Looking to add instructions and/or placeholder text to fields

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Hello there! I’ve used Strapi for an experimental project and am very happy with it. I’d love to start using it on a regular basis. I make a lot of small- to mid-sized websites for local businesses. It is important to me to support instructions for fields. That really helps non-technical users learn the content-authoring with confidence. In Craft CMS I can do both instructions and placeholder text, in addition to default values:

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I’ve searched around and not found a way to do this in Strapi. Would it be possible to accomplish this with a plugin?

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Same here.
This forum is pretty quiet huh!

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Actually, just found where you can do this
You have to click on ‘Configure the View’ and then the field you want to add the description by

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Hey, @Dan! Thanks! Maybe I’m just slow (I am) but I’m not seeing a way to add descriptions after clicking “Configure the View” and selecting a field. Would you share a screenshot?

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Ah, found it. Click on the field itself and you get a popup with description, placeholder, label and a read-only toggle. Thanks!

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O nice, just found it aswell!

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After clicking ‘configure the view’ you should see the fields that you have previously created.
You then just click on a field and there will be a Description box.
It feels kind of buried away, or in the wrong place at least!

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Agreed does seem quite burried away. Been using Strapi for about 6 months now and never noticed!

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Any idea how can have it added via code? at model/schema file.