# Freshly inserted macro sits on a placeholder for a long time before showing content

**What you are seeing**

A freshly inserted macro sits on a placeholder for a long time before showing content.

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## Why it happens

The document exists but has not been indexed yet, so the macro retries every 15 seconds up to 10 times. About two and a half minutes.

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## What to do

Wait, then refresh the page. If it never resolves, reopen the macro config and save the content again.

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## Settings involved

| **Setting**                              | **Where** | **What it does**                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| ---------------------------------------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Global settings → Capabilities → Markdow | \-        | Hiding Markdown removes it from the Capable nav bar and the content byline menu across the site (app property capable-global-hidden-capabilities). It does NOT stop existing macros from rendering. |
| Global settings → Migration              | \-        | Markdown is not on the tab's exclusion list, so the tab ships.                                                                                                                                      |
| There is no Markdown-specific settings t | \-        | It contributes only a byline, query actions, an asset browser, a Search panel, a custom content renderer, migrators and the two macros. Every switch above is a shared Capable settings surface.    |

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## Limits that apply here

| **Limit**                                | **Value**                                | **What happens**                                                                                                                                                   |
| ---------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Large-document scroll mode               | 500,000 characters                       | Past this the document macro shows '⚠️ Large content detected. Rendering in scrollable mode.' and renders inside a fixed 1200px-high scroll box instead of inline. |
| Virtualised rendering threshold          | 500,000 chars ; 1,000,000 chars (large p | Above the threshold the document is chunked (400 lines or 60,000 characters per chunk, fences kept intact) and only visible chunks are rendered.                   |
| Macro title and description input length | 50 characters each                       | The macro config's 'Markdown title' and 'Markdown description' fields and the from-scratch editor's title field all stop at 50 characters.                         |

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## Related

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[Filled in 'Markdown description' in the macro config, was warned about unsaved changes, saved, and tThe save path never passes the description through, even though the underlying store accep](https://help.gocapable.com/markdown/filled-in-markdown-description-in-the-macro-config-was-warned-about-unsaved-changes-saved-and-t.html)

[Everything elseThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/markdown/everything-else.html)

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