Tried to embed markdown file by adding ! before a piped link.
![[020 Investigate | Conduct Research]]
Obsidian should recognize 020 Investigate as the page and embed it.
Obsidian does not recognize 020 Investigate and does not embed it.
Why use the alias if you’re embedding?
Not sure if it’s the same reason as the OP but this has happened to me as well.
Not because I wanted to add an alias to an embedded note but because I had a link to a note that already had an alias and only after I wanted to make it embedded and had to remove the alias for it to work.
Good question. The need is totally irrational. But my user experience definitely “felt” broken when I encountered the error.
My file had a dozen or so piped links which I wanted to change to embeds. My instinct was to multi-cursor insert a bang before each. When that didn’t work I had to think about the software for a second, not the content.
This looks fixed now.