We’ve covered many different ways of integrating SAP with Peakboard on this blog. In this article, we’ll look at SAP’s physical inventory component—which lets warehouse staff do a physical inventory count, and then record the numbers in SAP.
Every Peakboard application and Peakboard Flow is a development artifact that should be managed properly. This means providing documentation for them and using a version control system to keep track of changes.
Hub Flows let you run automated tasks the background, without any user interaction. We covered the basics of Hub Flows in Part I and Part II of our Hub Flows series. In this article, we’ll take a look at another typical use case with Hub Flows. The scenario Imagine you...
Every Peakboard application is built around one or more screens. These screens are like the windows in a traditional desktop application. However, we sometimes want to have a modal window that forces the user to interact with it, before they can do anything else. For example, we might want a...
InfluxDB is a time-series database. Unlike general-purpose databases like MySQL, InfluxDB is designed specifically to deal with timestamped data—and it can scale to handle large volumes of data. It was created by InfluxData, a company based in the Bay Area. In this article, we’ll explain how to build a Peakboard...
We recently gave an introduction of Peakboard Hub Flows. In that article, we explained the basics of how to build, deploy, and monitor Peakboard Hub Flows. In this article, we take Hub Flows one step further and showcase a real-world scenario where Hub Flows are very helpful. The scenario Assume...
One the most important jobs of a Peakboard application is to communicate with the outside world. In today’s article, we’ll take a look at the seven API, a business messaging gateway service that makes it easy for businesses to send and receive SMS. First, we’ll explain how the seven API...
Peakboard has become the ultimate data visualization platform for industrial workplaces. Peakboard connects to a wide variety of data sources and offers fast and simple application development. But until now, not many individual users have tried the Peakboard platform—because its price point was higher than free alternatives like Node-RED and...
We’ve published many articles on how to integrate Office 365 with Peakboard. In this article, we’ll take a look at Office 365 again—but this time, we’ll explain how to integrate Microsoft Teams into Peakboard. Example use cases Companies often use Microsoft Teams to create a link between factory workers and...
Peakboard has always focused on UI-centric, local applications—unlike other systems like Tulip or Mendix. With Peakboard, all the processing happens on a local device (a Box or a BYOD instance), so you don’t need to have a central server or a cloud to host your applications. This is a big...
Office 365 is often used as a data backend for different applications within a company. In previous articles, we explained how to combine Peakboard and Office 365 apps. In this article, we explain how to use SharePoint lists to build a newsstand app that shows the latest company news. Before...
In our last article, we explained what an auditing app is and how the underlying tables work. The audit definitions are stored in the AuditTemplateHeader and AuditTemplateItem tables. And the audit run data is stored in the AuditHeader and AuditItem tables. We also discussed the sample data that is necessary...