[Due for payment 2026-01-16] [$250] LHN - An empty chat with no activity yet is displayed on LHN after deleting an expense

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Version Number: v9.2.67-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from BrowserStack: Exploratory on #73471
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): htad26+ewtuyut@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Windows 10 / Chrome
App Component: Left Hand Navigation (LHN)

Action Performed:

1. Login as User A
2. Create two expenses to another User B
3. Open the expense report
4. Mention another User C > Click "Invite to chat only" on the whisper message
5. Navigate out of the expense report by clicking on the from link
6. Navigate back to the expense report > Select the expenses > Delete the expenses
7. Observe the LHN

Expected Result:

The expense report should disappear from LHN

Actual Result:

An empty chat with "No activity yet" is displayed in LHN and clicking on it leads to a not here page

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @kadiealexander

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Proposal

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

An empty chat with the message "No activity yet" is displayed in the LHN (Left Hand Navigation), and clicking on it leads to a "not here" page.

What is the root cause of that problem?

After all expenses in a report are deleted, the expense report’s reportID is removed. In theory, this report should no longer appear in the LHN. However, due to the current logic in SidebarUtils.ts, the check is bypassed, and the deleted expense report is still shown.

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

Update the logic to the following:

if (!report?.reportID && !Object.values(report?.pendingFields ?? {}).includes(CONST.RED_BRICK_ROAD_PENDING_ACTION.DELETE)) {
    continue;
}

This ensures that reports with missing reportID are skipped unless they're actively in the process of being deleted, properly handling all delete cases.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

• The code change can be:

        if (!report?.reportID && report?.pendingFields?.reportID !== CONST.RED_BRICK_ROAD_PENDING_ACTION.DELETE && report?.pendingFields?.preview !== CONST.RED_BRICK_ROAD_PENDING_ACTION.DELETE) {
            continue;
        }

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[tsa321]

🚨 Edited by proposal-police: This proposal was edited at 2025-12-11 01:40:56 UTC.

Proposal

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

LHN - An empty chat with no activity yet is displayed on LHN after all expense on other user

What is the root cause of that problem?

When all expense is deleted and the iou report is deleted then in updateReportsToDisplayInLHN:

App/src/libs/SidebarUtils.ts

Lines 314 to 316 in d34df44

	if (!report?.reportID && report?.pendingFields?.reportID !== CONST.RED_BRICK_ROAD_PENDING_ACTION.DELETE) {
	continue;
	}

we forgot to delete report in displayedReportsCopy like in:

App/src/libs/SidebarUtils.ts

Lines 336 to 338 in d34df44

	} else {
	delete displayedReportsCopy[reportID];
	}

when it is not displayed

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

we need to add delete displayedReportsCopy[reportID]; before the continue in :

App/src/libs/SidebarUtils.ts

Lines 314 to 315 in d34df44

	if (!report?.reportID && report?.pendingFields?.reportID !== CONST.RED_BRICK_ROAD_PENDING_ACTION.DELETE) {
	continue;

Or we revert the if condition to original code and add delete before the continue:

if (!report) {
       delete displayedReportsCopy[reportID];
       continue;
}

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

We should remove the continue statement because it creates confusion, and instead handle all report filtering inside shouldDisplayReportInLHN.

Inside this function, we should filter out reports where reportID is undefined and only if the pendingField does not indicate that it’s a deleted report.
(Need more investigation in the codebase what pendingField values are used when a report, IOU, or other report type is deleted.)

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