Forum Post: Cannot get button to open a custom "new" page from another object

[jsniemi79]

I have an accounts object where I'm trying to att a button that simply opens a new window to create a new task. I cloned the new task view. On my account object, I created a button that opens a url When i click on my button on the account page, it takes me to the view of my accounts rather than my new page. My console and my page url show that tried to navigate to the correct page, but I don't get to see that on screen. If I do the exact same scenario except change the link to the default new page, it works perfectly. Am I missing something?

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