"Dates" column and the Calendar panel badge in Capable Search show fewer dates than the page has

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What you are seeing

The "Dates" column and the Calendar panel badge in Capable Search show fewer dates than the page has.

#Why it happens

Those two read the page without the app identifiers needed to recognise Capable Event macros, so they count only Confluence's own dates. The page byline, which does pass them, counts both.

#What to do

Trust the byline count for the true total.

#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 (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 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

#Limits that apply here

Limit

Value

What happens

Pages from search source

-

Dates on pages beyond the limit simply do not appear, with no warning.

Date search index

-

First date, last date and the mentioned-user list are always recorded; only the list of individual dates is capped.

Indexed date search results

-

Also skipped entirely until the calendar has reported a real visible date range.

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