Admittedly, this is a different use case from the one described in the release announcement for GitLab 8.10, but I tried making a `.gitlab-ci.yml` file where there's a manual action as the only stage in a pipeline, and it didn't seem to cause any build or pipeline to appear in the UI at all, so there was nothing for me to click on to activate the manual action. The `.gitlab-ci.yml` file looks something like this: ``` nightly_build: stage: build only: - branches when: manual script: - ... artifacts: expire_in: ... paths: - ... release_build: stage: build only: - tags script: - ... artifacts: expire_in: ... paths: - ... deployment1: stage: deploy dependencies: - release_build only: - tags script: - ... deployment2: stage: deploy only: - tags dependencies: - release_build script: - ... ```