Can't push because self.navigationController is nil - ios

Question

I'm presenting a Navigation Controller as a popover. First time a do it I can push to another View Controller with any issue. But, second time a present another controller the same way I can't perform a push because the self.navigationController of the presented Controller is nil. This is the piece of code I'm using to present the Controller
func instantiateEditController(view : UIView) -> UINavigationController
{
let popoverContent = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("Edit Controller") as MCMEditController
popoverContent.preferredContentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 480)
let navController = MCMBaseNavigationController(rootViewController: popoverContent)
navController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover
navController.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
let popover = navController.popoverPresentationController
popover?.sourceView = view
popover?.sourceRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height)
return navController
}
Note: The Navigation Controller is always presented, but just the first time I perform pushes. And this code is for be used in iPad.

Answer 1

Because of the nature of Storyboards and not being able to show that here, I'm not sure where your issue is exactly.
However I successfully setup a project that works using segues. I changed your code to the following:
func instantiateEditController(view : UIView) -> UINavigationController
{
if let popoverContent = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("Edit Controller") as? MCMEditController {
popoverContent.preferredContentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 480)
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: popoverContent)
navController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover
navController.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
let popover = navController.popoverPresentationController
popover?.sourceView = view
popover?.sourceRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height)
return navController
} else {
return UINavigationController(rootViewController: self) // not recommend to keep this, I'm on Swift 1.2 and this was an easy fix to resolve the errors
}
}
To present this popover I set up this IBAction in my ViewController (sender in my case was a UIButton)
#IBAction func presentPopover(sender: AnyObject) {
if let view = sender as? UIView {
let controller = instantiateEditController(view)
let popover = UIPopoverController(contentViewController: controller)
popover.presentPopoverFromRect(view.frame, inView: self.view, permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirection.Any, animated: true)
}
}
The last thing that could be the issue is make sure your segues are using the segue type "show" for all the segues to make sure the transition between them use the navigation controller push:
Hope this helps!