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title: "Script an Extended Event Session | Microsoft Docs"
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# Script an Extended Event Session
  This topic describes how to script an event session. You can export, alter, or drop the event session, or drop and create the event session to the following:  
  
-   **New Query Editor Window**  
  
-   **File**  
  
-   **Clipboard**  
  
-   **Agent Job**  
  
### To script an existing event session  
  
1.  In Object Explorer, expand the **Management** node, and then expand **Extended Events**.  
  
2.  Right-click the session you want to script, point to **Script Session as**, point to **CREATE to**, and then select where you want to script the session.  
  
### To script a new event session  
  
1.  In Object Explorer, expand the **Management** node, and then expand **Extended Events**.  
  
2.  Right-click **Sessions**, and then click **New Session**.  
  
3.  In the **New Session** UI, create the event session, and then select where you want to script the event session from the **Script** drop-down list.  
  
### To script a modified event session  
  
1.  In Object Explorer, expand the **Management** node, and then expand **Extended Events**.  
  
2.  Right-click the session you want to modify, and then click **Properties**.  
  
3.  In the **Session Properties** dialog box, modify the event session, and then select where you want to script the modified session from the **Script** drop-down list.  
  
## See Also  
 [Extended Events](../relational-databases/extended-events/extended-events.md)