Vibe coding is having a moment. With a single prompt and a coffee break we can now generate a slick web app, a landing page, or a marketing dashboard from tools like v0, Lovable, Bolt or Claude Code. It is genuinely impressive, and for a lot of internal tools the...
With the new version 4.1, the Peakboard Dev team introduced a whole new level of debugging for Peakboard applications. Up to this point, debugging mainly relied on log messages. These are generated automatically by the Peakboard Runtime Engine for almost any activity and, of course, for any errors that occur....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is where a lot of mid-market manufacturers land when SAP feels like too much ceremony. It stores what any ERP does - items, purchase orders, sales orders, production orders, stock movements - and exposes almost all of it through a REST/OData API secured by the...
In this week’s article we take apart a term that turns up in almost every procurement conversation but rarely gets explained properly: data sovereignty. It sounds like a polite synonym for data protection, but it isn’t quite that. Sovereignty is about control - who decides where our data is created,...
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...