Category: Office 365

April 12, 2026 • 5 mins read

Master of the Dataverse - How to connect your Peakboard App to the Microsoft Power Platform

#office365

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...

Read more

July 15, 2025 • 5 mins read

From Factory Floor to Chat Window - Peakboard Meets Microsoft Teams

#office365

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...

Read more

June 29, 2025 • 7 mins read

How to Build a Company Newsstand with a SharePoint List (and Peakboard Magic)

#office365

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...

Read more

April 18, 2025 • 6 mins read

Peak-a-Boo! Revealing Peakboard Hub List Data in your Power BI Dashboards

#api #peakboardhub #peakboardhubapi #office365

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,...

Read more

March 25, 2025 • 5 mins read

SharePoint Lists in Beast Mode – Powered by Peakboard

#office365

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...

Read more

February 13, 2025 • 3 mins read

Elevate Your Workflow - Building a Next-Gen Continuous Improvement Board with Office 365 To Do

#office365

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...

Read more

January 12, 2025 • 4 mins read

Getting started with the new Office 365 Data Sources

#office365

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...

Read more

September 07, 2024 • 5 mins read

The Great Data Tango - Mastering PowerBI and Peakboard Integration with Filters

#office365

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...

Read more

May 28, 2024 • 4 mins read

Unlocking Microsoft's Dataverse with Peakboard

#bestpractice #office365

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...

Read more

January 20, 2024 • 4 mins read

Reading and writing Sharepoint lists with Graph extension

#msgraph #office365

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...

Read more

November 24, 2023 • 3 mins read

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

#bestpractice #office365

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...

Read more

October 11, 2023 • 5 mins read

MS Graph API - Access the company's room calendars

#msgraph #office365

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...

Read more

August 12, 2023 • 4 mins read

Dismantle O365 group calendars with MS Graph API

#msgraph #api #office365

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...

Read more

July 21, 2023 • 3 mins read

MS Graph API - Show user's online status by getting it with a POST call

#msgraph #api #office365

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...

Read more

July 11, 2023 • 3 mins read

MS Graph API - Send messages to Teams group

#msgraph #office365

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...

Read more

June 09, 2023 • 3 mins read

MS Graph API - Understand the basics and get started

#msgraph #office365

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...

Read more

April 24, 2023 • 4 mins read

Best Practice - Use Power BI for integrating maps

#tutorial #bestpractice #office365

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...

Read more