Several dates in one paragraph (or one table row) turned into a single event instead of several

What you are seeing

You put several dates in one paragraph, or in one table row, and expected an event for each. The calendar shows a single event instead, running from the earliest date to the latest.

#Why it happens

This is by design. A paragraph or a table row makes one event, running from the earliest to the latest date in it. That suits a project table with a start and an end date on each row, but not dates that are separate occasions.

#What to do

Give each date its own event in one of these ways:

Put each date in its own paragraph.
In a table, give each date its own row.
Add an Event macro for each date.

Event macro set up as an all day event, with title, date, time zone, options and accent colour settings beside a preview — The Event macro, shown under Capable → Macros → Event. Each Event macro has its own title and dates, so it shows as an event of its own.

#Settings involved

Setting	Where	What it does
Calendar capability visibility	Space settings → Capable → capability list → Calendar	Auto shows the Calendar byline only where it is relevant. In the Suite, that means pages Capable already knows carry dates. Always switches Calendar on for the space; Never hides it there.
Native page dates	Calendar Configuration panel → Events	"Show events from date macros on pages". Brings in Confluence's own date chips from the calendar's source pages.
Pages from search	Calendar Configuration panel → Pages	"Search for pages to include". Every page the search finds is checked for dates. The filter and limit stay greyed out until you switch this on.

Calendar settings dialog on the Events tab, with toggles for in calendar events, native page dates and Capable events — The Events tab. Native page dates brings in Confluence date chips, and Capable Events brings in Event macros.

#Limits that apply here

Limit	Value	What happens
Pages from search source	-	Dates on pages beyond the limit simply do not appear, and there is no warning.
Dates kept per page for search	-	The first date, the last date and the people mentioned are always kept. Only the list of every individual date on the page is capped.

Date chip on a line by itself never appears on any calendar

A date with no surrounding text is named "Unknown", and events named "Unknown" are filtere

Colleague in another country sees the event at a different time or on a different day

The grid always draws events in the viewer's own timezone. A calendar's "Base Timezone" on

Everything else

The rest of this family.

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