undefined}
            error={isTagDisabled ? translate('common.error.tagDisabled') : ''}
        />
    </OfflineWithFeedback>
)}

[allroundexperts]

@brandonhenry Thanks for the updated proposal. Your proposal is making sense now. However, I am unsure what exactly is the expected behaviour of this issue. Pulling in an internal engineer for further discussion 🎀 👀 🎀

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @neil-marcellini, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

[allroundexperts]

@neil-marcellini Shouldn't the backend be attaching a violation to the transaction object in the case where a used tag gets disabled in admin? If so, then this should be handled on the backend.

[cead22]

I think we should put a hold on this issue, since this is a known issue that we need to holistic solution for, because updating tags is only one case where the violations displayed in the UI might be outdated.

The tag change on old dot should push the updated tag lists to the relevant new dot clients, but that alone doesn't trigger the re-render of the money request view (or money request preview, or report preview) to display violations

[neil-marcellini]

Ok sounds good @cead22. What issue should we hold this on?

[cead22]

We don't have one yet. Should we make this one internal, and I'll take it over, or do you think it's better that I create a new one?

[cead22]

Actually, let's close this in favor of #34541 since it's a dupe