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Explanation of Change

Reduces unnecessary Onyx re-renders in the Create Expense flow (ManualOpenCreateExpense span) by trimming heavy subscriptions:

  1. Policy collection selector (iouRequestPolicyCollectionSelector in Policy.ts): Filters ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.POLICY to only the ~15 fields needed by IOURequestStartPage consumers. With useOnyx deep-equal memoization, this prevents re-renders when unrelated policy fields change (accounting settings, tax rates, report fields, etc.).

  2. Derive selectedTab directly: Replaced useState(lastSelectedTab) + syncing useEffect with a simple const selectedTab = lastSelectedTab. Tab writes go through Tab.setSelectedTab() directly to Onyx, eliminating one render cycle on mount and tab switch.

  3. NVP selector for SCAN_TEST_TOOLTIP: Replaced full NVP_DISMISSED_PRODUCT_TRAINING subscription with a boolean selector that extracts just the SCAN_TEST_TOOLTIP field. Prevents re-renders when other product training dismissals change.

  4. Remove reportDrafts collection subscription from IOURequestStepConfirmation: getReportOrDraftReport() already falls back to the module-level allReportsDraft variable when no param is passed. All other callers of getReportOption already omit this parameter.

  5. Minor cleanups: Extract magic number 2 to PER_DIEM_TAB_INDEX constant. Remove stale currentDate = '' default (now uses ?? instead of ||).

PErformance gain: Reduced about ~20ms on localtesting the span

Fixed Issues

$ #84789

Tests

  1. Open the app, click the FAB (+) button, select "Create expense"
  2. Verify the Manual tab loads correctly, enter an amount
  3. Switch to Scan tab, verify camera/upload UI appears
  4. Switch to Per Diem tab (if available), verify it loads
  5. Switch to Time tab (if available), verify it loads
  6. Create a full expense through the Manual flow and verify it submits
  7. Create a full expense through the Scan flow and verify it submits

Offline tests

  1. Go offline, open Create Expense from FAB
  2. Verify Manual tab loads and amount can be entered
  3. Switch tabs, verify they load correctly
  4. Submit an expense while offline
  5. Go back online, verify the expense syncs

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Thanks for the help @BartekObudzinski let me know when this is ready for review! 🙇

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@@ -219,7 +222,7 @@ function IOURequestStartPage({

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❌ CONSISTENCY-3 (docs)

This Tab.setSelectedTab(CONST.TAB.IOU_REQUEST_TYPE, newIouType) call is redundant. OnyxTabNavigator already calls Tab.setSelectedTab(id, newSelectedTab) in its screenListeners.state handler (OnyxTabNavigator.tsx line 190) before invoking the onTabSelected callback (line 192). This means by the time onTabSelected runs, the Onyx key is already updated. The duplicate call triggers a second Onyx.merge for the same key with the same value on every tab switch, which is unnecessary work.

Remove the Tab.setSelectedTab call from onTabSelected since OnyxTabNavigator already handles persisting the selected tab:

const onTabSelected = useCallback(
    (newIouType: IOURequestType) => {
        resetIOUTypeIfChanged(newIouType);
    },
    [resetIOUTypeIfChanged],
);

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Good catch — removed the duplicate Tab.setSelectedTab call. OnyxTabNavigator already persists the selected tab before invoking onTabSelected, so our call was redundant.

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: getReportOption(participant, privateIsArchived, policy, currentUserPersonalDetails.accountID, personalDetails, reportAttributesDerived);
}) ?? [],
[transaction?.participants, iouType, personalDetails, reportAttributesDerived, reportDrafts, privateIsArchivedMap, policy, currentUserPersonalDetails.accountID],
[transaction?.participants, iouType, personalDetails, reportAttributesDerived, privateIsArchivedMap, policy, currentUserPersonalDetails.accountID],

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P2 Badge Recompute participants when report drafts change

Dropping reportDrafts from this memoized participants computation means updates to ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT_DRAFT no longer invalidate the list, even though getReportOption() resolves destination data through draft reports. In flows where a destination is initially a draft report (optimistic) and then gets updated/promoted while the confirmation page is open, the row can stay stale (including draft-derived display/disabled state) until some unrelated dependency changes.

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This removal was intentional (originally done by @OlimpiaZurek in the first draft). getReportOption calls getReportOrDraftReport internally, which falls back to the module-level allReportsDraft variable (populated via Onyx.connect in ReportUtils.ts) when the param is not passed. All other callers of getReportOption across the codebase already omit this parameter and rely on the same fallback.

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This removal was intentional (originally done by @OlimpiaZurek in the first draft). getReportOption calls getReportOrDraftReport internally, which falls back to the module-level allReportsDraft variable (populated via Onyx.connect in ReportUtils.ts) when the param is not passed. All other callers of getReportOption across the codebase already omit this parameter and rely on the same fallback.

@BartekObudzinski That goes against our efforts to remove impure functions. We should not rely on the module level onyx.connect in this case. Can you please raise a revert as we will eventually remove the module level subscription

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These changes LGTM. @Julesssss all yours.

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No product review required on this one.

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@Julesssss Julesssss merged commit 02a4f0a into Expensify:main Mar 10, 2026
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