In sitecore 7.2 which is an upgraded site from sitecore 6.5, when I create a new item which will be in the draft workflow state and click publish--> Page Editor the user will be redirected to home item, but when the item is on the final workflow the page editor will work fine.
There is a lot of code customization in the solution, Not sure if it is a sitecore issue or a custom code cause this?.
Does the user have access to the 'approval' state? It is possible your permissions are set up such that the user no longer has read access once the item moves to the approval state, so you get redirected to the home page.
@Mohammed Syam discovered that this was due to the following configuration issue:
the "<processor type="Sitecore.Pipelines.FilterItem.DisableApprovedVersionFiltering, Sitecore.Kernel"/> " was missing in web.config, adding this processor solve this issue