Chat - User mention is not highlighted as mention when mentioning someone in edited comment

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: 1.4.65-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to chat.
3. Send a message.
4. Right click on the message > Edit comment.
5. Type @.
6. Select a user from the suggestion list.
7. Save the edit.

Expected Result:

The user mention in the edited message will be highlighted as mention.

Actual Result:

The user mention in the edited message is not highlighted as mention.

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

Bug6459940_1713948778458.mention_2.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @adelekennedy (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.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @madmax330 (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[github-actions]

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[izarutskaya]

@adelekennedy 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.

[izarutskaya]

We think this issue might be related to the #vip-vsb.

[izarutskaya]

Production

[mountiny]

This is technically not in production so its not a blocker but I agree this should be addressed in the PR

[mountiny]

We are going to revert this PR #35226 and @dukenv0307 can you please work on implementing this in there too as I think it should be part of the initial implementation (it looks weird when you choose the mention and its not saved that way)

[melvin-bot]

@madmax330 @adelekennedy this issue was created 2 weeks ago. Are we close to a solution? Let's make sure we're treating this as a top priority. Don't hesitate to create a thread in #expensify-open-source to align faster in real time. Thanks!

[mountiny]

I see the new Pr links this issue so I think we can close it for now