Enable template developers to include an illustrative sample string within the field.

[johardi]

This feature would allow template developers to provide an illustrative sample string for users to reference when completing the form.

[matthewhorridge]

We would like this for RADx too. This shouldn't just be a string though, it needs to be an actual instance object (literal or IRI for fields)

[matthewhorridge]

Furthermore... I believe these example need to be in the context of an element or a template. One thought that I have is to create a canonical or prototype instance for a template and tie it to the template so that the example can be viewed easily inline or whereever

[graybeal]

When I had to make The Greatest Template Ever, I put the example text at the end of each description between square brackets. Crude but effective.

From that experience I believe that the user doesn't seen instance objects, they see a string. What we used the example for is to trigger the user about what kind of information will go in the field, not tell them what type of field they are filling out. The fact that it's done with a term object and not a literal is almost invisible to them

[johardi]

What I have in mind to implement this on CEDAR is another attribute under "OPTIONS" that says "Enter input example", and template developers can add an example string there.

And this will work nicely with the OpenView to make the straight line look less awkward.

[matthewhorridge]

Some more requirements/ideas: I think it should be possible to specify multiple examples. And, I want to use real terms, numbers etc. and this should be programatically accessible.