An expense requires approval from the second approver again if the final approver approves and subsequently unapproves the report.

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Version Number: 9.0.77-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?:
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @Julesssss
Slack conversation (hyperlinked to channel name): expense

Action Performed:

1. Create three new users, user A, B & C.
2. As user A, create a workspace.
3. Enable delayed submission, and set the frequency to Manual.
4. Add user B and C to the workspace.
5. Go to the workflows, and create a new workflow where when user B submits an expense, it requires approval from user C and user A.
6. As user B, submit an expense to the workspace.
7. As user C, approve the expense.
8. As user A, approve the expense.
9. As user A, Un-approve the expense.

Expected Result:

The expense requires approval from user A only

Actual Result:

The expense requires the approval of both user C and user A again.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

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

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Recording.855.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @Julesssss

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @mallenexpensify (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.

[mallenexpensify]

Was able to reproduce, see user c1 in screenshot below.

@Julesssss does this need to be Internal?

[Tony-MK]

@Julesssss does this need to be Internal?

We do need a backend fix but also need a front-end fix to build the next steps optimistically.

[melvin-bot]

@mallenexpensify Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[melvin-bot]

@mallenexpensify Still overdue 6 days?! Let's take care of this!

[mallenexpensify]

@Julesssss assigned to you for 👀 once back. Please confirm if this needs to be internal and that

we also need a front-end fix to build the next steps optimistically.

[melvin-bot]

@Julesssss @mallenexpensify this issue was created 2 weeks ago. Are we close to a solution? Let's make sure we're treating this as a top priority. Don't hesitate to create a thread in #expensify-open-source to align faster in real time. Thanks!

[Julesssss]

We'll be solving the original bug here before moving forward here.

[melvin-bot]

@Julesssss, @mallenexpensify Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[mallenexpensify]

Bumped to weekly since PR is being worked on #52297 (comment)

[Julesssss]

I bumped the PR, as it has been stale for a while.

[Julesssss]

I bumped the PR again, asking how I can help