Troubling linking UITextField to UITableViewCell subclass - ios

I am creating a view controller that holds a couple different fields for creating a log entry. To do this I have used a grouped table view with static cells, which looks like this:
Within each cell I have added a textfield (which has placeholder text as you can see from the screenshot). For the first text field I was able to create an IBOutlet for it using a subclass of UITableViewCell that I created, as seen below:
public class TextInputTableViewCell: UITableViewCell{
#IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!
}
However, when I tried to do the same for the second cell, using the following class:
public class MultipleTextInputTableViewCell: UITableViewCell {
}
It doesn't let me use-control click, or frankly any other method, to create an outlet for the text fields. I have tried setting the cell as a member of "MultipleTextInputTableViewCell" in the identity inspector, but that did not solve the problem. I have compared the two situations very closely and found no differences, so I am really confused to as why it isn't working for the second cell.
EDIT:
I was asked to post the attributes for the cell from the identity inspector. Below is a screenshot:

If one both cell are not static then it is possible. If you are use static cell then you can't use dynamic.
I think you should use dynamic prototype cell instead of static cells. It may resolve your problem :)

So I solved my own answer, but Stack Overflow won't let me accept it for another two days.
From what I can tell, this is an Xcode bug.
By manually typing out each outlet and then dragging the connection circle in the line-counter to each text field I was able to connect them. However, I tried it the other way around (option-click dragging from a text field to the written code) and that still didn't work. I am using assistant editor capability to do this so the issue may lie there.
EDIT:
Also, what actually would have been the accepted answer from me that I just found out (a couple hours later after I posted this question) is that you can create an #IBOutlet directly in the view controller holding the table view if you are using static cells. There is no need to create subclasses for each cell, and I guess Xcode is discouraging it through not allowing it to be easily connected. This connection works both ways and greatly simplifies my project. But kudos to myself I guess.

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I'm creating a Table View in Interface Builder (Storyboard). I'd like to have a couple of different Dynamic Prototype cells with different sets of Labels and Images in them and so on, and I can give them different reuseIdentifiers so I can pick which ones I want at runtime.
In Interface Builder, I create several Dynamic Prototype cells in my UITableView, which is controlled by a UITableViewController.
In the first cell, I drag and drop in various views and so on.
In the second cell, IB will not let me drag any views into it? I can resize the second cell vertically, but can't put anything into it at all, either by dragging into the cell or into the object graph in the left-side bar.
If I copy and paste the first cell, a second Dynamic Prototype will appear with all of the same contents, but I won't be able to modify the copied cell (can't add or move subviews). However--and this is strange--I can select the constraints and modify their values to resize and shift objects in the second cell.
As a note, running XCode 5-DP3. Tried restarting it (didn't expect that to help, and it didn't). Otherwise, unsure what to try, and unsure if I'm doing something very braindead, or if this is a bug I need to report to Apple.
So, am I crazy? Has anyone experienced this/can anyone recreate this?
EDIT:
After further testing, if I stick a big UIView into the first cell, and then copy that cell, I can edit inside my added view. (Does this make sense?) I can't edit anything that lies within the second UITableViewCell, but if it contains a UIView copied over from the first cell, I can put new views into that view and move them around and so on. Super-strange.
For the sake of posterity, I'm answering my own question:
The way I solved this was to take a UITableViewCell object from the Object library and drag it onto the UITableView. Sounds simple, right?
The problem I was running into was only if I copied existing dynamic prototypes through Cmd+C & Cmd+V, or by incrementing the number in the Attributes inspector for the table view. The Storyboard Editor wouldn't allow me to modify those ones.
Dropping in new cells from the Object library let me tweak them all separately.
XCode 5-DP6 solved issues with not abling to resize cell's subviews.

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