Page Reference issue in Lightning

Question

I have a command link button on Account page (Create Account). As soon as a user clicks on the button, an edit page gets populated to fill the details. Once the details are filled and hit the save button, then account gets created and redirects the user to the account record detail page that got created. This works in Visualforce but if I switch to Lightning it doesn't redirect me to the detail page of the created record but remains on the same account page, but record gets created in Lightning as well.

The expectation is that once the record is saved , it should go to the record detail page as it works smoothly in classic but not in lightning

Apex controller:

return new pagereference('/'+acc.Id+'/e?&nooverride=1&saveURL=/apex/Address_Validation?addressType=AccountBillingAddress&id='+acc.Id+'&retURL='+acc.Id);

Answer 1

You can't utilize retURL in Lightning and I think the best answer would be to look at using a quick action on the account which can pre-populate the fields based on the current record and then displays a toast message with a link to click into the new record. You're on Lightning now so you should look at catering your customization/actions to fit the platform.

For Spring 20 coming out in a couple weeks, they actually did bring back some ability to do the pre-filling notion using a custom button/link. You can test this out in a sandbox with Spring 20 to see if it meets your needs. Below, is the example of the formula and what you can do:

/lightning/o/Account/new?defaultFieldValues=
    Name={!URLENCODE(Account.Name)},
    OwnerId={!Account.OwnerId},
    AccountNumber={!Account.AccountNumber},
    NumberOfEmployees=35000,
    CustomCheckbox__c={!IF(Account.SomeCheckbox__c, true, false)}

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If you do need to simply edit the VF page to support some of that functionality, you could look at this trailhead on the difference in navigation in Lightning vs. Classic as well.

Essentially, in Lightning there's an event mechanism for navigation and messaging. This is exposed in Visualforce as a JavaScript object called sforce.one. You could use the sforce.one.editRecord(); method to pass the accId and it'll redirect you to the edit screen and automatically go on that record after the save. The missing piece is that I don't believe there's a way to pass field information to pre-fill.