When you made that part active you changed the Design Rep therefore you will need to turn the visibility back off.
A view representation is a saved assembly file display that is created by setting component visibility, color, whether or not the component is enabled, view magnification, and view angle.
When you turn off visibility in a design rep, your design intent is not to see it. If your design intent is to edit parts you should have a different design rep for that purpose.
As for the in-place editing, what do you want to edit?
C Bashor
Technical Engineer - Advanced Solutions, Inc