diff --git a/example.deploy.properties b/example.deploy.properties
index 8fa94f42..b13384a5 100644
--- a/example.deploy.properties
+++ b/example.deploy.properties
@@ -127,6 +127,17 @@ selfEditing.idMatchingProperty = http://vivo.mydomain.edu/ns#networkId
 #externalAuth.buttonText = Log in using BearCat Shibboleth
 #externalAuth.netIdHeaderName = remote_userID 
 
+#
+# The temporal graph visualization can require extensive machine resources.
+# This can have a particularly noticable impact on memory usage if
+# - VIVO is configured to use Jena SDB,
+# - The organization tree is deep,
+# - The number of grants and publications is large.
+# VIVO release 1.2 guards against this impact by disabling the temporal graph 
+# visualization unless the "visualization.temporal" flag is set to "enabled".
+#
+#visualization.temporal = enabled 
+
 #
 # The temporal graph visualization is used to compare different organizations/people
 # within an organization on parameters like number of publications or grants.