Tell us your Use Cases! We would love to hear what you are using Cyn.in for. Particularly: 1. What's your use case? Cyn.in can be used in several different ways, and we love to hear feedback. Constantly listening helps us help you by improving the product

Yann Bizeul — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:38:06 +0000

This got to be some kind of joke. Migrated to 3.2.1, and now comments comes with visible escaped HTML entities in recent portlet and URL... "Mise à jour du site web<br /><br />La KB a été mise"

Is this really 2011 soon ?

Tell us your Use Cases! We would love to hear what you are using Cyn.in for. Particularly: 1. What's your use case? Cyn.in can be used in several different ways, and we love to hear feedback. Constantly listening helps us help you by improving the product

Dhiraj Gupta — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:38:05 +0000

Tell us your Use Cases!
We would love to hear what you are using Cyn.in for.
Particularly:
1. What's your use case? Cyn.in can be used in several different ways, and we love to hear feedback. Constantly listening helps us help you by improving the product with every iteration.
2. What features / functionality / parts do you *really* like? What would you like to see more of, or where do you think we should go deeper?

Re:

Viraf Sarkari — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:20:06 +0000

The fix for the missing discussion title is already in SVN for quite sometime. you can get the source from the last tag in SVN and do a buildout to fix the same.

Uemit Seren — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:27:16 +0000

As a sidenote. There is a workaround for the missing titles of discussions. If you rename the discussion and provide a specific title, the title of the discussion will be displayed in the lists.

Yann Bizeul — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:12:14 +0000

We use it as our corporate knowledge base.
People are currently mainly working with discussions, blog articles to publish knowledge, and links object to post public references on the net.

The problem is the product looks pretty dead, not updated for a while, and I'm getting very concerned, as people are using it more and more in my company, migration would be long and painful.

I'm not looking for features for now, just for a working product where discussion titles are actually displayed in lists, where date and time are displayed on items, basic things like this. I think Cynapse really need to consolidate foundation before moving on, I mean if the product is still under development.

Kim Nylander — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:40:25 +0000

Thanks for the great info on using SWF files.

Any guidelines for integrating the Help Center? I really like the features it offers but have had a very difficult time getting it integrated.

Dhiraj Gupta — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:56:04 +0000

Sounds good. Do let us know if we can help out in any way. :)

Dhiraj Gupta — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:55:27 +0000

That's awesome feedback, really amazing how you're successfully "centralizing" everything in your company with Cyn.in. :)

Cristian — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:20:46 +0000

I am launching a Pilot Test for intranet porpouses in Facultad Regional Delta, Campana, Buenos Aires-Argentina.

Jay Weldy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:37:14 +0000

I've installed Cyn.in at my full time job, Burke Equipment Company. I've moved all of our shared company excel, word and powerpoint presentations into it along with every program we use. This includes our internal phone directory and our Sales Reps proprietary sales programs. We just finished a data dump from our business system of all our customers and they have been migrated into a spread sheet on Cyn.in that includes all emails, addresses, etc.
We have 75 users on the system right now and each has a private (not visible to other users) space and I've taken all the files each user has on their work-stations and have migrated them into Cyn.in where they are now quickly searchable from the desktop client. My philosophy with this move is that I can now just backup the Cyn.in virtual appliance instead of 75 work-stations, relieving a huge IT burden.
Cyn.in has really excelled at using it for our extensive training videos which again, now can be watched from the desktop client.
I migrated our users from another fine program "MindTouch" and since Cyn.in is such a more sophisticated user interface I was worried that my sometimes hesitant users would have a hard time. The first day I was live I received a call from one of our remote locations saying, and I do quote: " This is amazing, I click on a file and it's here in seconds. Really amazing!".
Less than two months into production my users are maintaining all their new documentation on the Cyn.in server, regularly watching the training videos and posting discussions in Cyn.in and the desktop client to find equipment and implements (We are a Bobcat, Toro & Kubota Dealership) at other locations.
We can easily post video and photos of equipment and copy the links to customers to see instead of moving equipment around.
I can't say enough good about this application that has been offered to the open source community.

Dhiraj Gupta — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:57:08 +0000

Using Cyn.in for authoring and then dedicating a Space + User to accomplish RSS feed publishing is also possible. You could use a Space as a publishing area root and then consume the RSS2 or ATOM feeds of the Space (pick up the feeds from the Activity Stream (which auto-updates with whatever search parameters you set)) and use the URLed authentication for HTTP BASIC Auth trick (http://username:password@cyninsitedomain.com/FEEDURLPath) to consume and publish the feed into any system.

Most PHP / curl based CMSes (and many other) systems will work with the URLed authentication way above, and you can directly consume+aggregate+publish. Files, Images, Audio and Video are available as enclosure items in the feeds. It's safe enough for server to server communication, and besides, the idea is that you dedicate a separate "public user" that can only see that Space and all the content that you want to pull is on that Space. Drupal's feed modules, for example, are particularly potent when you look at re-purposing them this way.

Zend Sarkari — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:05:51 +0000

Interesting requirements towards external web 2.0 content. As for the German localization, you should be having a better one in the next version.

Marc Widmer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:23:05 +0000

I'd like to use it for a knowledgemanagment platform for a small (10 -20) team and some collaborators ... what i'd like to see (and for me thie is very important) is the possibility to integrate web 2.0-content (e.g. twitter, xing, google reader starred/recomended entries, google docs, delicious).

What i could offer is a proper german localization ... the demo doesn't look very well translatet and does not support ä ö ü.

Viraf Sarkari — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:13:32 +0000

Follow this guide to setup Cyn.in to publish content for Anonymous access a.k.a (no login required) http://www.cynapse.com/[…]/setup-cyn-in-for-anonymous-access

tom smith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:02:05 +0000

I'm currently involved in the Collaborative Tools Project at the University of York.. our use cases (gathered over quite a while, from lots of people) can be put briefly as...

1. Collaborative Document Editing (Adobe Acrobat or Wikis?) for research bid writing, documentation
2. Project workgroup (private wiki, some blogging, file sharing, forums)
3. Departmental Showcase ( public blogging, some wiki stuff all with design polish) <-- it's a shame cyn.in is weak here with no "open access/no login required" spaces. Perhaps this can be achieved by "presenting" an RSS feed from a space somewhere else...

... all with added social media "fluff" and increased people discoverability

So far we've trialled (quite extensively) SocialText (commercial), LifeRay, Jive (commercial) Confluence, Elgg... and looked at many, many others including omCollab (a blend of WordPress, MediaWiki, phpBB etc) and fosWiki...

For some reason, I hadn't come across cyn.in... so far it looks FANTASTIC!!!!!