Strange error when adding items to prototype cells in storyboard-IB

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I have quite a large project (~20 scenes). One of which is a TableViewController with a custom UITableViewController class. I have given the cell a reuse identifier, and added a label to it. When I try and Ctrl+Drag the label to the UITableViewController header file to create an outlet, I get the following error: error: Illegal Configuration: Connection "tableInfoView" cannot have a prototype object as its destination. What is this? Am I overlooking something obvious? Or do I need to create a custom cell class and drag the outlet to that? If so, how do I then specify the data which is displayed uniquely for each cell from the UITableViewController?

Accepted Answer

In fact you can't just make an outlet from a dynamic cell prototype in the `UITableView` delegate view controller.

You'll have to subclass `UITableViewCell` and then attribute this class to your prototype.

Then you can Ctrl-Drag from the Label to the `UITableViewCell` subclass header file.

Finaly you can access to this outlet in the delegate code after having imported the `UITableViewCell` header file in it.

This is documented by Apple there at "The Technique for Dynamic Row Content" section.

Strange error when adding items to prototype cells in storyboard-IB

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