Licence states
Licensing is a single boundary around the whole app, macros included. There is no grace period and no read-only mode: either the app is licensed or it shows a licence panel.
Seat-level behaviour is different and much softer, and it is the one that affects your readers.
#Licence states
State | What people see |
|---|---|
Licensed | Everything works |
No licence | A yellow "License Not Found" panel, with Manage Apps and View on Marketplace links |
Trial expired | A red "Trial expired" panel, with the same links |
Licence expired | A red "License expired" panel, with the same links |
There is no grace period and no read-only mode. When a licence lapses, the panels appear immediately. Content is not deleted, but it stops rendering through Capable macros.
#Viewers without a seat
Viewers with no seat, and logged-out visitors on public pages, see a static "Powered by Capable" notice on three surfaces only: the Capable byline, the global page and the space page.
Macros keep rendering real content for them. Their reading experience is intact.
The notice appears on the Capable surfaces themselves, not on your pages.
This is what makes public spaces and published sites work for anonymous readers.
#When a macro needs a signed-in reader
A few macros need something only a signed-in person has, such as a fetch through Capable's service or an AI feature. For a logged-out visitor, that one part of the macro is replaced by a short notice, such as Sign in to view this diagram, and everything around it still renders. A signed-in person who lacks access to the content sees You do not have permission to view instead, never a sign-in prompt.
A handful of surfaces are never shown to logged-out visitors at all, because they only make sense for a person: approval actions and banners, the approvals waiting for you, and authoring tools that insert other macros.
#The free app
Capable Search is a free app with licensing switched off entirely. It never shows these panels.
#A few things that catch people out
A lapsed licence stops macros rendering, which looks exactly like a broken migration if you are also mid-migration. Check the licence first.
Automatic heading re-sync rides a licence-filtered event, so it stops working on an unlicensed site.
Nothing is deleted when a licence lapses. Re-licensing restores rendering.
A Confluence guest is a signed-in person, not an anonymous visitor, so guests never see a sign-in notice.
#Related
No grace period. But readers keep reading.
