Turned off "Confluence Date macros", but dates inside action items still appear
What you are seeing
I turned off "Confluence Date macros", but dates inside action items still appear.
#Why it happens
The action-item branch of the date reader does not honour that switch. Only paragraphs, table rows and standalone date chips do.
#What to do
Remove the date from the action item, or hide that specific event with "Hidden on-page events".
#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. 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 |
Hide the Calendar capability site-wide | Confluence settings → Capable → Capabilities | Removes Calendar across the whole site. Suite only. The standalone Capable Calendar app has no Capabilities tab, even though its byline still reads the same setting. |
#Limits that apply here
Limit | Value | What happens |
|---|---|---|
iCal feed window | - | Events outside this rolling window never reach a subscriber's calendar app, even though they render fine inside Confluence. |
#Related
Several dates in one paragraph (or one table row) turned into a single event instead of several
By design, a paragraph or a table row makes one event running from the earliest to the lat
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
Everything else
The rest of this family.
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