IOU-"Enter a merchant name"error shown for amount in split bill scan.

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: 1.4.45-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Launch app
2. Tal on Workspace chat
3. Tap plus icon near compose
4. Tap split bill--- Scan
5. Using camera upload a photo
6. Tap split
7. Open the newly created split scan expense
8. Note amount field error

Expected Result:

"Enter an amount"error must be shown for amount in split bill scan.

Actual Result:

"Enter a merchant name"error shown for amount in split bill scan.

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

Bug6396619_1709183942120.az_recorder_20240229_064940.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @sonialiap (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[github-actions]

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[melvin-bot]

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

[izarutskaya]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-bills

[izarutskaya]

@danieldoglas 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.

[bernhardoj]

Proposal

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

The merchant error is shown for the amount field.

What is the root cause of that problem?

This is coming from this commit where we put merchant error for amount error.

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

Revert the commit changes by using the amount error.

[youssef-lr]

cc @kubabutkiewicz we think this might be coming from your PR #34168

[kubabutkiewicz]

taking a look 👀

[kubabutkiewicz]

#37515 PR ready @youssef-lr

[melvin-bot]

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[puneetlath]

FYI, this is likely fixed by this revert. Will have QA re-test once it is CP'd.

[puneetlath]

Looks like the revert fixed this.