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Events saved inside a calendar are authored in a modal with five tabs: Scheduling, Additional, Attendees, Linked content and Tags. Fields cover name and priority, description and colour, dates, attendees, content links, tags, which calendar it belongs to, and additional information.

#Where you do it

Edit Event dialog with name, priority, description, colour, all-day toggle, timezone and start and end fields, above a scheduling tab comparing London and New York times.
Below the fields, the times are restated in your own zone and in the event's, so a cross-country booking can be checked before it is saved.
The Edit Event dialog for an event named Weekly Standup, with fields for priority, description, colour, all day, timezone and start and end times, and the Tags tab open showing a label picker listing
Name, priority, colour and the date range sit above the tabs, and tags are chosen from the calendar's own list.

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

Control which period the calendar opens on

Calendar macro config, or Calendar Configuration panel → Start on

#Settings that affect this

The calendar configuration dialog on the Tags tab, listing Red, Blue and Green tags with drag handles and edit and delete controls, a new tag being named, and a preset colour swatch picker open below.
Tags are defined once on the calendar, each with a colour, and their order sets their priority.

Setting

Where

What it does

Base Timezone

Calendar Configuration panel

"Set the timezone by which events are co-ordinated. Note that events are shown in the timezone of the user viewing the calendar." In practice it pre-fills the event create/edit form only. The grid always draws events in

In-calendar Events

Calendar Configuration panel → Events

"Show in-calendar user made events". The events people create and save inside this calendar.

Native page dates

Calendar Configuration panel → Events

"Show events from date macros on pages". Confluence's own date chips scraped off the calendar's source pages.

#Worth knowing

An event dialog headed Number 89 with a medium priority marker, a London timezone and an all day range from 8 to 9 July, empty attendees, linked content and tags panels, and Delete, download, Edit and
Opening a saved event shows its dates, attendees, linked content and tags read-only, with a download button that saves that one event as a file.

  • Two documented behaviours are silent failures that must survive into published docs: the macro overflow menu's Export → iCal and CSV items do nothing at all, and selecting no event types shows all of them rather than none.

  • The double-conversion bug in Event macro time formatting is a real defect, not designed behaviour. It should be written up as a known issue, not as expected output.

#Limits that apply here

  • Event macro title

  • Saved event name

  • Saved event description

  • Saved event text

  • Saved event tag

  • Saved event priority

How it actually behaves.