Preserve upstream connection when a connected node is copied

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Just adding here a link to the mentioned post by @EvanB, which I believe is item (1) in the below:

Announcing KNIME Analytics Platform 5.4

Hey all. I want to provide a few suggestions for KNIME AP. UI Suggestions… When copying/pasting nodes or collections of nodes, can the upstream connections be preserved? I have to do this a lot when creating custom analytics where I need to make tweaks to intermediate nodes but need to keep the same general structure, and looping will not work due to structural changes in the data. When inside a Metanode, I am unable to drag from the in-port of the metanode start to create another node.…