I’ve been using Core Data for about a week now, and really loving it, but one minor issue is that setting default values requires going through and setting up a temp interface to load the data, which I then do away with once I have the data seeded. Is there any way to edit values in a table, like how you can use phpMyAdmin to manipulate values in a MySQL database? Alternately, is there a way to write a function to import seed values from something like a Numbers spreadsheet if it doesn’t detect the storedata XML file?
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For your first question, you could edit the file directly but it’s highly recommended you don’t. How to edit it depends entirely on the store type you selected.
Regarding importing or setting up pre-generated data, of course: you can write code to manually insert entity instances into your Managed Object Context. There’s a dedicated section on this very topic in the documentation. Further, if you have a lot of data to import, there’s even a section on how to do this efficiently.