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 than the one you are editing. Typically after copying a page that carries the macro, before the copy is reconciled.

#What to do

Reconfigure the macro on the copied page and save the content afresh, so a new document is created under this page.

#Settings involved

Setting

Where

What it does

Global settings → Capabilities → Markdow

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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

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Markdown is not on the tab's exclusion list, so the tab ships.

There is no Markdown-specific settings t

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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.

#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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