When using FME Desktop, the "Run" button is always enabled, allowing a user to potentially run a workspace at any time, and therefore overwrite data at any time. While the "Redirect to FME Data Inspector" option is available for Writers in a workspace, that does not disable all transformers, including Executors and FeatureWriters.
This idea is proposing a "Disable Run" option for the entire workspace, allowing a user to toggle on/off the ability to run a workspace. An additional functionality is to allow an author to "Lock" the "Disable Run", therefore if the workspace is opened by a colleague (or other unauthorized user) the workspace will not run unless the enabled.