Translate "Outlook 365" reactions into Discourse reactions

[supermathie (Michael Brown)]

Looks like Outlook 365 has a feature where you can react to emails.

I’ve seen this a few times in the last little while. It would be nifty if these got translated to an analogous reaction in Discourse when the email is received:

Right now we see, for example:

or:

and then that message gets sent out to everyone in the PM. It has the potential to be very noisy.

Similarly, removing a reaction sends this:

There’s a src-less image at the front there, FYI:

<td><img alt="0" src="" style="height:25px; width:25px"> </td>\n<td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span>

[rogerdean (Roger)]

Yes please… My forum is already getting noisy with Outlook reactions, made worse as my people are mostly in mailing list mode (but that bit’s their problem )

[Jonathan5]

I’ve voted for this.

According to ChatGPT (which I’m wary of but gave an answer that matched a screenshot online, so it seems fairly realistic this time):

The available reactions are limited to six specific emojis:

1. (Thumbs Up)
2. (Heart)
3. (Party Popper)
4. (Smiley Face)
5. (Surprised Face)
6. (Thumbs Down)

I suppose if we haven’t enabled reactions beyond likes on our forum, we’d want the option of choosing which to count as likes (eg 1-4 above).

[NateDhaliwal]

Perhaps a requirement would be to install the Reactions plugin since IIRC that plugin provides the

@Jonathan5

we’d want the option of choosing which to count as likes

functionality.

[supermathie (Michael Brown)]

I’m disheartened by the idea that one would turn to ChatGPT for verification rather than their own eyes, but I guess that’s the world we’re starting to live in.

Also, it’s outright wrong. The sixth reaction is [sad], not [thumbsdown].

<td><img alt="sad" src="upload://44BK5YWG5LM33M6R65JnqpZAXGO.png" style="height:25px; width:25px"></td><td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span></td>

Same as the screenshot in the OP, which hasn’t changed.

Since I’m here, this is the HTML that’s sent for each at time of writing (with a bit of extra space added to line things up):

<td><img alt="0"         src=""                                                               style="height:25px; width:25px"> </td><td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span></td>
<td><img alt="like" src="upload://nO9mywAEEIa8YFG7mh3mViUWfOf.png" style="height:25px; width:25px"></td><td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span></td>
<td><img alt="heart" src="upload://Ap3BpyLsEpjr2JtRGM5LWZeQXkS.png" style="height:25px; width:25px"></td><td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span></td>
<td><img alt="celebrate" src="upload://pNwWAZrYCrjQ6pIMm1CB9TRkaEb.png" style="height:25px; width:25px"></td><td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span></td>
<td><img alt="laugh" src="upload://pi1TNP00vFsbZO5rI3h9UKkjKAP.png" style="height:25px; width:25px"></td><td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span></td>
<td><img alt="surprised" src="upload://gaxqyWKJqgLJkv8lFOpWWE2DgbM.png" style="height:25px; width:25px"></td><td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span></td>
<td><img alt="sad" src="upload://44BK5YWG5LM33M6R65JnqpZAXGO.png" style="height:25px; width:25px"></td><td><span style="font-weight:bold; padding-left:3px">Michael Brown</span> <span>reacted to your message:</span></td>

I’m curious if there’s any regional differences here.

[Jonathan5]

@supermathie

I’m disheartened by the idea that one would turn to ChatGPT for verification rather than their own eyes, but I guess that’s the world we’re starting to live in.

I know what you mean. I don’t have emojis on my Outlook, and didn’t realise the screenshot above was from Outlook – maybe I skimmed it thinking it was someone’s Discourse choice of reactions. It was hard to find something online to state exactly what emoji set Outlook uses (or whether it allows any emoji) and I wanted something to cut and paste, so went to ChatGPT out of desperation. I had no easy way to check as I just didn’t have (or, really, want to take) the time to look back over my previous searches.

But I’ve told it that it was wrong, and I hope it feels as sheepish as I do for being lazy!

You’re correct, and I appreciate the clarification! In Office 365’s email reactions, the six emojis available are:

1. (Thumbs Up)
2. (Heart)
3. (Party Popper)
4. (Smiley Face)
5. (Surprised Face)
6. (Sad Face)

Thank you for catching that!

[Jonathan5]

PS I think no.4 is wrong too!

[NateDhaliwal]

Yea, the reactions I have are