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.
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.
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...
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...