Jason, Uwe, Shannon,

Thanks a lot for your replies and time. Instead of going URL hack or publisher action route, I creaded a controller and VF page. That way I could address two additional requirements.

1. Display clickable URL links at the time of record creation and
2. Display the customized VF Page for one (out of four) different record types, while renderring system provided page for other three record types

Here is my code

<apex:page standardController="" extensions="ctrlExt">

if({!redirect}) window.top.location.href='/a03/e?RecordType={!CustomObject.recordtypeid}&nooverride=1'

<apex:form >
     ... Custom VF Code for the record type ...
</apex:form>

</apex:page>

and here is the controller

public class ctrlExt { customObj__c c; public ctrlExt(ApexPages.StandardController ctrl) { c = (customObject__c) ctrl.getRecord();
}

public Boolean getRedirect() {
    RecordType rt = [<Query to get record type from RecordType table>];
    if (<Intended Record Type Name>.equals(rt.name))
        return false;
    else
        return true;
}

}

Here is the link I found useful while writing this code

https://developer.salesforce.com/forums?id=906F000000094WRIAY One last note: when I tried to set default value for the address using Opportunity__r, I got error saying Opportunity__r does not exist.

Thanks again for your support, Shridhar

Jason, Uwe, Shannon, Rao

Thanks a lot for your replies and time. Instead of going URL hack or publisher action route, I creaded a controller and VF page. That way I could address two additional requirements.

1. Display clickable URL links at the time of record creation and
2. Display the customized VF Page for one (out of four) different record types, while renderring system provided page for other three record types

Here is my code

<apex:page standardController="" extensions="ctrlExt">

if({!redirect}) window.top.location.href='/a03/e?RecordType={!CustomObject.recordtypeid}&nooverride=1'

<apex:form >
     ... Custom VF Code for the record type ...
</apex:form>

</apex:page>

and here is the controller

public class ctrlExt { customObj__c c; public ctrlExt(ApexPages.StandardController ctrl) { c = (customObject__c) ctrl.getRecord();
}

public Boolean getRedirect() {
    RecordType rt = [<Query to get record type from RecordType table>];
    if (<Intended Record Type Name>.equals(rt.name))
        return false;
    else
        return true;
}

}

Here is the link I found useful while writing this code

https://developer.salesforce.com/forums?id=906F000000094WRIAY One last note: when I tried to set default value for the address using Opportunity__r, I got error saying Opportunity__r does not exist.

Thanks again for your support, Shridhar