# Cannot create or edit events in a shared calendar

**What you are seeing**

I cannot create or edit events in a shared calendar.

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## Why it happens

Permission comes from Confluence content permissions on the calendar itself, re-checked on every request. Built-in calendars (Recently viewed pages, Mentions) are read-only by construction.

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## What to do

Ask a space administrator for edit rights on the space or page where the calendar lives. On a macro, also check that "Event editing" is turned on.

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## Settings involved

| **Setting**                    | **Where**                                             | **What it does**                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Calendar (global settings tab) | Confluence settings → Capable → Calendar              | Card title "Calendar subscriptions", description "Personal iCal feed links your users have generated for calendars." Lists user, calendar, status and created date, paged with Previous/Next. Non-administrators see "Conflu |
| Calendar Name                  | Calendar page → open a calendar → Configuration panel | The calendar's title. Two calendars in the same container cannot share a title.                                                                                                                                              |
| Base Timezone                  | Calendar Configuration panel                          | "Set the timezone by which events are co-ordinated. Note that events are shown in the timezone of the user viewing the calendar." In practice it pre-fills the event create/edit form only. The grid always draws events in  |

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## Limits that apply here

| **Limit**                   | **Value** | **What happens**                                                                                                            |
| --------------------------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| iCal feed window            | \-        | Events outside this rolling window never reach a subscriber's calendar app, even though they render fine inside Confluence. |
| iCal feed size              | \-        | Beyond the cap, events are silently omitted from the feed.                                                                  |
| Static site calendar export | \-        | Beyond that the exported page prints "Only the first 500 events are included on static sites."                              |

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[Permissions and accessThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/permissions-and-access.html)

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