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Explanation of Change

Help site updates for the invoice field behavior changed in #100850.

That PR made two things visible to users that the help site does not document, and the help site had no article covering invoice fields at all:

  1. Invoice field names now collide with report field names. The uniqueness check no longer scopes by target, so a report field can't reuse an existing invoice field name (and the reverse). Users hit a "name already exists" error with no field of that name visible on the page they're on, which is confusing without documentation.
  2. Invoice fields are counted and copied on the Copy settings flow. The Invoices row on the Select settings page now shows the invoice field count, and the Invoices row appears even when the workspace has no invoicing details.

The third fix in that PR (hiding the Fix badge on paid invoices in the LHN) restores intended behavior and needs no help site change.

Changes in this PR:

  • New article docs/articles/new-expensify/workspaces/Add-Invoice-Fields.md — covers who can add invoice fields, enabling Invoices and Invoice fields, adding a field, the shared name rule between invoice fields and report fields, editing and deleting a field, and how invoice fields carry over when settings are copied.
  • Enable-Report-Fields.md — adds a note that report field names must be unique across the workspace and share the same set of names as invoice fields.
  • Copy-Workspace-Settings.md — adds an FAQ confirming invoice fields are copied when Invoices is selected, and that the row shows the count.
  • Duplicate-Workspace.md — clarifies that invoice fields do carry over, alongside the existing FAQ stating invoicing details do not.

On the error copy: deploy blocker #100876 reports that the duplicate-name error names the field type of the page you're on rather than the field that actually holds the name. These articles therefore describe the error generically ("an error telling you a field with that name already exists") and tell users to check both their invoice fields and their report fields. That stays accurate whichever way the copy lands, so the articles won't need a follow-up edit when that blocker is fixed.

All other UI labels were verified against a live Control workspace on web before writing: More features > Earn > Invoices; the workspace Invoices page and its Invoice fields toggle; the Add field button with Name and Type; and the 1 invoice fields text on the Select settings page. The articles follow docs/HELPSITE_NAMING_CONVENTIONS.md, docs/HELP_AUTHORING_GUIDELINES.md, and docs/TEMPLATE.md.

Fixed Issues

$ #100850
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Documentation-only change — no product code is touched. Reviewing means confirming the articles match current behavior:

  1. Read docs/articles/new-expensify/workspaces/Add-Invoice-Fields.md against a Control workspace with Invoices enabled and confirm every label and navigation path matches the live UI.
  2. Confirm the shared name rule described in the article and in Enable-Report-Fields.md matches the behavior shipped in [CP Staging] Fix invoice field visibility, count, and name collision issues #100850.
  3. Confirm the invoice field count described in Copy-Workspace-Settings.md and Duplicate-Workspace.md matches what the Invoices row shows.
  • Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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N/A — documentation only.

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// Please describe what QA needs to do to validate your changes and what areas do they need to test for regressions.

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Android: Native
Android: mWeb Chrome
iOS: Native
iOS: mWeb Safari
MacOS: Chrome / Safari

@mollfpr, please review the files changed and confirm they reflect the current behavior. Then post a new comment saying @MelvinBot mark this PR as ready for review.

Co-authored-by: Mohammad Luthfi Fathur Rahman <mollfpr@users.noreply.github.com>
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No update needed on this, per tightened Melvinbot criteria (see https://github.com/Expensify/Expensify/issues/685679). Please comment or reopen if you disagree!

truph01 pushed a commit to truph01/App that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2026
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