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

**What you are seeing**

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

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## Why it happens

By design, a paragraph or a table row makes one event running from the earliest to the latest date in it.

![A Confluence page table with Task, Description, Start Date and End Date columns and three rows, each carrying a pair of date chips a week apart.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/90bb5a4f-d9b6-4c94-98bf-3c1ef8fb3302.webp)

Each row here holds a start and an end date, so the pair is read as the span of one event rather than two.

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## What to do

Put each date in its own paragraph or row, or use an Event macro per date.

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## Settings involved

| **Setting**                    | **Where**                                             | **What it does**                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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 |
| 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.                                                                                                                |
| Pages from search              | Calendar Configuration panel → Pages                  | "Search for pages to include". Every page the search returns is scanned for dates. Filters and limit are disabled until the toggle is on.                                                                                    |

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## Limits that apply here

| **Limit**                | **Value** | **What happens**                                                                                                    |
| ------------------------ | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Pages from search source | \-        | Dates on pages beyond the limit simply do not appear, with no warning.                                              |
| Date search index        | \-        | First date, last date and the mentioned-user list are always recorded; only the list of individual dates is capped. |

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## Related

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[Everything elseThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/calendar/everything-else.html)

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