Using End Edit Silent and Showing Updated Field Values

Question

I have an event processor similar to this. I was originally passing in true for the parameter silent to Item.Editing.EndEdit(bool silent). I figured that this programmatic change wouldn't need to change things like the updated by field or anything else that should normally change when a content editor is editing an item. This ended up causing the value to not show up updated until a save even ran on that item again or the app pool refreshed.

Is there a way to use the silent parameter but have updated values show in the content editor right away? Is setting this parameter to true dangerous in any way if I expect two specific fields to be updated by my code and nothing else?

Answer 1

Avoid setting silent to true. It'll cause all kinds of strange things. It looks like you're looking at setting updateStatistics to false:

item.Editing.EndEdit(false, false);