We have JIRA/HipChat integration working well with our workflow transitions. I'd now like comments made on a bunch of our projects to automatically post to HipChat as well. The problem I see so far is that * comments aren't workflow transitions, and so can't trigger the HipChat post function * project notification schemes only include email as an option Has anyone done this or have ideas on how to set this up?

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Posting JIRA Issue comments to HipChat

Ben Wright1

We have JIRA/HipChat integration working well with our workflow transitions. I'd now like comments made on a bunch of our projects to automatically post to HipChat as well.

The problem I see so far is that

comments aren't workflow transitions, and so can't trigger the HipChat post function
project notification schemes only include email as an option

Has anyone done this or have ideas on how to set this up?

Accepted answers

Ben Wright1

Sure thing. We set up a web hook to HipChat "zap" in Zapier. We set a web hook up in JIRA and used the Zapier-generated URL as the destination. Back in Zapier, we used the following filter to catch the hook:

webhookEvent -> (Text) matches exactly -> jira:issue_updated AND

comment_body -> Exists AND

comment_body -> (Text) Does not contain -> #nohipchat

(We put that last line in there so that we had a mechanism to prevent comments from pushing to JIRA if we wanted to)

In the "Create Message" portion of the Zap, we formatted is as follows:

And it ends up looking like this:

All comments

Taiwo Akindele

Hi Ben,

have you tried this plugin Go2Group HipChat Plugin for JIRA. I don't know if it's available for your version of JIRA though, but its features include:

- Notify Hipchat post-function. This can be added at any workflow transition.

- Subscription to selected issue events, configured per project. Following are the events supported:

Issue Created
Issue Updated
Issue Assigned
Issue Commented
Issue Deleted
Workflow Changes

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

Another version of the plugin is ready to release which also include announcements. You can post announcements to Hipchat directly from JIRA. Same is now available with the Confluence,Fisheye,Bamboo,Stash plugins too.

Asim Baksh

Along the same lines, I'm looking to do the reverse.. I want a hipchat conversation to be linked or added as a comment in Jira. Is that possible?

Ben Wright1

Do you know whether this Go2Group plugin works with JIRA 6? The info says it's compatible with version v.5 and doesn't mention v.6.

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

We have a new version that works with JIRA6. It is yet to be uploaded into marketplace. Contact support at go2group dot com if you want to try it out before it is uploaded.

Ben Wright1

Thanks, I will do that. I appreciate the help in the right direction.

Ben Wright1

As a footnote, the Go2Group plugin for JIRA wasn't able to do quite what we were looking for, which was post the actual contents of our comments into HipChat rather than simply the status change. But we did figure out how to do this with Zapier.com thanks to an Atlassian blog post. We set up an appropriate "Zap" and are now able to see the contents of our comments inline and in realtime right in HipChat. Very nice!

Schedule Agent

Could you educate the rest of us on how you did this... that blog post didn't really explain how to get comments to work. I don't see any "new comment" type options on our zap for this.