Rules - Rules are not applied to all merchants after saving merchant with an asterisk (*)

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Version Number: 9.3.11-17
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: N/A - new feature, doesn't exist in prod
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from BrowserStack: #80915
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): ibellicotest+2250@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Bug source: Exploratory - Significant User Experience Deterioration
Device used: Motorola MotoG60 / Android 12 (Hybrid app) - Windows 11 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Prerequisite: Account has at least one workspace.

1. Open the Expensify app.
2. Navigate to "Account" > "Expense Rules"
3. Tap on "New Rule"
4. On "If expense contains" tap on "Merchant"
5. Note that a "Type (*) to create a rule that applies to all merchants" message is visible below input.
6. Type an asterisk (*) and save.
7. On "Then apply these updates", add any category, description and any report name.
8. Save the created rule.
9. Navigate to workspace chat.
10. Create a manual expense with any merchant.
11. Note that rules are not applied.
12. Delete the just created expense.
13. Create a new manual expense with an asterisk (*) as merchant.
14. Note that rules are not applied to the expense.

Expected Result:

When user creates a rule and saves the merchant as an asterisk (*) in "If expense contains", the created rule should be applied to expenses created with any merchant.

Actual Result:

Rules are not applied to any merchant after creating a new rule and saving merchant as an asterisk (*) in "If expense contains".

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari

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[melvin-bot]

@JS00001 recently merged #80915, but they are OOO right now, so I'll auto-assign someone else.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @stephanieelliott (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.

[melvin-bot]

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

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