What Capable Calendar is

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Capable Calendar turns the dates already living on your Confluence pages into real calendars, and adds shared, saveable calendars of its own.

Here’s what you get:

  • three page macros

    • Calendar

    • Clock

    • Event

  • a full Calendar page where you create and manage saved calendars

  • a page byline showing how many dates a page contains (hidden when there are none)

  • a Confluence dashboard widget that lists the upcoming events you’re assigned to

  • a Capable Search panel and column that show dates from pages (suite only)

Capable Calendar page with My calendar selected, space and global calendars listed on the left and an October month view on the right
The Calendar page. Your saved calendars sit in the left sidebar, grouped into space and global calendars, and the selected one opens on the right.

Events come from three sources:

  • Capable Event macros on pages

  • Confluence's own date chips on pages (in paragraphs, table rows, task items and decision items)

  • events saved inside a Capable calendar

Want your events in Google, Apple or Outlook too? Every signed-in user can create a personal, read-only iCal subscription link that follows a saved calendar. Confluence administrators can see and revoke all of these links from a global settings tab.

Calendar macro selected in the Confluence editor, showing a September 2025 month grid of coloured event bars and the macro toolbar
Dropped on a page, the Calendar macro shows its events in place. Switch between its five views with the buttons at the top right.

#A few things worth knowing

  • The By Page colour mode isn’t available on the Calendar macro, but you can choose it in a saved calendar’s Color Scheme setting.

  • Two things can catch you out. The Export → iCal and CSV options in the Calendar macro’s overflow menu don’t do anything at the moment, so use an iCal subscription link to follow a saved calendar instead. And if you select no event types, you’ll see all of them rather than none.

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