How do you put a reference photo into a survey's instructions?

Instructions accept Markdown, so an image goes in with the standard Markdown image syntax pointing at the image's URL. Host the image somewhere reachable and reference it by that URL.

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Why this matters

Some questions are far easier to show than to describe. A photo of the correct meter reading position, or of what counts as a functional handpump, removes a whole category of enumerator error along with the retraining that follows it. It costs one line in the instructions.

How to do it

  1. Put the image somewhere with a stable, publicly reachable URL.
  2. Open the question's instructions in the survey designer.
  3. Add the Markdown image syntax, replacing the example path with your image URL.
  4. Preview the survey to confirm the image loads on a phone as well as in the Portal.

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