Almost every Peakboard application that shows tabular data eventually needs a way to filter it. A shop floor terminal that lists open work orders, a warehouse dashboard that shows pending shipments, a service desk view that lists open tickets - sooner or later somebody asks “can we narrow this down...
Every Peakboard developer has lived through this scene. We build a clean KPI tile, polish the typography, get the border radius just right, then copy and paste it onto four more screens. A week later somebody asks for a 2px tighter shadow, and we are back in the Designer at...
In this article, we will discuss two features introduced in early 2026 with Peakboard version 4.2: parameterized data flows and nested styled lists. We are covering them in the same article because they are often used together, although it is not always necessary to do so. For parameterized data flows,...
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...
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...