---
title: "Channels"
id: "1811"
type: "page"
slug: "channels"
published_at: "2026-09-20T22:08:59+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-09-21T01:36:28+00:00"
url: "https://xedant.com/agents/telegram/docs/channels"
markdown_url: "https://xedant.com/agents/telegram/docs/channels.md"
excerpt: "The Channels section is where you manage your Telegram channels: connecting, publishing settings, post templates…"
---

# Channels

[https://xedant.com/agents/telegram/docs/channels.md](https://xedant.com/agents/telegram/docs/channels.md)

The Channels section is where you manage your Telegram channels: connecting, publishing settings, post templates and history. A channel can be connected in two ways — through a bot or through a personal account.

## Connecting through a bot

Pick a bot from the list of registered ones (tokens are created in @BotFather and verified automatically), enter the channel’s @name — and that is it. The bot must be an administrator of the channel with the right to publish posts: if a permission is missing, the application tells you exactly which permission is missing in which channel before saving anything. The channel’s data — title, description, photo, subscriber count — is pulled from Telegram automatically.

## Connecting through a personal account

Pick a connected personal account — the application shows the list of channels where you are the owner or an administrator, with a label and the subscriber count. Several can be connected at once by checking them in the list. Each channel is connected once: trying to connect it a second way asks you to disconnect the old connection first; reconnecting the same way simply refreshes the channel’s data.

## The channel page

Every channel has its own page: photo, title, @name and a button that refreshes the data from Telegram. The tabs are Overview, Timeline, Analytics, Schedule, Queue, Content and Settings; the full-screen post editor opens for writing and editing. While the page is open it refreshes itself: new posts and numbers appear without a reload.

## Channel settings

- **Time zone** — an IANA list; the schedule slot times and the estimated publishing dates are computed in it;
- **Auto-publishing** — on/off: when on, the first post from the slot’s queue is published by itself the moment the slot arrives;
- **Silent by default** — publish without the notification sound for subscribers;
- **Auto-pin** — pin the last published post, optionally with a pin lifetime.

Settings save immediately as you change them — there is no Save button to look for.

## Post templates

For a consistent publishing style, a channel can have templates: a prefix, a suffix and hashtags. Templates are created, edited and deleted on the Settings tab.

## Channel content

The Content tab is the channel’s post history: a filter by status and date, sorting by date or views, statistics (total posts, average views, posts per week). Separately there is the channel history import — up to 500 posts: it is available only for channels connected through a personal account, and it loads past publications with their views. A single post can be refreshed on its own — the application re-reads its text and the fresh view count from Telegram.

## Disconnecting and deleting

Disconnecting frees the connection to Telegram, but the historical data stays in place. Deleting removes the channel together with all the collected data — settings, slots, templates, imported posts — and is irreversible, so the application asks for a confirmation.

## What is next

How to write and publish posts is in the [Publishing](/agents/telegram/docs/publishing)
 section, how to set the schedule in [Scheduling](/agents/telegram/docs/scheduling)
, how the content path works in the [Content Queue](/agents/telegram/docs/queue)
, and how to read the channel’s numbers in [Analytics](/agents/telegram/docs/analytics)
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