[$500] Edit private note form doesn't submit by enter key

[m-natarajan]

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Action Performed:

1. Open a report that has the private note option
2. Click on the header > Private notes
3. Select a private note to open the edit page
4. Edit the private note and press enter key

Expected Result:

The private note should be saved and go back to the previous page

Actual Result:

The input adds a new line

Workaround:

unknown

Platforms:

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

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

Version Number: 1.3.77-5
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
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

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Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @dukenv0307
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1696405348401729

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @cubuspl42 (External)

[m-natarajan]

Proposal by @dukenv0307

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

Edit private note form doesn't submit by pressing enter key

What is the root cause of that problem?

We don't add submitOnEnter prop to allow the submission of the form by pressing the enter key

App/src/pages/PrivateNotes/PrivateNotesEditPage.js

Line 142 in 447d87e

<TextInput

We should add submitOnEnter prop to the text input to make the form can be submitted by pressing enter key

App/src/pages/PrivateNotes/PrivateNotesEditPage.js

Line 142 in 447d87e

<TextInput

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

NA

Result

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[alitoshmatov]

Looks like it is intended behavior. Since notes might be multiline

[ayazalavi]

Proposal

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

Enter button is not submitting privates notes form.

What is the root cause of that problem?

Root cause of the problem is we have policy about when form should be submitted on pressing enter and when we should add a new line on pressing shift+enter. There is prop for multiline inputs that allow us to handle form like this

App/src/components/TextInput/baseTextInputPropTypes.js

Line 89 in 6d86d5a

submitOnEnter: PropTypes.bool,

it is not added

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

Add submitOnEnter={!Browser.isMobile()} prop here

App/src/pages/PrivateNotes/PrivateNotesEditPage.js

Line 142 in 6d86d5a

<TextInput

Above change will ensure that enter behavior gets updated for desktop browsers and for mobile apps only.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

N/A

[cubuspl42]

@ayazalavi Does it do any harm to add submitOnEnter for mobile browsers too? Don't we support a rare but possible scenario like an Android phone/tablet with a Bluetooth hardware keyboard + mobile Chrome?

[dukenv0307]

@cubuspl42 Actually, we use submitOnEnter={!Browser.isMobile()} in other page and this PR introduce this #27702

[cubuspl42]

I asked also on Slack

[ayazalavi]

@cubuspl42, I believe this form submission behavior is intended for platforms other than mobile browsers. Mobile browsers have different form submission behavior due to the lack of implementation for interactions between soft keyboards and HTML forms in the app. Please take a look at this issue for more information: Link to Issue #28569.

[melvin-bot]

@cubuspl42 Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?

[cubuspl42]

@m-natarajan Let's close this. This might be intended and in another thread we decided that private notes are not a priority as they are mostly an internal feature.

[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

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[puneetlath]

I agree with @cubuspl42 and I believe this page is being revamped anyways, so let's close this for now.