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.
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...
OpenWeatherMap offers a simple, easy-to-use API that provides weather data for anywhere on Earth. This API runs in the backend of many websites and applications. And here’s the best part: Some of the API endpoints are free to use, so long as you don’t exceed a certain quota. In this...
A couple of weeks ago, we gave an introduction on how to print with Peakboard, where we explained how to use the printer extension with high-level commands. In another article, we explained how to mix high-level commands with low-level ESC/POS commands. In today’s article, we’ll explain how to use the...
In 2011, SAP launched SAP Hana, a completely new type of database. It was designed to replace SQL Server, Oracle, and Informix as the database backend of choice for SAP systems. Now, more than a decade later, running SAP with anything other than Hana is almost unthinkable. But Hana can...
The future of SAP is clear: Everything will be cloud based. The age of on-prem SAP systems is over. And when it comes to connecting systems—both SAP and non-SAP—with one another, the best solution is SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform). A big part of SAP BTP is the SAP Integration...
Peakboard Hub is not only for Box-related administration tasks. It’s often used to store data. Whenever data is stored, data analysis is around the corner. That’s our topic for today. We will discuss how to use Power BI to consume data that’s stored inside Peakboard Hub. Before reading this article,...
The Peakboard Box is designed to start working as soon as you take it out of the box and connect it to power and a network. The Peakboard runtime is designed to run securely on the Peakboard Box’s hardware. All non-essential software components are switched off or put into hibernation....
Over two years ago, we published two articles about Shelly products: One about how to use the button and another about how to use the power plug. A lot of time has passed since then, and many readers have come back and have actually used Shelly products in a professional...