diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/web/spring-graphql.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/web/spring-graphql.adoc
index 452df0f4aeb..d14001862f6 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/web/spring-graphql.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/web/spring-graphql.adoc
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ A Spring GraphQL application requires a defined schema at startup.
 By default, you can write ".graphqls" or ".gqls" schema files under `src/main/resources/graphql/**` and Spring Boot will pick them up automatically.
 You can customize the locations with configprop:spring.graphql.schema.locations[] and the file extensions with configprop:spring.graphql.schema.file-extensions[].
 
+NOTE: If you want Spring Boot to detect schema files in all your application modules and dependencies for that location,
+you can set configprop:spring.graphql.schema.locations[] to `+"classpath*:graphql/**/"+` (note the `classpath*:` prefix).
+
 In the following sections, we'll consider this sample GraphQL schema, defining two types and two queries:
 
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