Room - Adding markdown to room description appears and then disappears

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.37-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected]
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
Slack conversation:

Issue found when executing PR #34150

Action Performed:

1. Create a new workspace.
2. Go to 'FAB -> Start Chat> Room
3. Enter room name
4. Add custom description with any markdown> Complete the room creating flow
5. Take a note of the description on chat history, header and edit description

Expected Result:

Description should be displayed with markdown as user enter it

Actual Result:

Adding markdown to description when create room is not applied in header and above composer ( appears in flash and than disappears)
It only applies when edit the description and add markdown. In offline mode, it works fine - added markdown in description while creating room remains on header, above the composer and on edit description page

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

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Bug6369339_1707227714073.Recording__2100.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

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

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp
CC @quinthar

[allgandalf]

Might be a BE issue:

This is what we send when we update description:

But this is what we get when we request the details:

[Gonals]

Not a blocker. This is a known issue being worked on. Closing.