diff --git a/scripts/Rewrite-AppVersion.ps1 b/scripts/Rewrite-AppVersion.ps1
index f166be31..7e9ba038 100644
--- a/scripts/Rewrite-AppVersion.ps1
+++ b/scripts/Rewrite-AppVersion.ps1
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ if ($customversion) {
 }
 
 if ($INPUT_TARGET -eq "nightly") {
+    "`nUser manually requested a nighlty build..."
     $CRON_LAUNCHED = "1"
 }
 
diff --git a/scripts/rewrite_app_version_number.sh b/scripts/rewrite_app_version_number.sh
index 4d40c74e..e1a47ac8 100644
--- a/scripts/rewrite_app_version_number.sh
+++ b/scripts/rewrite_app_version_number.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@
 
 # Use the override value by preference
 VERSION=${INPUT_VERSION}
+if [[ ${INPUT_TARGET} = "nightly" ]]; then
+    echo "User manually requested a nightly build..."
+    CRON_LAUNCHED="1"
+fi
 # If the script was launched by Cron, then there will be no INPUT_VERSION, so construct a nightly version number
 if [[ "qq${CRON_LAUNCHED}" != "qq" ]]; then
   echo "This script was launched by the GitHub Cron job"