Editing - Can I edit only attributes without displaying map?

[cristiBJ]

Is there a way to update the attributes, not geometry, without user clicking on map?
My service request system needs a lot of editing(follow up), I need an interface for users to just query that service request id, then
updates data. At this time we do not need map.

Currently, we can only edit by clicking on the feature layer, bring up infowindow, and applyedits. It is time-consuming and slow.
I am thinking about to query the SQLExpress database, but when I open the tables in SQLExpress, the data is not synchronized with the ArcMap data. 
I am stuck here. Who can help? Many Thanks.

[cristiBJ]

Can dBecker or MaxwellR share some code?  The sample code from ESRI site are based on-click event.

Thank you for the point. I went too far trying to compress the SDE geodatabase using a .sde connection file. The Python script ended up saying "The workspace is not the correct workspace type".   I am stuck here. I have spent days without progress.

[aubinmaynard]

I'm trying to do the same thing, so few examples to work from.  Can you share at least a bit O' code?