# Byline is missing everywhere, or in one space

**What you are seeing**

The byline is missing everywhere, or in one space.

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## 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.

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## 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.

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## 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 |

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## Limits that apply here

| **Limit**                     | **Value** | **What happens**                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| ----------------------------- | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Content property cap of 32 KB | \-        | 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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## Related

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[Something is missing or looks wrongThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/git/something-is-missing-or-looks-wrong.html)

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