Best Practice - How to dismantle a Peakboard Box

October 01, 2024 • 3 mins read

The Ultimate Guide to Building an Enterprise Template for Peakboard Applications

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Building a Peakboard application is easy and straightforward. But usually, as the scope increases, people from different parts of the company start getting involved—different departments and geographical locations. In this case, there are some best practices and patterns for enterprise to consider. In this article, we’ll discuss how to build...

May 28, 2024 • 4 mins read

Unlocking Microsoft's Dataverse with Peakboard

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The backbone of any Dynamics 365 application is Microsoft Dataverse. This is true for standard D365 apps like CRM or Business Central, but also for any kind of Power App. So, Dataverse can be seen as a kind of cloud-based database. This article is a step-by-step guide on how to...

February 04, 2024 • 4 mins read

Mastering the Merge - A Guide to Seamless Tableau Integration in Peakboard Applications

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Peakboard applications are often used with BI tools. We discussed this topic in this article where we embedded a Power BI map. In today’s article, we will do something similar, but with Tableau. Unlike with Power BI, there isn’t a dedicated control for Tableau dashboards. Instead, we use the HTML...

December 01, 2023 • 4 mins read

Table madness - How to modify and reformat rows in a table control dynamically without any code

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Table controls are the most commonly used controls for displaying table data. However, we often see that designers do not use them to their full potential. Table controls can be customized to make it as easy as possible for end users to find the information they’re looking for. This article...

November 24, 2023 • 3 mins read

Dismantle SharePoint - How to use a document library to store technical drawings and download them in Peakboard dynamically

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We often see screens in factories with technical drawings of their products. This is most common in manual/semi-manual production and quality management. Besides purely technical drawings, other unstructured data is also displayed: step-by-step guides, quality check instructions, and other documentation. The de facto standard format for all these documents is...

October 19, 2023 • 5 mins read

Peakboard BYOD - The beginner's guide to BYOD setup

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For years, the physical, black box has been the definitive symbol for Peakboard. But by the end of 2023, Peakboard will offer a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) edition. In this article, we will learn how to use our own device as a standalone runtime instance for Peakboard BYOD. To download the binaries,...

September 12, 2023 • 4 mins read

Understanding locks when using SQL Server to store fast changing machine or sensor data

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In the realm of database management systems, concurrency control plays a vital role in ensuring data integrity and consistent query results. This article explains how locks in SQL Server databases work, particularly in scenarios where simultaneous reads and writes occur. Additionally, it explores the application of the WITH (NOLOCK) hint...

May 01, 2023 • 5 mins read

Store machine states in SQL Server and build a data historian (best practice)

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What are machine states and why would I want to build a data historian? It is common to use Peakboard to collect various states for artefacts. This includes the state of a machine (running, stopped), the state of person (working, having a break), or the state of a door (open,...

April 24, 2023 • 4 mins read

Best Practice - Use Power BI for integrating maps

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A lot of people use Peakboard as a medium to integrate Power BI dashboards with other data, and create a dashboard that mashes up both non-Power-BI with Power-BI visuals and data. In today’s article, we will see how to do just that. We will build a Power BI report with...

April 10, 2023 • 3 mins read

Dismantle Number Value Formatting

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Please note, that the content of this article might not be aligned with the latest version of Pakboard designer or runtime but applies to an older version Displaying numbers in the correct format is one of the fundamental tasks of building a board. The basic features of number formatting in...

January 28, 2023 • 3 mins read

How to manage and organise team access for Peakboard boxes in large organisations

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How do you manage and organise Peakboard boxes throughout a large organsation, across different teams of content creators, technical admins, and physical locations? Of course, you don’t want to send out box credentials to all stakeholders. This article is here to help you understand some basic concepts in using Peakboard...

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