Is there a way to publish a content without one or more required properties? I'm using the EditorModelEventManager to edit the properties of a content before they are loaded into the content edit view.

    public class EditorModelEvents
    {
        public void EditorModelEventManager_SendingContentModel(HttpActionExecutedContext sender, EditorModelEventArgs<ContentItemDisplay> e)
        {
            if (e.Model.ContentTypeAlias == Constants.MyPageAlias)
            {
                //RemoveValidation(e.Model, Constants.MyPropertyAlias);
                RemoveProperty(e.Model, Constants.MyPropertyAlias);
            }
        }

        private void RemoveProperty(ContentItemDisplay content, string propertyAlias)
        {
            foreach (var variant in content.Variants)
                foreach (var tab in variant.Tabs)
                    tab.Properties = tab.Properties.Where(x => x.Alias != propertyAlias);
        }

        private void RemoveValidation(ContentItemDisplay content, string propertyAlias)
        {
            foreach (var variant in content.Variants)
            {
                var property = GetProperty(variant, propertyAlias);
                if (property != null)
                {
                    property.Validation.Mandatory = false;
                    property.Validation.Pattern = null;
                }
            }
        }
    } 

With the RemoveValidation method I am able to skip the validation of properties set as mandatory and publish the content without even setting a value. The downside of using this method is that the properties are still visible to the user.

However, if I remove the property from the ContentItemDisplay model with the RemoveProperty method, the content is saved correctly but some validation is performed and the publish action fails: "{content name} could not be published because some properties did not pass validation rules".

Is there something that I can do to publish the content bypassing the property validation?