Be able to replace and update obsolete components in some easy way

Now that the FF 4.0 is going on the works, it would be good to be able to have some old filters that are great and very useful BUT that have some possible problems with the new version that could be able to have some way to replace or upd ate old obsolete components of some old filters with the new versions and so be able to solve some problems.

As it is now there is no easy way to do it, and it is many times a tedious, boring and complex thing to do, specially on complex filters where this old components is already attached to many others components, and the only way I see to replace it is to put the new component and rebuild all the complex mesh of links with the other components, AND also you have to copy and modify the settings of the replaced component so it has the same settings as the old one, so after this, is not something that you would like to do often.

Would be great if there could be a way where you could:

1 - select a component and then after select an option where could be for example "upd ate component version" and then it would replace the old one with the new version and keeping the same links to others components and it´s own se ttings.

2 - Select the new version component fr om the components menu and drag and drop it over the old obsolete version of the same component and so then it would replace the old one with the new version and keeping the same links to others components and it´s own settings.

3 - An automatic way to update all the old components of any filter you may choose

4 - or any other possible way that could be for replacing old obsolete components.

This is not a new feature request and this has been already been in the feature wishlist since 2006

Replace Module. in 2006

Update Obsolete Component Option in 2007