Expense - Approve button appears even when Prevent Self Approval is enabled

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Version Number: 9.1.25-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #58660
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): biruknew45+ggk78j@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Web, mweb
App Component: Chat Report View

Action Performed:

Precondition -
Create a workspace and add an approver and submitter
Configure the workflow such that the submitter submits to the Approver and forwards to Submitter
Enable Prevent self-approvals on the workspace
Enable delayed submission

1. Go to https://staging.new.expensify.com
2. As an admin, add the submitter user as the category approver for a category. (any category)
3. As the submitter, create an expense and categorize it with that same category.
4. As the submitter, go to details and click on the submit button
5. Click on approve button

Expected Result:

The approve button shouldn't appear or should be disabled.

Actual Result:

Approve button appears even when Prevent Self Approval is enabled. and it causes an error when clicked.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6796958_1744190145093.bandicam_2025-04-09_11-57-20-340.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @lydiabarclay

[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @lydiabarclay (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.

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[jnowakow]

I'm from SWM and I'll work on it