Date chip on a line by itself never appears on any calendar

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What you are seeing

A date chip on a line by itself never appears on any calendar.

#Why it happens

A date with no surrounding text is named "Unknown", and events named "Unknown" are filtered out everywhere.

#What to do

Add some text alongside the date, or use an Event macro, which always carries a title.

#Settings involved

Setting

Where

What it does

Calendar subscriptions

Confluence settings → Capable (Capable Calendar in the standalone app) → Features

"Let users subscribe to Capable calendars from Google, Apple, or Outlook via a personal iCal feed. Turn off to disable subscriptions for all users." Only appears when the installed app includes the Calendar capability. T

Calendar capability visibility

Space settings → Capable → capability list → Calendar

Auto shows the byline where relevant. In the Suite that means only on pages Capable has already indexed as carrying dates. Always forces Calendar on for the space; Never hides it there. This is the generic per-capability

Indexing tab

Confluence settings → Capable → Indexing

Where an administrator triggers or inspects content indexing. Indexing itself runs in both products; only the admin tab differs.

#Limits that apply here

Limit

Value

What happens

Specific pages source

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The picker disables itself and shows "Limit reached".

iCal feed window

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Events outside this rolling window never reach a subscriber's calendar app, even though they render fine inside Confluence.

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