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Can i update a list item without affecting the Modified By and Modified Date

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Posted on 12 Sep 2024 22:35:51 by 1,486 Super User 2024 Season 1

I have a custom list named WorkOrders inside our SharePoint online tenant. now this custom list contain around 10K items. and i want to do some modifications to existing list items, as follow:-

 

1- I want to add a new custom column named Media.

2- Based on some calculation from another list i want to update this custom column Media.

 

but the ModifiedBy and Modified date for the work order items are important to us, and we do not want to affect those 2 fields when updating the new custom column.. so is there a way to update a list item without affecting the Modified By and Modified Date, by using:-


1) Built-in Update List Item action?
2) Using direct SharePoint Rest API?

any advice?

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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    38,415 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 13 Sep 2024 at 02:26:54
    Can i update a list item without affecting the Modified By and Modified Date
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    No, you cannot. Those are system managed columns so if you change it the modified date has to change for Compliance purposes. Trying to somehow avoid it etc would be a real issue for data compliancy

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