Wiki links in properties not working

I’m new at using Obsidian; my understanding, from a couple YouTube videos I’ve watched, and from the Properties page in the User Guide, is that I’m supposed to be able to use internal links with the wikilink syntax inside properties / frontmatter. The Use Guider says it should work on properties of type text and type list.

But, when I try to do this, the link doesn’t work, and the property shows the “?” icon like it doesn’t know what type of value I inserted on it.

Screenshots of an example:

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Looks fine in edit mode.

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How it looks in preview mode.

I’m not sure what it is I’m doing wrong?

Quotes are needed outside the link.

Screenshot 2024-10-02 092731

https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Properties#Property+format

Internal links in Text and List type properties must be surrounded with quotes.

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