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To start a manual build,

Click 'Home' to go to the Dashboard.
Locate the relevant plan and click the 'Check Out and Build' icon:
See also 1.4.3 Stopping an Active Build.

You can specify that a plan should only ever be built manually. This is useful for:

Broken builds:

If a build is broken, you may want to temporarily specify 'manual 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 builds only'.

To specify 'manual 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 builds only' (see screenshot below).
Click the 'Save' button.

Screenshot: 'Plan Configuration--Source Repository-Build Strategy: Manual builds only'

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