Gate Hold on receipt scan state to prevent unexpected hold error on scanning expenses

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Explanation of Change

When a scan expense is opened while its receipt is still being SmartScanned, manually entering the merchant and amount re-enables the Hold action. Tapping Hold then fires HOLD_MONEY_REQUEST against a transaction whose receipt is still scanning server-side; the backend rejects it, and putOnHold's failure data surfaces the generic "Unexpected error holding this expense. Please try again later." message.

The root cause is that the Hold gate in canHoldUnholdReportAction (src/libs/ReportUtils.ts) only checked !isScanning(transaction). isScanning() is a UI-state helper that intentionally returns false once the user manually enters a valid amount (hasValidModifiedAmount) or the transaction is no longer partial — even though SmartScan is still running in the background. Following the repro order (merchant → amount → category), isScanning() flips to false and Hold is offered prematurely.

This PR gates Hold on the real receipt-scan state by adding !isReceiptBeingScanned(transaction) (which reflects the actual receipt.state of SCANNING/SCANREADY) alongside the existing !isScanning(transaction) check. Since canHoldRequest is the single source every Hold entry point reads from (header, transaction context menu, bulk actions), this hides Hold everywhere until the scan completes, so the failing API call — and therefore the unexpected error — can no longer happen. Once the scan finishes, Hold becomes available again.

isReceiptBeingScanned was already imported in ReportUtils.ts, so no import change was needed. This matches established precedent — ReportSecondaryActionUtils.ts already gates scan-dependent actions on isReceiptBeingScanned rather than isScanning.

Note: The complementary backend change (so the scan-complete update arrives via Pusher and Hold reappears without reopening the expense) is being handled internally by @NikkiWines, per this comment. The front-end change here does not depend on it.

Fixed Issues

$ #93179
PROPOSAL: #93179 (comment)

Tests

1. Open a workspace chat and create a scan expense with a camera image.
2. Open the expense and, while the receipt is still scanning ("Waiting for you to mark this as done"), enter the merchant, amount, and category (in that order).
3. Long-press the expense (or open the More menu) and verify the Hold option is not shown while the receipt is still being scanned.
4. Wait for SmartScan to complete and verify Hold becomes available again and works without error.

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

While offline, create/open a scan expense whose receipt has not finished scanning, enter merchant/amount/category, and verify the Hold option stays hidden (the queued hold would otherwise fail when it reaches the server mid-scan).

QA Steps

Same as Tests.

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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Preserve scan gating after manual edits

In the repro this is meant to block, entering merchant or amount calls the update-money-request path, which runs getUpdatedTransaction() and sets receipt.state to OPEN whenever a manual edit stops SmartScan locally (src/libs/TransactionUtils/index.ts:783-790). By the time this gate is evaluated, isReceiptBeingScanned(transaction) is therefore already false, so Hold can still be offered and HOLD_MONEY_REQUEST can still be sent while the backend scan is running. Please gate on scan state that is not optimistically cleared by those manual field edits, or keep the receipt scan state intact until the backend confirms it is safe.

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[MelvinBot]

🤖 huult — I reviewed Codex's comment against the code at the reviewed commit (b803874). Codex is correct: the added !isReceiptBeingScanned(transaction) check does not change behavior in the repro this PR targets.

Why the fix is ineffective here

Entering merchant or amount goes through the update-money-request path, which optimistically flips receipt.state to OPEN and writes it back to the same transaction the Hold gate reads:

1. An amount or merchant edit sets shouldStopSmartscan = true — TransactionUtils/index.ts:618-630.
2. getUpdatedTransaction() then sets updatedTransaction.receipt.state = OPEN — TransactionUtils/index.ts:782-791.
3. That object (including the OPEN receipt) is MERGEd onto the TRANSACTION Onyx key via optimisticData — UpdateMoneyRequest.ts:1547-1556.
4. isReceiptBeingScanned() returns true only for SCAN_READY/SCANNING, so it's false once the state is OPEN — TransactionUtils/index.ts:1440-1441.

So by the time the gate at ReportUtils.ts:5342 runs, both isScanning() and isReceiptBeingScanned() are already false, and Hold is offered exactly as before. In fact isScanning() already short-circuits on !isReceiptBeingScanned() as its first check (1426-1438), so the new conjunct is redundant for this flow — it reads the same already-flipped OPEN state.

Implication

A frontend-only gate can't reliably detect an in-flight backend scan after a manual edit, because the client optimistically clears receipt.state to OPEN the moment the user edits merchant/amount. There's no local field that distinguishes "scan finished" from "scan still running, but user edited." That lines up with the PR note that the real fix is the backend change NikkiWines is handling (scan-complete arriving via Pusher) — the client needs a scan signal that survives the optimistic OPEN flip, or the backend should reject/short-circuit the hold while scanning.

I did not push any change. If you'd like me to attempt a revised approach, let me know the direction (e.g. gate on a non-optimistic signal) and I can take a pass — though this may genuinely require the backend-side fix rather than a frontend gate.

[huult]

@MelvinBot Could we introduce a new flag (e.g. isScanned) on the transaction to track the actual SmartScan completion state?

The app can use this flag when evaluating canHoldRequest:

• Non-scan requests: isScanned defaults to true since there is no SmartScan flow involved.
• transaction.isScanned === false: block Hold while the backend SmartScan is still running.
• transaction.isScanned === true: allow Hold after SmartScan completes.
• For legacy transactions without this flag, fallback to checking receipt.state (SCAN_COMPLETE / SCAN_FAILED).

The backend should:

• Set isScanned: true on the transaction once SmartScan completes (either success or failure).
• Reject HOLD_MONEY_REQUEST server-side when isScanned === false to ensure we don't bypass this check.

This would avoid relying on receipt.state, which can be optimistically changed to OPEN after manual edits.

[huult]

@MelvinBot Could you please review Codex's comment?

[MelvinBot]

Good idea to think about a more authoritative signal, but I'd hold off on the isScanned flag for this PR. Two reasons:

1. The premise doesn't hold for this bug's repro. Entering merchant/amount on a scan expense does not flip receipt.state to OPEN — the edit only writes modifiedMerchant/modifiedAmount (UpdateMoneyRequest.ts), leaving receipt.state at SCANNING/SCANREADY. That's exactly why gating on isReceiptBeingScanned works here — isScanning() returns false once a valid amount is entered, but receipt.state is untouched, so the new check still hides Hold. receipt.state only goes to OPEN when the receipt is replaced (Receipt.ts:201), which legitimately kicks off a new scan anyway.

2. The isScanned flag is mostly a backend change, outside this repo. The two load-bearing parts of your proposal — the backend setting isScanned: true on SmartScan completion, and rejecting HOLD_MONEY_REQUEST server-side when isScanned === false — live in the backend, which I can't modify from the App repo. That work needs an internal engineer, and it overlaps with the complementary backend change NikkiWines is already handling (per this comment). Worth coordinating there rather than designing a parallel field.

Suggestion: keep this PR's front-end isReceiptBeingScanned gate as the immediate fix (it resolves the reported repro), and raise the isScanned field as a backend follow-up in the issue thread with NikkiWines so the server-side enforcement and the new transaction field are designed together. If the App side later needs to consume an isScanned flag with a receipt.state fallback for legacy transactions, that part is straightforward to add once the backend contract exists.

Happy to draft the App-side consumption (isScanned with receipt.state fallback) if/when the backend field is confirmed — just @MelvinBot me.

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@MelvinBot please complete author checklsit

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@MelvinBot I completed the PR Reviewer Checklist. Could you please update it on your side? Is there anything else I need to do?

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@MelvinBot we can remove the comments within Tests and QA Steps section as the use case is related to offline scenario. Also, please tick all the PR Author checklist items

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🤖 Done, huult:

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[huult]

LGTM.

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I left the two "Verify that no errors appear in the JS console" checkboxes (under Tests/QA) unticked since those are test-step items rather than PR Author Checklist items — let me know if you'd like those ticked too.

@MelvinBot yes please

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[MelvinBot]

🤖 I reviewed this PR against the help site files under docs/articles and no documentation changes are required.

Why: This is a narrow bug fix that hides the Hold action transiently while an expense's receipt is still being SmartScanned, preventing a HOLD_MONEY_REQUEST from firing against a still-scanning transaction (which produced the "Unexpected error holding this expense" message).

The only help article that documents Hold availability is Expense and Report Actions. It describes when Hold appears strictly in terms of report status (Draft, Outstanding, or Approved) and role (Submitter, Approver, Workspace Admin) — it makes no claim about receipt-scan state. This PR doesn't change any of that documented behavior; it only suppresses a transient/erroring state until SmartScan completes, after which Hold becomes available again as documented. Documenting "Hold is hidden while a receipt is scanning" would be over-specifying internal edge-case behavior that the help site intentionally keeps at a high level.

No draft help site PR was created.