[Due for payment 2025-09-02] [Due for payment 2025-08-29] Expense - Wrong error message when splitting distance expense with disabled distance rate

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Version Number: 9.1.97-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #68323
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): sjdionjsoisjoi@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Create a new workspace
3. Go to workspace settings > More features
4. Enable Distance rates
5. Go to Distance rates
6. Add a distance rate
7. Go to workspace chat
8. Submit a distance expense
9. Go to workspace settings > Distance rates
10. Disable (do not delete it) the rate used in the distance expense from Step 9
11. Go back to workspace chat
12. Open the expense report
13. Click More > Split
14. Click Save

Expected Result:

"Rate not valid" error will show up

Actual Result:

"Unexpected error editing this expense. Please try again later." error shows up

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Select the officially supported platforms where the issue was reproduced:

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

Platforms Tested:

On which of our officially supported platforms was this issue tested:

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

Screenshots/Videos

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Bug6921359_1755632513267.error.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @dylanexpensify

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

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[chuckdries]

This is almost certainly also related to #68323