[$500] Web - Task - Can't find user email results when assigning tasks in group chat

[kbecciv]

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Action Performed:

1. Create a group chat with several participants (new users)
2. Click "+" button and choose Assign task
3. Input title -> click "Next" -> Click "Assignee"
4. Enter the email of the member in the group

Expected Result:

User email search results can be found

Actual Result:

No results found

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.3.66.3
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

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Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @thuyle04
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1693917317156359

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[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @bfitzexpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @Christinadobrzyn (External), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/8582 for more details.

[melvin-bot]

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

[kbecciv]

Could be a duplicate #26072, please check and confirm. Thank you

[bfitzexpensify]

Checking in with the engineers working on #26072 to check if the proposal there will also solve for this

[bfitzexpensify]

Suggestion in #26072 (comment) is that this won't be solved by that issue. Keeping this external

[namhihi237]

I think it's intention #25806

[Christinadobrzyn]

Thanks for the input @namhihi237 - it looks like #25806 issue involves not being able to assign a task to a new user. Can you tell me why you think that's the same as this issue, I might be missing something

[namhihi237]

I think we're temporarily disabling assigning to new accounts to resolve a blocker. I think @thienlnam will have a clearer context.

[thienlnam]

@namhihi237 is correct, this is intentional for right now. You can't assign someone you don't have an existing chat with right now. We'll update this handling in https://github.com/Expensify/Expensify/issues/311912