[HOLD for payment 2024-10-29] [$250] LHN - Chat that contains only task disappears from LHN

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Version Number: 9.0.46-3
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+bg@applause.expensifail.com
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Login with expensifail account
2. Start a new chat
3. Create a task on the newly created chat
4. Go to another chat

Expected Result:

Chat that contains only task does not disappear from from LHN

Actual Result:

Chat that contains only task disappears from LHN when navigating to other chats

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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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @VictoriaExpensify

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[mkzie2]

Proposal

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

• LHN - Chat that contains only task disappears from LHN

What is the root cause of that problem?

• When we start a new chat, the notificaitonPreference is hidden. When creating a task, we don't set the notificationPreference to always:

App/src/libs/actions/Task.ts

Lines 220 to 233 in 8db6347

	// Now that we've created the optimistic chat report and chat reportActions, we can update the parent report data
	// FOR PARENT REPORT (SHARE DESTINATION)
	optimisticData.push(
	{
	onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
	key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT}${parentReportID}`,
	value: optimisticParentReport,
	},
	{
	onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
	key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT_ACTIONS}${parentReportID}`,
	value: {[optimisticAddCommentReport.reportAction.reportActionID]: optimisticAddCommentReport.reportAction as OnyxTypes.ReportAction},
	},
	);

like we did when creating a new comment:

App/src/libs/actions/Report.ts

Lines 492 to 498 in 8db6347

	const shouldUpdateNotificationPrefernece = !isEmptyObject(report) && ReportUtils.getReportNotificationPreference(report) === CONST.REPORT.NOTIFICATION_PREFERENCE.HIDDEN;
	if (shouldUpdateNotificationPrefernece) {
	optimisticReport.participants = {
	[currentUserAccountID]: {notificationPreference: CONST.REPORT.NOTIFICATION_PREFERENCE.ALWAYS},
	};
	}

so the chat disappears from LHN:

App/src/libs/SidebarUtils.ts

Line 141 in 8db6347

if (isHidden && !shouldOverrideHidden) {

until the API CreateTask is called succesfully.

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

Add a logic to update notificationPreference to place:

    const shouldUpdateNotificationPrefernece = !isEmptyObject(parentReport) && ReportUtils.getReportNotificationPreference(parent) === CONST.REPORT.NOTIFICATION_PREFERENCE.HIDDEN;

    if (shouldUpdateNotificationPrefernece) {
        optimisticData.push({
            onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
            key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT}${parentReportID}`,
            value: {
                participants: {
                    [currentUserAccountID]: {notificationPreference: CONST.REPORT.NOTIFICATION_PREFERENCE.ALWAYS},
                },
                notificationPreference: CONST.REPORT.NOTIFICATION_PREFERENCE.ALWAYS // Optional
            },
        });
    }

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[Nodebrute]

I am unable to reproduce this on the latest main. @mkzie2, could you please list all the steps to reproduce this issue?

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[VictoriaExpensify]

Agree this is an isue and we should fix it

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

[hoangzinh]

@mkzie2's RCA and solution looks good to me

Link to proposal #50478 (comment)

🎀👀🎀 C+ reviewed

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

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Thanks for the review @hoangzinh, assigning @mkzie2 🚀

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The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.0.51-4 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• fix: chat with only task is hidden from lhn #50844

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