Outlets cannot be connected to repeating content iOS

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I have just created an app and have started hooking up  IBOutlet s to the storyboard  I am connecting some of them to labels in a UITableViewCell Prototype Cell with a Basic Style  When I connect it though I get this error in the Storyboard      The detailText Outlet from the TableViewController to the UILabel is invalid  Outlets cannot be connected to repeating content    Can someone help me out  I have set it up the way I always do successfully but this time it has chucked me this error

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Click on simulator    Navigate to Window and enable Device Bezels

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Sometimes Xcode could not control over correctly cell outlet connection  Somehow my current cell   s label button has connected another cell I just remove those and error goes away

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With me I have a UIViewcontroller  and into it I have a tableview with a custom cell on it  I map my outlet of UILabel into UItableviewcell to the UIViewController then got the error

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For collectionView   solution   From viewcontroller  kindly remove the IBoutlet of colllectionviewcell    the issue mentions the invalid of your IBOutlet  so remove all subclass which has multi-outlet invalids  and reconnect it  The answer is already mentioned in another question for collectionviewcell

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Or you don t have to use IBOutlet to refer to the object in the view  You can give the Label in the tableViewCell a Tag value  for example set the Tag to 123  this can be done by the attributes inspector   Then you can access the label by   override func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell        let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   someID   for  indexPath       let label   cell viewWithTag 123  as  UILabel   refer the label by Tag      switch indexPath row       case 0          label text    Hello World       default          label text    Default            return cell

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Create a table view cell subclass and set it as the class of the prototype  Add the outlets to that class and connect them  Now when you configure the cell you can access the outlets

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There are two types of table views cells provided to you through the storyboard  they are Dynamic Prototypes and Static Cells    1  Dynamic Prototypes  From the name  this type of cell is generated dynamically  They are controlled through your code  not the storyboard  With help of table view s delegate and data source  you can specify the number of cells  heights of cells  prototype of cells programmatically    When you drag a cell to your table view  you are declaring a prototype of cells  You can then create any amount of cells base on this prototype and add them to the table view through cellForRow method  programmatically  The advantage of this is that you only need to define 1 prototype instead of creating each and every cell with all views added to them by yourself  See static cell     So in this case  you cannot connect UI elements on cell prototype to your view controller  You will have only one view controller object initiated  but you may have many cell objects initiated and added to your table view  It doesn t make sense to connect cell prototype to view controller because you cannot control multiple cells with one view controller connection  And you will get an error if you do so     To fix this problem  you need to connect your prototype label to a UITableViewCell object  A UITableViewCell is also a prototype of cells and you can initiate as many cell objects as you want  each of them is then connected to a view that is generated from your storyboard table cell prototype     Finally  in your cellForRow method  create the custom cell from the UITableViewCell class  and do fun stuff with the label  override func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell       let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   yourCellIdentifier   as  YourCell      cell label text    it works        return cell     2  Static Cells  On the other hand  static cells are indeed configured though storyboard  You have to drag UI elements to each and every cell to create them  You will be controlling cell numbers  heights  etc from the storyboard  In this case  you will see a table view that is exactly the same from your phone compared with what you created from the storyboard  Static cells are more often used for setting page  which the cells do not change a lot    To control UI elements for a static cell  you will indeed need to connect them directly to your view controller  and set them up

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As most people have pointed out that subclassing UITableViewCell solves this issue  But the reason this not allowed because the prototype cell UITableViewCell  is defined by Apple and you cannot add any of your own outlets to it

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If you re using a table view to display Settings and other options  like the built-in Settings app does   then you can set your Table View Content to Static Cells under the Attributes Inspector   Also  to do this  you must embedded your Table View in a UITableViewController instance

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