Expense - Add receipt placeholder is shown for admin but not employee for paid expense

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: 1.4.69-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL: Applause-Internal team
Issue reported by:

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. [Employee] Submit a manual expense in the workspace chat.
3. [Admin] Approve and pay elsewhere the request.
4. [Employee and admin] Go to the paid transaction thread.

Expected Result:

There should be consistency in whether the add receipt placeholder should be shown in the paid transaction thread for admin and employee.

Actual Result:

Add receipt placeholder is shown for admin but not employee for paid expense.

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

Bug6467844_1714563553245.20240501_193424.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @miljakljajic (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.

[github-actions]

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[izarutskaya]

@miljakljajic 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.

[izarutskaya]

We think this issue might be related to the #collect project.

[miljakljajic]

@amyevans does this seem like BE to you, or can I put the external label on?