Changing the permissions on Asset access also changed diagrams, markdown, calendar or search

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What you are seeing

Changing the permissions on Asset access also changed diagrams, markdown, calendar or search

#Why it happens

All Capable global assets share one Confluence custom-content type in one space. There is no images-only permission.

#What to do

This is expected. If you need finer control, keep the images that need different rules in a space library rather than the global one.

#Settings involved

Setting

Where

What it does

Global settings → Asset access (Permissi

Capable settings → Asset access

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Global settings → Egress

Capable settings → Egress

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Global image library space

Confluence space with the key CAPABLEASSETSTORE, named 'Capable Asset Store'

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#Limits that apply here

Limit

Value

What happens

Stored asset title length

50 characters

The filename is truncated when building the stored title.

Stored asset description length

250 characters

An Unsplash caption plus author credit can be cut mid-sentence.

Attached images sweep. Accepted file extensi

Jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, svg, webp, tif

AVIF, HEIC, ICO and JFIF attachments never appear. The sweep also excludes the CAPABLEASSETSTORE space, generated thumbnail files, and Capable's own library images.

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