Saving a macro fails with 'Unable to save changes as the loaded markdown is not associated with the

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What you are seeing

Saving a macro fails with 'Unable to save changes as the loaded markdown is not associated with the current page'.

#Why it happens

The stored document belongs to a different page from the one you are editing. This typically happens after you copy a page that carries the macro, before the copy has been sorted out.

#What to do

Reconfigure the macro on the copied page and save the content afresh. That creates a new document under this page.

#Settings involved

Setting

Where

What it does

Global settings → Capabilities → Markdown

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Hiding Markdown removes it from the Capable nav bar and the content byline menu across the site. It does not stop existing macros from showing.

Global settings → Migration

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Markdown is not excluded from the Migration tab, so it appears there.

There is no Markdown-specific settings tab

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Markdown adds a byline entry, an asset browser, a Search panel and the two macros. Every switch above is a shared Capable setting.

#Limits that apply here

Limit

Value

What happens

Large-document scroll mode

500,000 characters

Past this the document shows '⚠️ Large content detected. Rendering in scrollable mode.' and sits inside a fixed-height scroll box instead of showing in full.

Very large documents

500,000 characters

Above this the document is split into sections and only the ones on screen are drawn.

Macro title and description length

50 characters each

The 'Markdown title' and 'Markdown description' fields in the macro config, and the title field in the from-scratch editor, all stop at 50 characters.

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