We could not live without this function in my office and were forced to implement our own solution via a Build Your Own Integration. When users call for an emoticon by using "/big (emoticon)" instead of the regular "(emoticon)" call, the script searches the emoticon list and then inserts the "4x" variant of the picture into the chat stream:
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First you need an admin to set up a personal token which allows access to the "View Groups" scope. This allows the integration script access to retrieve the emoticon list.
You also need to set up a Build Your Own Integration for the script in the room of choice. This will generate a room token, show you the room number, and allow you to create a command string (we use /big).
Lastly the script is php and can be hosted wherever you like. It needs to be populated with the emoticon token, the room token, the room number, and the address of your chat server in the header section:
<?php
//Setup system tokens
$token='<Room token string goes here>';
$admintoken='<Admin "View Groups" scope token here>';
$room=<room number>;
$server='<Server Host Name>';
//Read request data
$content=file_get_contents('php://input');
$dec=json_decode($content);
//Isolate message text and strip out extra characters
$item=$dec->item;
$message=$item->message;
$text=preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9 \/]/", '', $message->message);
//Isolate the emoticon name
$text=substr($text,strpos($text,'/big '));
$text=substr($text,5);
//Trim trailing characters if any
if (strpos($text,' ')!==false) {
$text=substr($text,0,strpos($text,' '));
}
if ($text!=""){
//If the emoticon string is non-empty, connect to the chat server and pull the emoticon list.
$emoticons=file_get_contents('https://' . $server . '/v2/emoticon?auth_token=' . $admintoken . '&max-results=1000');
$eloc=strpos($emoticons,$text);
if ($eloc!==false){
//If a matching emoticon is found, generate a URL for the 4x image size file
$emoticons=substr($emoticons,$eloc);
$eloc=strpos($emoticons,'url');
$emoticons=substr($emoticons,$eloc+7);
$eloc=strpos($emoticons,'}');
$emoticons=substr($emoticons,0,$eloc-1);
$emoticons=substr($emoticons,0,-4) . '@4x' . substr($emoticons,-4,4);
//Generate chat display message
$text='<img src=' . $emoticons . '>';
//Send json message reply with the large emoticon
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://' . $server . '/v2/room/' . $room . '/notification?auth_token=' . $token);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'{"color":"green","message":"' . $text .'","notify":false,"message_format":"html"}');
curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
} else {
//If a matching emoticon is NOT found
//Generate a a "Not Found" reply
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://' . $server . '/v2/room/' . $room . '/notification?auth_token=' . $token);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'{"color":"green","message":"Not Found' . $text . '","notify":false,"message_format":"text"}');
curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
}
} else {
//If an empty emoticon string is recieved, send a general error message
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://' . $server . '/v2/room/' . $room . '/notification?auth_token=' . $token);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'{"color":"green","message":"Request Error","notify":false,"message_format":"text"}');
curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
}
?>The downside to this method is that tokens need to be generated and new copies of the script made for EVERY room that needs this functionality.
At this time of this comment, making a "Global" script is significantly more complex; it requires you to build a HipChat Connect Integration which has all kinds of very complicated OAuth handshakes to do. I am not a coder and could not figure it out. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/35765694/can-you-build-your-own-integration-in-hipchat-cloud-that-can-access-all-rooms
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