A feed, phrase or follow automation can route its messages into a forum topic of its group, instead of General.
The three kinds
Topic kinds
| Kind | Dashboard label | What lands there |
|---|---|---|
| Alerts | follow: New Follower Alerts · feed: New Post Alerts · phrase: Matching Post Alerts | Every announce and, for feed/phrase, the recap. |
| Lists | Follower Lists (follow only) | Follower-list messages and the JSON file. |
| Achievements | Performance Achievements (follow only) | Not used by X automations. |
A kind left unset routes to the group's General.
How the bot knows a topic
The bot learns a topic's name when it sees the topic created, renamed, or posted in. To check an id it hasn't seen, it posts a message into that topic and deletes it right away; if Telegram refuses, the topic doesn't exist. Topic id 1 is General.
The Topics popup lists every topic the bot has seen for the group ("tap one to use it"), or you can type a topic id and let the popup check it.
The popup also says whether topics are turned on in the group. Routing only works when they are.
When a topic is missing
No fallback to General
A topic that no longer exists — deleted, or never valid — does not fall back to General. The message fails and nothing reaches the group.
Nothing tells the owner; the post is not retried.
Re-point the automation at a valid topic, or clear it back to General, in the Topics popup.
Setting a topic
The Topics button — a speech-bubble icon, next to Edit — on each automation's card opens the popup for that automation: the group's title, a dropdown of the kinds the automation offers, and the current topic for each kind with a clear control.
Set a topic for one automation
- Open the automation's card and click the Topics button.
- Pick a kind from the dropdown — the kinds offered depend on the automation's type.
- Tap a topic from "Topics the bot has seen", or type its id.
- Repeat for any other kind.
- Save.
Set topics for every follow tracker in one group at once
- Click the gear icon ("Group topic settings") next to the automations list.
- Pick Follow Tracker — the only type this flow covers.
- Pick the group, from the forum groups that already contain a follow tracker.
- Assign kinds as above, or click "Clear topic settings" to reset them all.
- Save.