Custom Button: redirecting to standard page in edit mode

Question

What I'm trying do is, when the user clicks on the Custom Button I want that to redirect to a Standard page in edit mode

Here is what I have done so far: In the standard page layout:

Label `Clone Testing`
Created `Custom Button or Link Edit`
Content Source: `URL`

/EmployeeClonePage?id={!Employee__c.Id}

Placed the above custom button created on the standard page layout.

So when clicked on the above custom button I see the blank screen and the URL is still pointing to the EmployeeClonePage?id=xxxx

What I expect/want is that to refresh the page to display the new id

EmployeeClonePage Page:

<apex:page controller="EmployeeCloneController" action="{!CloneMe}">  
</apex:page>

EmployeeCloneController:

public void CloneME() 
{
   //SOQL....
   //insert got the newId
   redirectMe(newId)
}

private pageReference redirectMe(Id newId) {
   return new PageReference('/'+newId+'/e?retURL=/'+newId);
}

What I'm doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Your visualforce page is calling CloneME() (via the action attribute), which returns precisely nothing (not even null, which is probably why your current controller code isn't causing an infinite loop of page reloading).

To redirect to another page, you'll need to change your method signature to return a pageReference.

return redirectMe(someId); should then accomplish what you are looking to do.

Answer 2

Best way to navigate to Edit screen with the use of StandardController.

public PageReference CloneME() 
{
   //SOQL....
   //insert got the newId
   return (new ApexPages.StandardController (new Employee__c(Id=newId))).edit();
}

To return to detail page:

return (new ApexPages.StandardController (new Employee__c(Id=newId))).view();