Question

So, using storyboard you can create a segue from the UITableViewCell from the first tableViewController to a detailViewController.

Not too complicated, however, when a UISearchBarDisplayController is introduced into the storyboard mix, how can you segue the results cell to the detailViewController?

I am able to search without a problem, I followed this tutorial: http://clingingtoideas.blogspot.com/2010/02/uitableview-how-to-part-2-search.html

All I can do is select a row from the search, it turns blue and doesn’t go to the detailViewController.

I have implemented the method prepareForSegue, which works for the non searched cells, but can’t figure out this one.

Answer 1

Ok I think I got it, it seems like a bit of a hack but it works for my purposes:

I am using storyboard:
I have a UITableview controller with UISearchBarDisplayController directly on top of it. No code just drag and drop.

From there, I followed this tutorial to get the search bar to search correctly http://clingingtoideas.blogspot.com/2010/02/uitableview-how-to-part-2-search.html

However prepareForSegue: would only let me display a cell from the original array, not with the search array.

So I used didSelectRowAtIndexPath:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if (savedSearchTerm) {
    searchRowSelected = indexPath.row;  //<-- the trick that worked
    [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"ShowDetail" sender:self];
}
}

searchRowSelected is an int variable that I declared at the top of the class.

didSelectRowAtIndexPath: knew which row I was selecting, but prepareForSegue didn’t. Thats why I needed that variable.

This is how I used it in prepareForSegue:

-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender{
if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:@"ShowDetail"]) {

    dvc = [segue destinationViewController];

    NSIndexPath* path = [self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];
    int row = [path row];

    if (savedSearchTerm){   //set the detailViewController with the searched data cell 
        myDataClass* c = [searchResults objectAtIndex:searchRowSelected];
        dvc.myDataClass = c;
    }else{    //set the detailViewController with the original data cell
       myDataClass* c = [array objectAtIndex:row];
       dvc.myDataClass = c;
   }
}
}

Also use this code to clean up savedSearchTerm

-(void) searchDisplayControllerWillEndSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller{
    [self setSavedSearchTerm:nil];
}

If anyone has a better solution I’m all ears 🙂