[SalesForce] URLFOR on VF Page – Help with specifying record type

I have the following URL on a VF page. I want the link to take you to the details entry point and not the record type picker screen which is currently happening. I can't find a good documentation point for what the input parameters are for URLFOR function. Can someone tell me what to tweak to make this work?

<apex:outputLink value="{!URLFOR($Action.Admin_Tracking__c.New, null, [p3='012230000004LDD', save=1])}" target="_blank">Advanced Entry</apex:outputLink>

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Your parameter is incorrect and to answer your question of URLFOR Explained:

<apex:outputLink value="{!URLFOR($Action.Admin_Tracking__c.New, null, [RecordType='012230000004LDD', save=1])}" target="_blank">Advanced Entry</apex:outputLink>

http://salesforcesource.blogspot.com/2008/12/urlfor-function-finally-explained.html

{!URLFOR(target, id, [inputs], [no override])}

Parameters shown in brackets ([]) are optional.

target: You can replace target with a URL or action, s-control or static resource.

id: This is id of the object or resource name (string type) in support of the provided target.

inputs: Any additional URL parameters you need to pass you can use this parameter. you will to put the URL parameters in brackets and separate them with commas ex: [param1="value1", param2="value2"]

no override: A Boolean value which defaults to false, it applies to targets for standard Salesforce pages. Replace "no override" with "true" when you want to display a standard Salesforce page regardless of whether you have defined an override for it elsewhere.

Although, this will not do what I suspect you actually want and bypass the record type selection page. Currently no way to do that using URLFOR

Alternate way of doing this: Build the url

http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2010/03/30/short-cut-the-recordtype-selection-step/

/006/e?retURL=%2F{!Account.Id}&accid={!Account.Id}
&RecordType=YOUR-RECORDTYPE&cancelURL=%2F{!Account.Id}

Alternate solution: if you only have one record type assigned to each profile then the selection screen will not be presented

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Something like this what you're looking for?

{!URLFOR('/apex/' + $CurrentPage.Name, null, ['id'=id])}

It will compile into URLFOR alright, and resolve to an absolute URL including namespace:

https://namespace.na14.visual.force.com/apex/Relative?id=000000000000000AAA

I'm passing the id as second param, but it was being ignored, so I added it to the extra param array, and it works fine. Not sure why that's needed, but it's working.

I think that second parameter is strictly for $Action URLs. Otherwise it's dropped.

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I focused on getting the Cancel action from new Sobject page to return to a page other than from whence I started. Apologies for not using Cases

Foo__c has record types
a09/e is the key prefix for Foo__c
ID is the ID of the record of the VF page where the outputLink exists - I used a standardController to test this; you could use something different here
someNonFooId represents your intent - go to a page other than where you came if user clicks Cancel on the new Foo__c page after selecting a recordtype. Your VF page should know what to put here.

Code

<apex:outputLink value="{!URLFOR($Action.Foo__c.New, null, 
                                 ['retURL'='/' & ID, 
                                  'save_new_url' = '/a09/e?retURL=/' & someNonFooId],
                                  true)}" >
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</apex:outputLink>

The trick was to tell the record type selection page to use a provided parameter save_new_url as otherwise, the recordtype selection page will generate a save_new_url for itself with a retURL that goes back to whence it came (the page with the outputlink). Note the save_new_url parameter value contains a parameter retURL - this is what gets passed to the New Foo__c page and is used by the new Foo__c page's OOB cancel button. I probably could have made the value of save_new_url a URLFOR itself but ran out of time.

Of course, URL hacking the record type selection process is subject to SFDC change

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