Hidden is shown in the email notification received for commenting in the expense report

[m-natarajan]

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Version Number: 9.0.93-3
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?:
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @jamesdeanexpensify
Slack conversation (hyperlinked to channel name): expense

Action Performed:

1. Submit a expense report to an approver ( approver is not the admin of the workspace)
2. As a submitter open the expense details and leave a comment by mentioning the approver (@ approver)
3. Wait for the email to be triggered

Expected Result:

Email should be received with the user name and not for the submitter who left the comment

Actual Result:

"hidden" appears in the place of approver's name and email received by the submitter

Workaround:

unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

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

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @Christinadobrzyn (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.

[Christinadobrzyn]

I can't reproduce this, still testing

[MelvinBot]

This has been labelled "Needs Reproduction". Follow the steps here: https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/16989

[Christinadobrzyn]

I can't reproduce this - I've tried on the desktop app and safari/chrome. I updated the approval workflow so that it had multiple approvers and nothing is triggering a chat message to be sent along with a report.

[dylanexpensify]

Nice, if can't repro @Christinadobrzyn I think we can close