UIContainerViews storyboard - ios

I have a normal UIViewController in my iPad storyboard. inside this viewcontroller I have other 2 UIcontainerViews, each linked up with another UIviewController (when I added the containerView, Xcode automatically created these 2 view controllers). I now have 2 view controller in the same view controller each wired up to a different class.
The only thing is that the views load and display the content (buttons, UITableview)...but the UITableView doesn't actually load the data, and when I press the buttons nothing happens. when I instead remove the container views and test the two ViewControllers separately, they work perfectly. How can I fix this?

I had copied and pasted the content from one view controller to another, and even if the mach up's with the .h file where still there, they didn't work. I deleted all of the content and added it again

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UIStoryboard segue fail

I created a simple Show segue by dragging from a UIButton to another UIViewController in storyboard view. It's configured as all of my other VCs and has a custom class that is specified, with linked IBOutlets and IBActions (which appear to link up when I hover on them).
NOTE: When I first created it, there was no view controller class specified. I've recreated it several times since then, but I'm wondering if some value is cached that's pointing to a default view controller. Although I get print lines from the correct view did load method...
For some reason, when I run the app and click the button it links to a black, empty view controller. The navbar pops up without any back button (these views are embedded in UINavigationController).
After looking up other posts about this kind of issue, I've deleted and recreated the segue, cleaned my build folder and restarted Xcode. There's no source code involved in this, just storyboard configuration. Any help on next steps?
According to the code shown in your screen shot, the problem would be that NodeEnrollmentViewController is a subclass of UINavigationController. That's wrong. It should be a subclass of UIViewController.
You cannot (and do not need to) segue from a view controller within a navigation controller to a navigation controller.

Can you define a Segue in the storyboard to self?

I have an app that represents a folder structure. I have a UITableViewController for the folders and files listing, and a UIViewController for the Documents.
I want to be able to recursively navigate through the folder structure, so I want to reuse the Folder UITableView multiple times while I let the user drill down a folder structure.
Is there a way to draw a segue from the UITableViewController to self so when I select a folder I present another instance of the view, but with the content of the subfolder?
I did this in previous versions of Xcode, but I cannot figure this out on Xcode 9.
You can use Storyboard Reference and Storyboard ID of ViewController in Interface Builder
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Yes you can do it. Add a hidden button in view controller and drag & drop segue self view controller.
I've never created a segue link to the same view controller, but based on Halil's answer above, it sounds like it's possible.
Rather than messing with hidden buttons, though, why don't you give your scene a storyboard identifier, and then instantiate and push/present your view controller through code? You could put your logic in the table view's tableView(_:didSelectRowAt:) method.

UIViewController defined in a xib file doesn't load in the storyboard

I'm trying to load a subclass of a UIViewController with its views defined in a xib file into a storyboard. Let's call it a NibViewController.
The point of this approach is to reuse the same ViewController in multiple screens of the app.
I know it's possible to do it manually in the code, but I'm looking for a solution in the storyboard. I've tried suggestions from other topics like this one, but nothing worked. The ViewController is correctly displayed in the simulator but not in the storyboard. Here is the code: https://github.com/srstanic/NibViewControllerInStoryboard
and here is the screenshot:
Am I mistaken to expect the contents of the NibViewController to appear in the storyboard?
Am I mistaken to expect the contents of the NibViewController to appear in the storyboard?
Yes, you are mistaken. Your app is working perfectly so you should stop worrying and just proceed.
By deleting the view from the view controller in the storyboard, you have specifically instructed the storyboard: "Do not make a view for this view controller. At runtime, the view should come from the xib file, not from you."
And that is exactly what does happen at runtime. So just design your interface in the xib file and all will be well.

Issues with .xib files

So I've "accidentally" created 3 nib files, I can swipe right and left between three views (.xib files) however, I have some issues regarding the layouts and auto-layouts, for one device it looks great, the others.... not so hot.
I'm trying to add a few images and a button, however, the placement is totally weird.
How can I address this issue?
Also, could I just use a ViewController to present itself over the .xib file if possible?
There are two ways you can consider on your situation.
Firstly, You can connect each of these 3 nib files with a view controller. Then you can use a page view controller to manage all these three view controllers. Page view controller supports swipe right and left for showing different view controllers. You only need to make each view controller layout correct then all the swipe actions will be handled by page view controller.
Secondly, you can create a root view controller with 3 sub view controllers. You should call rootViewController.addChildController method to add these 3 sub view controllers. But you need to be carefully about the layout of these 3 sub view controllers since they are only part of the root view controller.
You have to check auto layout constraints for your display issue. Some times auto layout leads problem for your display.
And for three .nib files you can simple use view controller and add it to the root view when you need it and remove it from root view when you want to remove it.

How to create a separate view in Storyboard to be included programmatically in UITableView?

I have a UIViewController with a UITableView that is fed with data from the local database. When the user first launches the app (after installing) the table view is empty and I display a UIView in the middle of the table view that contains a UIImage, a UILabel and a UIButton (a call to action).
The first version of this view I built programmatically, which was no good to me because every time I tweaked something I had to build the app again. Then I switched to the storyboard but had to drag a UIView to the middle of my tableView. It is working now but I don't like the way it is, I can't edit my table view cells without having to move the UIView out of the table view.
I'd like to have a way to build this view entirely separated from my tableView (or even from my view controller in question) and then reference it in the viewDidLoad call of my view controller.
Unfortunately Xcode does not allow us to drag views directly to the storyboard so I'm pretty lost here.
Please tell me if I haven't been clear enough. I appreciate any help you could give me.
UPDATE: It'd be particularly awesome to me if I could also create a custom Swift class for this view of mine and reference it in the storyboard. And then in my viewDidLoad I could simply instantiate my custom view.
Thanks in advance.
Create a XIB file in which you can drag a view (without a view controller).
In your code you can load the XIB using NSBundle.mainBundle().loadNibNamed("MyXibName", owner:self, options:nil).
In the XIB file you can give the UIView a custom class (like you can do with view controllers in storyboard).
You then of course have to retrieve the view from the array returned by loadNibNamed and cast it to your custom class.

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