You can try below strategy

• Introduce a new boolean field, based on which you will decide that you have to set auditing values manually or automatically.
• The new field will be @Transient, which will indicate that the field is not to be persisted.
• Write a CustomAuditingEntityListener that will extends the a AuditingListener class.
• In the custom listener you can override touhForCreate and touchForUpdate methods, as per your requirements.