Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook

One-way, read-only subscription by personal iCal feed link, with one-click hand-off buttons for each.


#Worth knowing

Read-only in one direction. Changes made in the external app never come back to Confluence.


#Where you do it

Task

Where

Show the dates already on a page as a calendar

Page editor → insert "Calendar (Capable)" (Suite) or "Calendar macro (Capable)" (standalone)

Point a page calendar at a shared, saved calendar

Calendar macro config → Content tab → Source

Choose the view the macro opens in

Calendar macro config → Content tab → View


#Settings that affect this

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

Indexed date search results

-

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

My Calendar sources

-

-

Saved event reads

-

Large calendars are drained page by page, so they issue many round trips and show a load progress bar.



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