Person removed from the space could still see the calendar feed for a while
What you are seeing
You removed someone from a space, but their calendar app kept showing that calendar's events for a while afterwards.
#Why it happens
A subscribed calendar app fetches the feed on its own schedule, and Capable re-checks the subscriber's Confluence permission at most once an hour. Until that check runs, the feed carries on as before, so someone you have just removed can keep seeing events for up to an hour.
#What to do
To cut access straight away, go to Confluence settings → Capable → Calendar, find that person's link in the Calendar subscriptions list and revoke it. Revoking is permanent, which is exactly what you want here.
#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. Turning it off stops new links being created. Links already handed out keep working until you revoke them. |
Calendar (global settings tab) | Confluence settings → Capable → Calendar | A card called "Calendar subscriptions" listing the personal iCal feed links your users have created, with user, calendar, status and created date. The list is paged with Previous and Next. Revoke links here. Only Confluence administrators can see the list. |
Calendar capability visibility | Space settings → Capable → capability list → Calendar | Auto shows the Calendar byline where it's relevant. In the Suite, that means only on pages Capable has already indexed as having dates. Always turns Calendar on for the space, and Never hides it there. It works the same way as the visibility setting for every other capability. |
#Related
Someone who should not have it has my feed URL
Anyone holding a feed link can read that calendar's events, so treat it like a password.
Turned off the "Calendar subscriptions" feature but existing links still work
The toggle only blocks creating new links; it does not revoke ones already handed out.
Everything else
The rest of this family.
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