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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 Stopping an Active 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).
Click the 'Save' button.

Screenshot: 'Plan Configuration--Source Repository-Build Strategy: Manual builds only'
Bamboo 2.3 > Triggering a Build Manually > bamboo-trigger-manualdependent.png

Bamboo 2.3 > Triggering a Build Manually > bamboo-trigger-manualdependent.png