[Due for payment 2025-05-27] [$250] Expense - Expense report disappears from LHN after opening transaction thread header in RHP

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Version Number: 9.1.32-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Unable to check
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: N/A
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: Exp
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+cnmnmc2@applause.expensifail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.3 / Chrome
App Component: Other

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• Log in with Expensifail account.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Create a workspace.
3. Go to workspace chat.
4. Submit two expenses to the workspace chat.
5. Click on the expense preview.
6. Click on any expense.
7. Note that the expense report is highlighted in LHN when transaction thread is opened in RHP.
8. Click on the report header.

Expected Result:

The expense report will remain highlighted in LHN after opening report header of the transaction thread.

Actual Result:

The expense report is no longer highlighted and disappears from LHN after opening report header of the transaction thread.
The transaction thread appears in LHN but it is not highlighted.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @CortneyOfstad

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

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[jasperhuangg]

NAB as this is behind a beta, cc @mountiny since this is related to the better expense view