My custom button behaves differently from the standard new button.
It does work but it just bypasses the record type selection.
How do I make it behave like the standard one where the user needs to select the record type 1st before going to the record creation.
Here is my custom buttom syntax
/a0V/e?CF00N9E000000ibdI={!Account.Name}&CF00N9E000000ibdI_lkid={!Account.Id}&00N9E000000iblW={!Account.Address_Billing_Country__c}&retURL=/{!Account.Id}
I tried this hack for one of my implementation and it worked like a charm. I suspect one of 3 things :
1. A workflow rule
2. An Apex Trigger
3. Other record types not accessible on profile.
OR
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:
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:
Then, just replace the ent=Account with ent=01I8E0000008XjE
Best Answer
In my dev org looking at the record type selection screen I see the following in my browser URL:
The record edit page (post record type selection) displays the following URL in my browser:
If you know what record type you're looking to create ahead of time you could include the RecordType parameter in you JS Button code along with the corresponding Record Type ID.
If you're looking to still have this the record type selection available to the user then it looks like you would first need to direct users to the
/recordtypeselect.jspwith the corresponding parameters, and then forward users to object edit page.