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.
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.
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...
This article is the first part of our two-part series on how to build an auditing app with Peakboard. In this article, we explain the architecture of an auditing app, including how the audit definition and audit data tables work. In the second part of this series, we discuss how...
A couple of weeks ago, we took introduced SAP BTP and the SAP Integration Suite. We explained how to connect an integration flow to Peakboard Hub. In this article, we will explain how to build an integration flow that exposes a JSON endpoint that Peakboard can call. This integration flow...
On this blog, we’ve introduced many different APIs and explained how to use them in Peakboard. Today, we’ll be looking at the DBF API. This is an unofficial API that returns the arrival and departure times of trains in Germany. The API’s backend is open source, and you can learn...