To start a manual build,
You can specify that a plan should only ever be built manually or triggered by other builds. This is useful for:
- Broken builds:
If a build is broken, you may want to temporarily specify 'manual & dependent builds only'. This means that a failing build will not be triggered frequently and hence will not take up time and processing power when other builds could be running.
- Dependent builds:
If you specify that a build should run when another build successfully finishes, you may want to prevent it from running at other times. You can achieve this by specifying 'manual & dependent builds only'.
To specify 'manual & dependent builds only',
- Click 'Home' to go to the Dashboard.
- Click the 'All Plans' tab.
- Locate the plan in the list and click this icon:

- The 'Configuration' tab will be displayed. Click the 'Source Repository' sub-tab.
- In the 'Build Strategy' field, select 'Manual & dependent builds only' (see screenshot below).
- 「保存」ボタンをクリックします。
Screenshot: 'Plan Configuration--Source Repository-Build Strategy: Manual builds only'