I like the idea of a button to put the status of a document into a "released" state to protect it from accidental modifications as it goes through the workflow of the business. However, consider the simple fact that the shipping for an item is not knowable at the time of writing the order because the items might need to be weighed to get the exact total of the shipping line. Consider then that a person in the fulfillment role will then try to add that shipping amount, get denied because the document is in a "Released" state. He will have to clear that warning, move the status back to "Open," make the modification and hopefully remember to move the order back to "Released" if it's not going to ship at that very moment (because if it remains in "Open," then the status moves that document back off the radar of the ones fulfilling the order.

We believe that there should be setup options that allow administrators to allow certain fields to be edited even when documents are in a "Released" status.