# Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook

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

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## Worth knowing

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

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## 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                                                   |

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## 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 |

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## 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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## Related

[External .ics filesAnother connection.](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/external-ics-files.html)

[Capable ApprovalAnother connection.](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/capable-approval.html)

[IntegrationsEvery connection.](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/integrations.html)

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