Force drag and drop behaviour on none touched sprite

I'm doing an inventory and want to drag objects out of a static placeholder slot. Without changing much of my code, I would like to spawn an object with drag-and-drop behaviour and force it to start dragging in the same event. Currently, I can't get it to do that without doing a second touch.

The only way I see is to change the setup to a is touching event and have a bunch of variables to check for multi-touch on other items.

I feel like this was an option in C2, might be wrong.

If you want to duplicate the dragged sprite, you can just create a copy of the sprite in the slot.

Another option is to use an invisible sprite for dragging, and you can attach anything to it with hierarchy or Pin behavior.