Calling ActivityViewController from Custom Cell - ios

Question

I have a custom cell for my TableView app. The TableViewController is called "BlogView". My custom cell has a few buttons on it, one being a share button. I want to present a UIActivityViewController when one of the buttons is pressed.
In the header for my custom cell, I have a property:
#property (nonatomic, retain) BlogView *myViewController;
In the custom cell, I have for layoutSubview:
self.commentButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[self.commentButton addTarget:self action:#selector(didTapCommentButtonAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.commentButton setTitle:#"Share" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[self.commentButton setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[self.commentButton setTitleColor:[UIColor greenColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
For the selector didTapCommentButtonAction I have:
- (void)didTapCommentButtonAction:(id)sender
{
NSLog(#"CommentButtonTAPPED");
Mail *mail = [[Mail alloc]init];
NSString *html = self.prayerObject[#"Request"];
NSString *thetitle = [self.prayerObject[#"Title"] stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#"%20"];
NSString *thedate = self.prayerObject[#"dateMade"];
NSDateFormatter *dateFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[dateFormat setDateFormat:#"MMM_dd_yyyy"];
[dateFormat setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithAbbreviation:#"GMT"]];
NSDate *theNewDate1 = [dateFormat dateFromString:thedate];
NSString *theNewDate = [dateFormat stringFromDate:theNewDate1];
mail.thehtml = html;
self.nameofhtmlfile = [[[[#"http://www.iprayed4u.net/app/" stringByAppendingString:thetitle] stringByAppendingString:#"_"] stringByAppendingString:theNewDate] stringByAppendingString:#".html"];
// Reminder *thereminder = [[Reminder alloc] init];
//thereminder.thehtml = html;
//thereminder.thetitle = thetitle;
//thereminder.thedate = thedate;
UIActivityViewController *activityVC = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:#[self] applicationActivities:#[mail]];
if (floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) <= NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_6_1) {
activityVC.excludedActivityTypes = #[ UIActivityTypePostToWeibo,
UIActivityTypeCopyToPasteboard,
UIActivityTypeAssignToContact,
UIActivityTypeMail,
UIActivityTypePrint
];
}
else {
activityVC.excludedActivityTypes = #[ UIActivityTypePostToWeibo,
UIActivityTypeCopyToPasteboard,
UIActivityTypeAssignToContact,
UIActivityTypeMail,
UIActivityTypePrint,
UIActivityTypeAirDrop
];
}
NSLog(#"Test");
[self.myViewController presentViewController: activityVC animated: YES completion: nil];
}
In BlogView.m
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
object:(PFObject *)object
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
Cell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[Cell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
}
self.theObject = object;
// Configure the cell to show todo item with a priority at the bottom
cell.profileName.text = object[#"Title"];
cell.contentLabel.text = object[#"Request"];
cell.firstName = object[#"FirstName"];
cell.lastName = object[#"LastName"];
cell.iostoken = object[#"DeviceID"];
cell.request = object[#"Title"];
cell.prayerObject = object;
PFFile *thumbnail = object[#"ProfilePic"];
cell.profilePic.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"AppIcon60x60#2x.png"];
[thumbnail getDataInBackgroundWithBlock:^(NSData *imageData, NSError *error) {
UIImage *thumbnailImage = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
UIImageView *thumbnailImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:thumbnailImage];
cell.profilePic.image = thumbnailImage;
}];
NSString *dates = object[#"dateMade"];
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:#"MMM_dd_yyyy"];
NSDate *datefromstring = [formatter dateFromString:dates];
NSDateFormatter *formatter2 = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter2 setDateFormat:#"MMM dd, yyyy"];
cell.dateLabel.text = [formatter2 stringFromDate:datefromstring];
UIFont *cellFont = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Verdana-Bold" size:15];
UIFont *cellFont2 = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Verdana-Bold" size:12];
return cell;
}
I get no warnings or errors, but when I click on the button, nothing happens.

Answer 1

Step one: obtain an IBOutlet from the button on your cell to the CustomCell.h file...
#property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *commentButton;
Step two: In the cellForRowAtIndexPath, add a selector to the button on each cell and dress it up how you wanted it...NOTICE we are adding the selector to each 'cell button' now... not self.commentButton
[cell.commentButton addTarget:self action:#selector(didTapCommentButtonAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[cell.commentButton setTitle:#"Share" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[cell.commentButton setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[cell.commentButton setTitleColor:[UIColor greenColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
Step three: implement the selector method inside of the BlogView.m file rather than inside of the CustomCell.m