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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.

eslamb
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  • what does the navController.popoverPresentationController property do? And why are you trying to set this popoverPresentationController's sourceView to the view you are passing into this function? Also if you are trying to use iPad's popover with the arrow pointing to it, the api you are looking for is UIPopoverController https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIPopoverController_class/index.html – Drmorgan Apr 15 '15 at 17:51
  • I'm using the view passed to the function as anchor for the popover – eslamb Apr 15 '15 at 18:06
  • @Drmorgan using the UIPopoverController I could present my Navigation Controller, but the error keep showing, first time a presented I can push to another controller, second time I can't – eslamb Apr 15 '15 at 18:18
  • Can you show the code on how you push the controllers onto the navigation controller? – Drmorgan Apr 15 '15 at 20:16

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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:

In Storyboard:

Hope this helps!

Drmorgan
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