HipChat

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Introduction

Hip Chat integration with JIRA is project based. The JIRA/Project Administrator can integrate Hip Chat with your JIRA projects. For more information, please refer to Using JIRA applications with HipChat.

Once you integrate a HipChat room with your JIRA project, you can set issue filter and start receiving preferred notifications from JIRA in that room.

How to Integrate a Team Room

1. Click the icon for administration at the extreme right of the navigation bar and select Projects. It displays the project list you have permissions for.

2. Click on the project name you want to integrate Hip Chat with.

3. It opens Project Settings page.

4. Locate and click HipChat Integration on the vertical menu bar at left.

5. The HipChat Integration screen opens. Click the Connect HipChat button.

6. It navigates you from JIRA to HipChat. Log into your HipChat account.

 

7. A confirmation window mentioning JIRA server access to your HipChat account is displayed.

8. Click the Approve button to grant JIRA server access to your HipChat account.

9. It navigates you back to JIRA and asks you to select your HipChat room to integrate with the selected JIRA project.

10. Select the HipChat room from your HipChat account to integrate with JIRA. You can also add additional rooms later.

Adding "Test Scenario" Issues for Discussion

Once the room is integrated, define the issue filter and opt for the events on occurrence of which the users in the room should get notified.

For issues that match this filter: Select filter criteria for test scenario. Here, select "Test Scenario" as Type

Send a message to the room when: Select events like "Issue created", "Assignee updated", "Someone leaves a comment".

For example,
Test Scenario is selected as a filter to the issues and the above events are selected to receive notifications.
Hence, all the users in the room will receive notifications when –
  • a test scenario is created
  • Assignee of a test scenario is updated
  • someone leaves a comment to a test scenario

 

The following is your HipChat room where you receive the notifications.