[Due for payment 2026-10-30] Expense - Expense report opens after switching to table view and clicking expense preview

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Version Number: 9.5.16-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: N/A - new feature, doesn't exist in prod
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from BrowserStack: #103703
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected]
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Bug source: Exploratory - Significant User Experience Deterioration
Device used: Mac 26.5 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Go to staging.new.expensify.com
Go to workspace chat.
Create an expense.
Open the report.
Click More > Switch to table view.
Close the report.
Click on the expense preview.

Expected Result:

Transaction thread will open after switching to table view and clicking expense preview.

Actual Result:

Expense report opens after switching to table view and clicking expense preview.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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Bug7292556_1792615111213.10.mp4

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Applause Internal Information
Exported by: Svetlana Lazutkina
Bug ID: 7292556

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @daledah

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@Beamanator @mountiny @lakchote @daledah you have been assigned to this deploy blocker because you reviewed the offending PR: #103703

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Deploy Blocker Analysis

Causing PR: Reapply "Add a More menu option to switch single-expense reports between expense view and table view" (high confidence)

Recommendation: Roll forward with a one-line fix. If the fix isn't merged before the deploy is ready, revert #103703.

Root cause: When you tap the expense card in a single-expense report preview, the click handler always opens the report (MoneyRequestReportPreview/index.tsx:362-365). Before this PR, that was correct, because a single-expense report always showed its expense inline. The PR added table view, which shows the report as a table instead. It also turned off the expense-to-report redirect in table view. But it never updated this click handler, so the tap now opens the report as a table instead of opening the expense.

Fix: In MoneyRequestReportPreview/index.tsx, skip the early return when table view is on:

const {shouldUseTableViewForSingleExpense} = useSingleExpenseReportView(iouReportID);
// ...
if (transactions.length <= 1 && !shouldUseTableViewForSingleExpense) {
    openReportFromPreview();
    return;
}
// add shouldUseTableViewForSingleExpense to the useCallback deps

In table view, the tap then works like it does on a report with several expenses and opens the expense. "Pay someone" reports still open the report, because useSingleExpenseReportView already leaves them out of table view.

Investigation details

Single-expense table view exists only because of Reapply "Add a More menu option to switch single-expense reports between expense view and table view" #103703, which merged 2026-10-21. That explains why the bug shows up on staging but not in production.
No other PR in Deploy Checklist: New Expensify 2026-10-21 touched the preview click code. MoneyRequestReportPreview/index.tsx and TransactionPreview/index.tsx haven't changed since 2026-10-10.
In table view, getEffectiveTransactionThreadReportID drops the single expense, so the report shows as a table.
OneTransactionThreadRedirectHandler.tsx:89-97 no longer sends the expense back to its report in table view. With the fix, the expense will stay open.
Opening the report preview itself in table view is correct per the spec in [$175] Add a More menu option to switch single-expense reports between expense view and table view. Only the expense card behaves wrongly.
I didn't reproduce this in a browser. These findings come from reading the code.
Add a unit test that taps a single-expense preview with the saved view set to table.
No code review rule proposed. This is one missed call site, not a pattern a rule could catch.

view run

Chrome / v9.5.16-1
No Switch to table view option

bandicam.2026-10-22.16-07-53-401.1.mp4

Chrome / v9.5.16-1
No Switch to table view option

bandicam.2026-10-22.16-03-03-619.mp4

thanks! closing!

@daledah

@daledah

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.5.18-1 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

[CP Staging] Revert "Reapply "Add a More menu option to switch single-expense reports between expense view and table view"" #104661

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2026-10-30. 🎊

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