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...
Last week we pulled an Office 365 group calendar into Peakboard and watched its entries land in the Designer’s preview pane as five neat columns: Subject, Start, End, Body and Location. Five neat columns are perfect for a styled list or a KPI tile, but a calendar is fundamentally a...
A calendar feels like the most office-y of office tools - a thing for meeting rooms and HR onboarding sessions, not for the line. In practice the shop floor runs on schedules too: shift handover at six, planned maintenance windows on Tuesday morning, supplier audits booked weeks ahead, a training...
The Microsoft Graph API is the unified gateway to almost everything in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Whether it is users, groups, calendars, Teams messages, SharePoint lists, or - as in this article - Microsoft Planner, the Graph API exposes all of it through a single, consistent REST interface. Peakboard already...
In early 2024, we discussed how to access Microsoft Dynamics CRM data. Since then, Microsoft has changed the backend, and the architecture for handling extensions on the Peakboard side has shifted significantly. As a result, starting with Peakboard version 4.1, the Dynamics Extension is no longer available. It has been...
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...
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...
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,...
In the first major update of 2025, the Peakboard dev team added a new series of Office 365 data sources. Office 365 has become increasingly important as a backend for many companies, with many different use cases. In today’s article, we’ll discuss how to read and write SharePoint lists from...
With the new Office 365 data sources, introduced by the Peakboard dev team in early 2025, you can access Microsoft To Do with just a few clicks. In this article, you will learn how to set up the Office 365 To Do data source. We will build a standard board...
Over a year ago, we published a series of articles about the Microsoft Graph API. We used the Graph API to access different objects from Office 365: calendars, SharePoint lists, Teams chats, and more. In early 2025, Peakboard introduced new data sources that allow you access Office 365 objects without...
A long time ago, we discussed how to use Power BI maps in Peakboard applications. In this article, we will discuss another aspect of Power BI integration: Filters. Peakboard users have been able to set dynamic filters since Q3 2024. Requirements and prerequisites The Power BI sheet we’re using is...
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...
In this article, we will learn how to read and write a Sharepoint list in an Office 365 environment. Before we start, make sure you understand the basics of the MS Graph API extension. Peakboard offers native access to Sharepoint lists. However, the built-in data source does not support multifactor...
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...
In this article, we will learn how to use Microsoft’s Graph API to integrate room calendars into Peakboard. We will create a dashboard that lets the user select a room, and then displays the events of that room. Here’s what the finished dashboard looks like. Notice how the list of...
This article covers a common use case when using MS Graph API with Peakboard: accessing and processing calendar event data. We will also learn how to use the $filter parameter in the Graph API. Please make sure to read through the basics of using MS Graph API in Peakboard: MS...
This article covers a nice use case for MS Graph: list all the users of a tenant who are currently active or online. At the same time, it’s also a nice example on how to combine two different API calls that are dependant on each other. Please make sure to...
Teams is one of the best communication tools for companies. This article explains how to send a Teams message from a Peakboard application using the MS Graph API. Please make sure to read through the basics of using MS Graph API in Peakboard: MS Graph API - Understand the basis...
This article covers the basics of using the MS Graph API with Peakboard. It’s boring, but it’s necessary. Sorry for this. The extension As of June 2023, Peakboard doesn’t support Graph calls natively, but there is an extension that adds this functionality. Please check out the extension’s website to find...
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...