[ON HOLD] [MEDIUM] [Splits] [$250] Split bill - Split amount is lost when adding receipt and splitting bill

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: v1.4.45-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): natnael.expensify+3@gmail.com
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Click on 'FAB' > Request money > enter amount
2. Select a user > Add receipt > return to where you can select a user
3. Click on 'Split' button
4. Click on 'Add to split' > click on 'Split'

Expected Result:

Entered amount shouldn't be lost, and request shouldn't change to scan request

Actual Result:

Entered amount is lost and request is changed to a scan request

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6396788_1709201886587.Screen_Recording_2024-02-29_at_10.49.14_in_the_morning.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @youssef-lr

Issue Owner

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[melvin-bot]

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

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[izarutskaya]

@grgia I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[grgia]

I believe this is happening with manual requests too

[rojiphil]

Proposal

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

When Split bill is used with a receipt, the split amount is lost in the split bill details page.

What is the root cause of that problem?

Here, when we split the bill with a receipt, it was thought to be done via the scan tab where we do not enter the amount. In such a case, the flow starts with a split bill request and is completed later. However, as done in this issue, it is also possible to split the bill via Manual request with an added receipt. Currently, this goes through the default startSplit flow. This is the root cause.

I do not think this is a regression.

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

We can support split bill request for manual request type with receipt by making use of the splitBill here and splitBillAndOpenReport here.

1. First, we need to avoid going through the startSplitBill flow by additionally checking for a valid amount like this here

        if (iouType === CONST.IOU.TYPE.SPLIT && receiptFile && transaction.amount === 0) {
   

2. Now, the flow with either go through splitBill here or splitBillAndOpenReport here. Here, let us pass the receiptFile into splitBill and splitBillAndOpenReport as it is done here.

3. Inside the createSplitsAndOnyxData here, generate the receiptObject like it is done here and add this to the transaction here and iou report action here. Further, we need to add the receipt to one-to-one iou report actions and transactions too here. Also, failure data can consider receipt error using getReceiptError like here

However, this would also need BE support as SplitBill API need to send back receipt in response.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

Alternatively, if we want to do this via startSplitBill flow, we can include amount in the flow. Here, I think even BE needs to ensure that transaction contains the amount. Happy to explore more on this if we want to go through this approach.