[HOLD for payment 2024-07-24] [$250] Room - Room mention is not copied to clipboard and editor is empty when editing room mention

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: 1.4.63-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• User has created a few rooms linked to the same workspace.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to any room from the precondition.
3. Type # and select a room.
4. Send the message.
5. Right click on the message > Copy to clipboard.
6. Paste the content.
7. Right click on the message > Edit comment.

Expected Result:

In Step 5, the room in the message will be copied.
In Step 7. the room in the editor will be preserved.

Actual Result:

In Step 5, the room in the message is not copied.
In Step 7. the room in the editor is missing.

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6453285_1713425267404.room_mention.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @JmillsExpensify

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @JmillsExpensify (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.

[melvin-bot]

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

[github-actions]

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2. Find someone who can quickly fix the issue.
3. Fix the issue yourself.

[izarutskaya]

@JmillsExpensify I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[izarutskaya]

We think this issue might be related to the #collect project.

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01c98cde11a4c25f4e

[melvin-bot]

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

[lakchote]

Not a blocker - it's an edge case that only concer room mentions, no core customer functionality is broken.

[ahmedGaber93]

Proposal

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

Room - Room mention is not copied to clipboard and editor is empty when editing room mention

What is the root cause of that problem?

we don't handle mention-report in ContextMenuActions.tsx after copy to clipboard pressed, we only handle mention-user

App/src/pages/home/report/ContextMenu/ContextMenuActions.tsx

Lines 395 to 398 in 9b839f4

	content.replace(/(<mention-user>)(.*?)(<\/mention-user>)/gi, (match, openTag, innerContent, closeTag): string => {
	const modifiedContent = Str.removeSMSDomain(innerContent) || '';
	return openTag + modifiedContent + closeTag || '';
	}),

before sending mention report text to backend we format it to be like this <mention-report>#reportName<mention-report/>
but the message html come from backend with this format <mention-report reportID="1234" /> and this format will return empty text after parsing it to text before add it to clipboard here

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

we need to handle mention-report in ContextMenuActions.tsx with the same way we used it in mention-user.

to copy the orignal message we need to catch reportID from <mention-report reportID="1234" />, and get reportName then revert it to orignal format before send <mention-report>#reportName<mention-report/>.

for that we need to add this extra replace here

.replace(/<mention-report reportID="(\d*)"\/>/gi, (match, reportID): string => {
   const report = getReport(reportID);

   return `<mention-report>${report?.reportName ?? report?.displayName}<mention-report/>`;
})

and setClipboardMessage will parse the orignal message html and get the massage text and add it to Clipboard

App/src/pages/home/report/ContextMenu/ContextMenuActions.tsx

Lines 43 to 51 in 9b839f4

	function setClipboardMessage(content: string) {
	const parser = new ExpensiMark();
	if (!Clipboard.canSetHtml()) {
	Clipboard.setString(parser.htmlToMarkdown(content));
	} else {
	const plainText = parser.htmlToText(content);
	Clipboard.setHtml(content, plainText);
	}
	}

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[lakchote]

@JmillsExpensify I'll be OOO next week until April 29th. Feel free to assign another internal engineer to review if needed.

[Santhosh-Sellavel]

Roomname is copied successfully, but the editor is still empty while editing the room mention

Screen.Recording.2024-04-22.at.1.42.30.AM.mov

[JmillsExpensify]

Interesting, let's keep this open then

[JmillsExpensify]

Looks like the related issue is now merged, so removing the hold.

[melvin-bot]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[melvin-bot]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[lakchote]

@eh2077 the related PR #40565 that we were waiting for was merged, but it did not solve the issue.

[eh2077]

@lakchote Yes, I pinged @ahmedGaber93 here #40477 (comment). I think it still makes sense to solve it together with #40477

[melvin-bot]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[eh2077]

We're fixing this together with #40477 - waiting for the PR from @ahmedGaber93

[JmillsExpensify]

Looks like we're waiting on the related App PR, though I'll go ahead and keep this issue as is because it shouldn't be too much longer.

[melvin-bot]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[melvin-bot]

Reviewing label has been removed, please complete the "BugZero Checklist".

[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.0.7-8 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• fix mentions not copy to clipboard #45233

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2024-07-24. 🎊

For reference, here are some details about the assignees on this issue:

• @Santhosh-Sellavel requires payment through NewDot Manual Requests

[melvin-bot]

BugZero Checklist: The PR fixing this issue has been merged! The following checklist (instructions) will need to be completed before the issue can be closed:

• [@lakchote] The PR that introduced the bug has been identified. Link to the PR: Fix copy and paste text inconsistent on mWeb #13396
• [@lakchote] The offending PR has been commented on, pointing out the bug it caused and why, so the author and reviewers can learn from the mistake. Link to comment: the offending PR has been created a long time ago (December 2022), it didn't cause bugs until then we were compliant with what was expected in ExpensiMark. The issue arised when we didn't comply with the format expected by the rule reportMentions. As such, it didn't introduce the bug per se.
• [@lakchote] A discussion in #expensify-bugs has been started about whether any other steps should be taken (e.g. updating the PR review checklist) in order to catch this type of bug sooner. Link to discussion: NA, same reason as above.
• [@Santhosh-Sellavel] Determine if we should create a regression test for this bug.
• [@Santhosh-Sellavel] If we decide to create a regression test for the bug, please propose the regression test steps to ensure the same bug will not reach production again.
• [@JmillsExpensify] Link the GH issue for creating/updating the regression test once above steps have been agreed upon:

[mallenexpensify]

Closing, we'll handle payment and regression tests in the other issue

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