# Colour-code events on a Confluence calendar

To colour-code events on a Confluence calendar, open the calendar's settings, go to the **Tags** tab and add tags such as Release or Holiday, each with a colour. Tag your events and they take that colour. An event's own **Color** wins over its tags, and untagged events follow the calendar's colour scheme.

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## Before you start

* You need edit rights on the calendar to change its tags.
* Tags belong to one saved calendar. Each calendar has its own list.

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## Set up tags

1. Open the calendar and select **Configure calendar** (the cog) at the top right. You see it only if you can edit the calendar.
2. Select the **Tags** tab.
3. Select **New Tag**, type the **Tag name** and pick a colour.
4. Drag tags into order. When an event has several tags, the highest tag in the list sets its colour.
5. Select **Save**.

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## Tag an event

1. Open an event and select **Edit**, or create a new one.
2. On the **Tags** tab, select one or more tags from the calendar's list.
3. Select **Save Changes**.

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## How the colour is chosen

| **Order** | **Colour used**                                                                                                 |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 1         | The event's own **Color**, if it has one                                                                        |
| 2         | The colour of its highest-priority tag                                                                          |
| 3         | The calendar's **Color Scheme** (on a page, the macro's **Colours** setting): by page, by user, by type or none |

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## A few things that catch people out

* A tag already used by events cannot be renamed. You can still change its colour.
* The macro's **Colours** setting offers By user, By type and None. Colouring by page is only on the saved calendar's **Color Scheme**.
* Readers can show only some tags with **Filter events** in the calendar toolbar.

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## Related

### [Calendar settings](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/calendar-settings.html)

Every setting of a saved calendar.

### [Calendar macro](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/calendar.html)

The Colours setting on a page.

### [Saved event editor](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/saved-event-editor.html)

Where tags and colours are set on an event.

### [Managing events on Confluence calendars](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/managing-events-on-confluence-calendars.html)

More guides for events.

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