Triggered auto assignment to @johncschuster (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.

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

Potentially a new feature - asking in thread.

Hi, I'm Eugene from Callstack - expert contributor group. I’d like to work on this issue.

Should I create just a PR here without the proposal?

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In this case, should we allow the entry of a plus sign, calculate the combinations result, and send the computed result to the API?

@pasyukevich
If required I can assign a random engineer !

@ZhenjaHorbach

Yes, I think this would be great - we need some discussion here for the expected behavior

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Triggered auto assignment to @marcaaron, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

User able to enter minus, plus or Brackets

@twisterdotcom is there more context on why a user would use these characters when editing an expense? I think some more information on what we're trying to achieve might help contributors understand what we're trying to do here and help move this along. Thanks!

Maybe we can try to track down someone who has more familiarity with negative expenses to help investigate this. I'll be going on leave sometime in the next few weeks and probably won't get to this before then.

@johncschuster @pasyukevich @marcaaron @ZhenjaHorbach this issue was created 2 weeks ago. Are we close to approving a proposal? If not, what's blocking us from getting this issue assigned? Don't hesitate to create a thread in #expensify-open-source to align faster in real time. Thanks!

more context on why a user would use these characters when editing an expense?

Sure, I see three fairly likely use cases:

1. A user is tracking personal expenses and chooses to invert everything SmartScan does to make expenses negative offsetting a positive single expenses total they create. (Uncommon, but it does happen on oldDot).
2. Similar but a business user will do the same for pre-approval cash amount, and add SmartScanned expenses to offset that. (Again uncommon, but more common than 1)
3. Like me, users may be indebted to the company a small amount, and this is how they are able to pay it back (by reneging on future expense reimbursements).
4. SmartScan scans the amount wrong. (The most common)

@johncschuster, @pasyukevich, @marcaaron, @ZhenjaHorbach Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

Not overdue
Maybe we should assign another random engineer following this comment

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

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Triggered auto assignment to @nkuoch, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

Nor overdue
@nkuoch
Could you please help with this comment ?

Yes, let's allow typing the minus sign. Let me know if sending it to the api doesn't act as expected and I can look into it.

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸