[$500] Request Money - Search focus appear on flash and than disappear when user click change currency

[lanitochka17]

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Action Performed:

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Click FAB button
3. Select Request money
4. Click on Currency

Expected Result:

Search field should be focused so user can search for a currency

Actual Result:

Search focus appear on flash and than disappear

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• Windows / Chrome
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.3.66-1

Reproducible in staging?: Yes

Reproducible in production?: Yes

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

Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

Bug6192832_Recording__929.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Slack conversation:

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• Upwork Job ID: 1701054339692290048
• Last Price Increase: 2023-09-11

[melvin-bot]

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

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[abdel-h66]

Proposal

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

The search text input is focused briefly right after the section is opened and then loses focus.

What is the root cause of that problem?

It seems to be a strange issue, while the same currency selector works just fine on the Split Bill tab, it does lose the focus when used on the Request Money tab.

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

Delaying the focus seems to solve the issue, without introducing any regressions, by setting the prop shouldDelayFocus to true.

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/b11bddc054f54bb46d5fb5aaf05e25b8a7df7faf/src/pages/iou/IOUCurrencySelection.js#L137C2-L137C2

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

N/A

[jeet-dhandha]

Proposal

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

• IOU Currency Selection not autofocusing on the search field when the modal is opened.

What is the root cause of that problem?

• Its focusing onto list after search field so it gets out-focused instantly.

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

• Solution is to add shouldDelayFocus prop to below code.

App/src/pages/iou/IOUCurrencySelection.js

Lines 137 to 138 in b11bddc

	<OptionsSelector
	sections={sections}

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

• N/A

[sophiepintoraetz]

Able to reproduce

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01c48747135456f06b

[melvin-bot]

Current assignee @sophiepintoraetz is eligible for the External assigner, not assigning anyone new.

[melvin-bot]

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

[tienifr]

Proposal

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

Search focus appear on flash and than disappear.

There's also the issue where we cannot see any screen animation to the currency screen, the screen just snaps out when we click on the currency text, there should be an animation.

What is the root cause of that problem?

It's because in OptionsSelector, we're focusing on the input immediately after rendering, without waiting for the screen transition to finish. So the input focusing will conflict with the screen transition, causing the 2 issues.

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

This has happened many times with a lot of inputs, and the standard way to fix it is to use onEntryTransitionEnd instead of relying on timeout and shouldDelayFocus (see discussion here)

So the steps are:

1. We should expose the ref of the input of OptionsSelector so that we can access the ref inside the pages that use OptionsSelector (for example the NewChatPage)
2. In the IOUCurrencySelection screen, use the ref to focus on the input in the onEntryTransitionEnd callback of ScreenWrapper. (other usage of OptionsSelector that has the issue can be fixed similarly)

There's a known issue with onEntryTransitionEnd where sometimes it does not fire, this is already being handled separately here so I think we don't need to worry about it in this issue (if we do, we should hold the issue until that one is done, but basically we still need to do the onEntryTransitionEnd approach).

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

NA

[tienifr]

Really sorry for the inconvenience but I mentioned the wrong issue. Apologize again 🙇

[mvtglobally]

Issue not reproducible during KI retests. (First week)

[mvtglobally]

Issue not reproducible during KI retests. (Second week)

[sophiepintoraetz]

I think I'll close this one out if it's no longer reproducible.