From b248afc8085c193d62479a8f9e48b8c75a3aead5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephane Nicoll <snicoll@pivotal.io>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 11:15:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify conversion system in Appendix

Closes gh-14645
---
 .../src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc    | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc
index 3c0c419fe29..319acdafdb2 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/appendix-application-properties.adoc
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ your `application.yml` file, or as command line switches. This appendix provides
 of common Spring Boot properties and references to the underlying classes that consume
 them.
 
+TIP: Spring Boot provides various conversion mechanism with advanced value formatting,
+make sure to review <<spring-boot-features.adoc#boot-features-external-config-conversion,
+the properties conversion section>>.
+
 NOTE: Property contributions can come from additional jar files on your classpath, so you
 should not consider this an exhaustive list. Also, you can define your own properties.