I’m using the naming convention Type.property for properties in my frontmatter to help categorize and sort them by type. This means many of my property keys include dots (e.g., Person.name, Book.title, etc.).
However, I’ve noticed that when a note linked inside one of these dotted properties is renamed, Obsidian does not update the link in that property field. This leads to broken links throughout the vault when notes are renamed.
Expected Behavior:
Obsidian should recognize and update internal links inside any frontmatter property—regardless of whether the property name contains a dot.
Actual Behavior:
If the property name contains a dot, the link inside the property is ignored during the rename process and left broken.
Environment:
Obsidian Flatpak version
Running on Secureblue Kinoite (hardened Fedora-based immutable OS)
Notes:
This might be a minor edge case, and a documentation warning about using dots in property names could be a sufficient workaround for many users. Still, supporting this use case would help those of us who rely on namespaced property keys for organization.
