When in Experience Editor making changes to some fields, such as a multilist that could control a rendering of items to show, do not reflect on the page until it is saved. This can be confusing and cumbersome for content editors.
Is there a way to force a save and refresh when editing these items in Experience Editor to make the content editing experience better?
I wrote a blog post on this a while ago: http://www.flux-digital.com/blog/refreshing-experience-page-editor-after-using-edit-frames-or-buttons/
One word of caution though, we did see some odd issues caused by this firing and causing a save on components where it wasn't needed. So I'd suggest perhaps checking your templates(s) before firing the save, something like the following (not tested):
if (item != null)
{
if(item.TemplateID == MyTemplateIds.MyBannerTemplate.ID){
item.Editing.BeginEdit();
item.Fields[fieldInfo.FieldID.ToString()].Value = str1;
item.Editing.EndEdit();
}
}
I'll update the blog post at some point to include info on this but Let me know if you find a better way of doing this or if this works for you.
