Who can create and edit events

Permission comes from Confluence content permissions on the calendar itself. The server re-checks the viewer's read/update/delete rights on the calendar record on every request, and the app disables creation and raises a message when the check fails. Built-in calendars are read-only by construction.


#Where you do it

A global Capable calendar in month view for March 2026 with a green plus sign on an empty day.
Hovering an empty day offers a plus sign to start an event, and it is offered only while the permission check on the calendar passes.
Create Event dialog with name, priority, description, all-day toggle, timezone, start and end, additional information and attendee fields, and a preset colour palette open beside the colour swatch.
Once the click lands, the dialog asks for a name, a priority, dates, a colour and anyone who should attend.

Task

Where

Point a page calendar at a shared, saved calendar

Calendar macro config → Content tab → Source

Hide specific dates from the grid

Calendar macro config → Content tab → Hidden on-page events

Create a saved, shared calendar

Calendar page → catalogue → create a calendar (or "Create new calendar" from the macro's Source picker)


#Settings that affect this

Setting

Where

What it does

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

Base Timezone

Calendar Configuration panel

"Set the timezone by which events are co-ordinated. Note that events are shown in the timezone of the user viewing the calendar." In practice it pre-fills the event create/edit form only. The grid always draws events in

In-calendar Events

Calendar Configuration panel → Events

"Show in-calendar user made events". The events people create and save inside this calendar.


#Worth knowing

  • The Base Timezone setting's own on-screen description tells users events are shown in the viewer's timezone.



How it actually behaves.