Redirect to opportunity edit page

I have 2 user profiles: internal user and partner user (partner portal). I want to have separate behaviours when each user clicks on the Opportunity New button, to create a new opportunity:

• internal user clicks on Opportunity New button – redirect to a custom visualforce page;
• partner user clicks on Opportunity New button – redirect to a custom the standard opportunity edit page;

I have:

1. replaced the standard “New” button with my custom VF page;
2. in the VF page I’ve added an action to check and redirect to the correct page;
3. in the controller, the method checks the context user and if it’s a partner user, redirects to the standard opportunity edit page.

This works fine for internal user; for the partner user, it does redirect to the standard page but, for some reason, it gets into some kind of loop and the page never actually loads.

I wonder if the link I am redirecting to is correct or if there’s something I am doing wrong.

Here’s a snippet of the code:

VF Page:

<apex:page standardController="Opportunity" extensions="OpportunityController" tabStyle="Opportunity" action="{!redirectForPartner}">

</apex:page>

Controller:

public PageReference redirectForPartner(){

    User user;
    Id userId = UserInfo.getUserId();

    if(userId != null){
        user = [Select Id, Name, Email, Username, ProfileId, Profile.Name From User Where Id =: userId];
    }

    if(user.Profile.Name.equals(PARTNER_PROFILE)){

        PageReference pr = new PageReference('/partner/006/e?retURL=%2Fpartner%2F006%2Fo');
        return pr;

    }

    return null;

}

Answers:

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Method 1

You could have done all of this without any apex code at all:

<apex:page standardController="Opportunity" 
  action="{!IF($Profile.Name=$Label.Partner_Profile_Name, 
    URLFOR($Action.Opportunity.New, null, null, true),
    URLFOR($Page.NewOpportunity, null, null)}"></apex:page>

I’d recommend having the custom Visualforce page be separate so that the redirect is on its own page. It’s a little easier to manage this way.

Method 2

You need to stop the override by using the nooverride parameter.

Change as follows:

if(user.Profile.Name.equals(PARTNER_PROFILE)){

    PageReference pr = new PageReference('/partner/006/e?retURL=%2Fpartner%2F006%2Fo&nooverried=1');
    return pr;

}

Method 3

Ok, so with the help of @sfdcfox and @Eric, I think I got the answer. I had to tweak the action a little bit.

2 things I had to change:

1) I needed to add a retURL to this URLFOR($Action.Opportunity.New, null, null, true) because the Cancel button on the standard page wasn’t doing anything.

2) I replaced this URLFOR($Page.NewOpportunity, null, null)})} for null, because I was getting one of those strange Internal Errors from Salesforce. I think because the page was calling itself, it might’ve entered some kind of loop.

I ended up with this:

action="{!IF($Profile.Id==PARTNER_PROFILE_ID, URLFOR($Action.Opportunity.New, null, [retURL='/006/o'], true), null)}"

It looks like it’s working 🙂

Cheers

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