[SalesForce] Custom ‘Save & New’- Button with redirect to record type selection page

My custom object has different record types and an overwritten edit page.

I want to implement a 'Save & New'- Button on this VF page which redirects my users to the record type selection page.
How can I implement this in my controller extension of the VF page?

Edit:
I tried to implement the solution from DavinC. First it worked fine, but since Summer '14 it redirects me to the Record Type Selector and if I choose a Record Type and press Continue nothing happens.

VF page button:

<apex:commandButton value="Save & New" action="{!doSaveAndNew}"/>

Controller Extension method:

public PageReference doSaveAndNew() {
        PageReference result = null;        

        try {  
            upsert myObject;
            String myObjectEntityId = CustomSettings__c.getAll().values().get(0).txt_myObjectEntityId__c;
            result = new PageReference('/setup/ui/recordtypeselect.jsp?ent=' + myObjectEntityId + '+&retURL=myObjectEditPage&save_new_??url=' + myObjectEntityId + '/e');        
        } 
        catch(Exception ignore) {}

        return result;
    }

Best Answer

Take a look at the URL for the recordtype selection page for the object in question. For Opportunity for example, it's:

/setup/ui/recordtypeselect.jsp?ent=Opportunity&retURL=<VF_page>&save_new_url=006/e

006/e being the standard Opportunity edit page.

It should be a similar approach for all objects.

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This is because you are returning the cancel() page reference. The cancel method returns a PageReference of the cancel page. See info here:

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pages.meta/pages/apex_ApexPages_StandardController_methods.htm

Try simply returning the PageReference object returned by the save() method:

public PageReference saveAndReturn()
{
    return stdController.save();
}

EDIT: I may have misread your post. Returning save() will take you to the detail record of the record you just saved. If you want to navigate back to the parent, you can use the id of the parent like this:

public PageReference saveAndReturn()
{
    stdController.save();
    PageReference parentPage = new PageReference('/' + parent.Id);
    parentPage.setRedirect(true);
    return parentPage;
}

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Ok, so I found the problem. It was in this line:

return new PageReference('/setup/ui/recordtypeselect.jsp?ent=Account&nooverride=1');

When I removed the override of the new button and tried to create a new Account, I saw this URL:

https://cs18.salesforce.com/setup/ui/recordtypeselect.jsp?ent=Account&retURL=%2F001%2Fo&save_new_url=%2F001%2Fe%3FretURL%3D%252F001%252Fo

Note this save_new_url parameter in there. After I added it to my PageReference everything works as it is supposed to(some profiles get a custom VF page and others go to standard record type selection and standard new layout):

return new PageReference('/setup/ui/recordtypeselect.jsp?ent=Account&nooverride=1&save_new_url=%2F001%2Fe');

And actually I don't even need this if anymore(that checks for RecordType parameter), so the code was reduced to this:

public PageReference redirect() {
    if (!shouldSkipRecordTypeSelection(u)) { // a simple if that checks user's profile and returns true if record type selection should be skipped
        return new PageReference('/setup/ui/recordtypeselect.jsp?ent=Account&nooverride=1&save_new_url=%2F001%2Fe');
    }
    return null;
}

EDIT

As sfdcweb mentioned is his comment, this will not work for custom objects by simple changing the ent property to MyCustomObject__c.

To make it work for custom objects too you will have to use the 15 character id of that custom object. To find it, go to:

Setup
Create
Objects
Select your object and check the URL in your browser(for example: https://cs87.salesforce.com/01I8E0000008XjE?setupid=CustomObjects)
This is the id that we need(01I8E0000008XjE)

Then, just replace the ent=Account with ent=01I8E0000008XjE

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