A lot of Peakboard applications circle around communication with the outside world. In today’s article, we will discuss to send Slack messages from your Peakboard application. A typical example would be to be connected to a machine, for example, by OPC UA, and then process this information, and then generate...
This article is part 5 of our Hub Flows series. Today, we’ll discuss how to handle high-volume transaction data. Before continuing, make sure you understand the basics of the Hub Flows.
In a previous article, we discussed how to use the Peakboard Hub API to send a notification to a Peakboard Box. This method is very useful when the Peakboard Box (or BYOD instance) is not directly reachable from the caller, or when the IP address is unknown. It works even...
Many Peakboard apps have text boxes that let the user submit some text. However, accepting text input isn’t as simple as adding a text box control and calling it a day. You should expect users to occasionally give bad inputs—text that doesn’t match the format that your app expects. So,...
In this part of our Hub Flows series, we’ll look at another common design pattern: A message queue that sends messages asynchronously. Before continuing, make sure you understand the basics of Hub Flows. What is a message queue? A message queue accepts messages from producers. It temporarily stores the messages,...
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. In the past, workers had to carry around paper lists to do...
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. When it comes to documentation, a Peakboard project (an application or a Flow) includes built-in documentation, like description...
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...