Byline is missing everywhere, or in one space

What you are seeing

The byline is missing everywhere, or in one space.


#Why it happens

Either an admin has hidden the capability site-wide via the hidden-capabilities app property, or the space has it in its always-off list. Unlicensed and logged-out readers also never see the byline, because that grant applies to the macro only.


#What to do

Check the site-wide hidden-capabilities list and the space's General settings tab. Note that hiding the capability does NOT stop existing GitHub macros from rendering.


#Settings involved

Setting

Where

What it does

Hide GitHub across the whole site

App property `capable-global-hidden-capabilities`, object name `hiddenCapabilities`, value

Hides the capability tenant-wide. IMPORTANT: this gates the BYLINE ONLY. The macro module has no display conditions, so hiding the capability does not stop existing GitHub macros from rendering on pages.

Turn GitHub on or off per space

Space property `<APP_HASH>_capable`, object name `capabilities.alwaysOff` / `capabilities.

AlwaysOff suppresses the byline in that space; alwaysOn shows it even on pages with no GitHub macro. Again, byline only. Macros still render.

Unlicensed and anonymous access

Not user-configurable

Granted on the MACRO module only, for both 'unlicensed' and 'anonymous'. So a reader outside the licence, or logged out entirely, still sees public file content in the degraded read-only branch. But gets no "Github" byli


#Limits that apply here

Limit

Value

What happens

Content property cap of 32 KB

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Confluence caps content property values at 32 KB. The trimmer empties the Capable content indexing macro-key list to get under 30,000 bytes. And that list is one of the byline's display conditions, so



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