New and Improved Calendars for Confluence

Launching today, Capable Calendars for Confluence is the easiest way to align your projects and your calendars!

You already have a team. Your teams already use Confluence — your single source of truth for project pages: marketing plans, website content, internal guides, external documentation, and everything in between.

But while your project plans live neatly within Confluence, the crucial dates that guide them often live elsewhere: Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, personal calendars. This split causes a dangerous disconnect.

Every project has start dates, deadlines, and milestones. Meanwhile, your team members are juggling leave schedules, out-of-office notifications, and in-office days. Without a single, unified calendar, you're left with broken links, missed deadlines, and general confusion.

If you update a project timeline in Confluence, your external calendars don't know. If someone's holiday overlaps with a critical milestone, your project plan remains oblivious.

Until now.

Introducing Capable Calendars for Confluence

Imagine if your project dates and your team’s availability lived side-by-side — dynamically updating, visible at a glance, and centrally managed. Capable Calendars for Confluence makes that vision a reality.

Now, important dates can be entered directly into a calendar inside Confluence. Better still, the calendar can automatically draw dates from your Confluence pages. The result? A shared calendar view showing not only your own dates, but your entire team's project schedules.

The moment a date changes on a page, it updates the calendar. No more missed updates. No more broken chains.

Fine-Grained Control: Keep Focus, Reduce Noise

We know that when it comes to calendar management, one size does not fit all. Capable Calendars gives you fine-grained control over event visibility, ensuring that your team sees only the dates relevant to them.

You can create multiple calendars, each with its own settings and visibility preferences. Whether you need a high-level overview for leadership or a detailed sprint calendar for developers, Capable Calendars has you covered.

Choose between:

Space Calendars: Only visible within a specific Confluence space.

Global Calendars: Visible across your entire Confluence site.

Real-World Examples

Regional Social Media Planning:

Suppose your marketing team manages posts across different regions. Now, you can create a Space Calendar just for German social media posts, with its timezone set accordingly. Even UK-based colleagues will see exactly when a post is scheduled to go live in Germany - in German Timezone - no mental gymnastics required.

Access is limited to the marketing space, keeping sensitive regional plans private and focused.

Company-Wide Holiday Schedules:

Meanwhile, HR can create a Global Calendar to track company leave. It's visible site-wide, so everyone from engineering to customer support can quickly see who’s out of the office, helping with resource planning.

Whether it's Germany-specific marketing events or company-wide holidays, Capable Calendars ensures the right people see the right information.

Personalised Views: Stay Organised, Your Way

Capable Calendars isn't just about what you see; it's about how you see it.

You can tailor your calendar view to match your working style:

• View Modes: Choose from Day, Week, Month, Year, and Agenda views.
• Display Options: Opt to display page titles and user avatars directly in listings.
• Colour Coding: Colour code events by user, page, or event type for at-a-glance clarity.

Switch from a month-overview to a day-focused deep dive with a single click. Customise your layout until your schedule works for you.

Effortless Scheduling: Click, Create, Collaborate

Creating a date on your calendar is now as simple as clicking.

In Month View, click the desired day. In Day View, click the specific hour. Enter a title, description, assign users, choose a colour — all in seconds.

Need to adjust a timeframe? Simply click and drag the event listing across dates. Hovering over an event gives you a quick peek at the details — no more opening new tabs or digging through pages.

Intelligent Integration: Dates That Pull Themselves Together

For those of you already plotting out dates within Confluence pages — rejoice. Our Calendars tool can pull in dates directly from your Confluence content.

Project managers, for instance, can create detailed project plans with assigned dates and users on a page. By linking that page to a calendar, every date and event will populate automatically.

Better yet, you can link multiple pages to one calendar. Colour code events by page to track complex, cross-functional projects easily. No more manually duplicating events across systems.

Embedding Calendars: Visibility Where It Matters

Need to showcase a project timeline within a Confluence page? Simply use the Calendar Macro.

Embed calendars into any page, with all the same view modes as the dashboard. Whether you're preparing a project overview for stakeholders or a sprint schedule for developers, you can present timelines in the format that fits the audience best.

Stay Up-to-Date: Built-In Dashboard Views

Sometimes you just need to catch up quickly. Capable Calendars comes with powerful dashboard integration, offering ready-to-go calendar views:

• Mentions Calendar: See dates linked to tasks where you're mentioned.
• Recently Viewed Pages Calendar: Quickly reference important dates from your recently visited pages.

No more hunting around — just instant insight.

Why Capable Calendars Is a Game-Changer

By merging your projects and calendars inside Confluence, we're solving the disconnect that has plagued team coordination for too long.

Benefits at a glance:

• Live synchronisation between project dates and calendars.
• Customisable views for teams and individuals.
• Fine-grained access control between spaces and globally.
• Effortless event creation and date management.
• Direct linkage to Confluence page content.
• Full visibility right where you work — no extra apps needed.

With Capable Calendars, you’re not just managing dates; you're orchestrating success.

Capable Calendars for Confluence is available now. Whether as a standalone app or part of the Capable All-In-One Suite, this new tool brings clarity, coordination, and calm to your project planning.

Want to learn more? Explore our full documentation or book a demo with our product experts.