[$250] Group - When receiving invitation to group system message is displayed several times in chat

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: 9.0.70-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: Y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/5292627&group_by=cases:section_id&group_order=asc&group_id=229067
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): ibellicotest+61@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

Prerequisite: Have two accounts opened in different devices or environments.

1. Open the Expensify app.
2. Tap on the FAB and select "Start Chat"
3. Add several members to a group, that don´t have any existing chat between them.
4. Tap on "Next"
5. Tap on "Create Group"
6. Once the group is created, switch to an account of one of the invited members.
7. Open the group chat.
8. Verify that the system message about being the first time chatting with some users, is displayed only once.

Expected Result:

System message about being the first time chatting with the other members, shown when receiving invitation to a group, should be displayed only once on chat.

Actual Result:

System message about being the first time chatting with the other members, shown when receiving invitation to a group, is displayed several times. The message appears once for every member of the group.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6682528_1733189913324.Several_System.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

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12 days overdue. Walking. Toward. The. Light...

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This issue has not been updated in over 14 days. eroding to Weekly issue.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @sakluger (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.

[sakluger]

Super weird that no BugZero person was added until just now. Looking 👀

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

[shahzad67432]

I would like to work on this issue. Tomorrow I would set up the project and then would start solving this issue.

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[sakluger]

Thanks for your interest, @shahzad67432! If you figure out how to fix this one, please add your proposal following the proposal format in the contributing guidelines (linked in the comment above). For reference, here's a recent example of a proposal that was chosen: #52479 (comment).

[melvin-bot]

@sakluger, @allroundexperts Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

[sakluger]

No updates.

[shahzad67432]

I was working on some of the other works, tonight I would set up and start working on this project/specific-issue. Muhammad Shahzad Ali Software Engineer WhatsApp: +92 327-7471251 LinkedIn Github Portfolio

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[melvin-bot]

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

[sakluger]

Still no proposals.

[sakluger]

Asking about prioritization in the #expense Slack channel: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C06ML6X0W9L/p1736548930386009

[mvtglobally]

Issue not reproducible during KI retests. (First week)