Extended Notifications - Custom Scenario

Hello all,
i want to create a custom scenario. When i start transaction swnconfig and move to the scenario view and click new entry i have to select a category. The categories are linked to the scenarios already existing. But my new sceanrio has no category assigned yet so im stuck...
I need a new sceanrio, as i have to create a new handler class and dont want to interfere with the standard sceanrio "STANDARD".
Any ideas?
regards,
Markus

Hello Jocelyn,
thx for the quick answer. The problem i have is, when i do click "New entries" and add a new category i get an error.
E.g.: I add as a new scenario "ZNEWSCEN". As the new category i add "ZNEWCAT". When i press enter i get an error message "Entry ZNEWSCEN ZNEWCAT doesnt exists in SWN_CATEGORY."
When i use transaction SWNADMIN to create a new category, this will be created for the standard scenario "Workflow".... u see, im stuck...
Why i need a new scenario is because we use a personal profile for each employee (custom ESS sceanrio) where the employee can determin whether he want to get notification emails or not. I found the Method "IF_SWN_SCENARIO~RETRIEVE_NOTIFICATIONS" of the respective handler class perfect for this issue. All i have to do there is to determine the actual agent and check whether he want to receive a notification or not. If yes, the notification will be send back to the method-caller, if not, then not.
regards,
Markus
P.S.: we are on NW04 SP17

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