# 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.

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## 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.

![A Confluence page showing an unchecked action item that reads 11 Mar 2026, Build the fort, followed by a mention of a named user.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/885ccbac-115e-4cab-804f-116fd2fcfc25.webp)

A date sitting inside an action item still carries the mention and the surrounding text with it.

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## What to do

Remove the date from the action item, or hide that specific event with "Hidden on-page events".

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## 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.                                                        |

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## 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. |

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

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