How Confluence dates on a page become events

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A date in a paragraph makes one event running from the earliest to the latest date in that paragraph; @-mentions in the same paragraph become participants and the remaining paragraph text becomes the title. A table row containing dates makes one event running from the earliest to the latest date in the row; mentions in the row become participants and the title is the first cell that is not itself a date or a mention. Dates inside action items and decision items also become events. Titles are trimmed to 255 characters, and a date with no usable surrounding text is titled "Unknown".

#Where you do it

A chip wrapped in a decision or a task still produces an event, and the item type travels with it to the calendar.
Confluence editor showing a date chip reading 21 Nov 2024 with the date picker open on November 2024.
A date chip is inserted with Confluence's own date picker, so a page needs no Capable macro before a calendar can read it.
The words sitting beside the chip become the event title, and the person mentioned in the same paragraph becomes a participant.

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

Hide specific dates from the grid

Calendar macro config → Content tab → Hidden on-page events

#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

How it actually behaves.