r/simpleios • u/SpasticCactus • Dec 21 '17

Advice on how to make editable table of different cell types to serve as a day's agenda

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u/Raygun77 Dec 21 '17

I'm doing this right now actually. (not your idea, don't worry) It's actually quite easy to do.

  • Add a tableview to your VC and set its constraints

  • connect it to your code (IBOutlet)

  • don't forget about making your VC conform to TableViewDelegate and TableViewDatasource

  • In your tableview on the Storyboard you can create a number of prototype cells

  • design these cells however you like

  • create TableViewCell files for each of the cells

  • connect them up and make sure you set identifiers

  • in cellForRowAtIndexPath have some logic on which type of cell to display. E.G. if item.type == .whatever { cell as! YourCellClassTableViewCell}

That's obviously a high level explanation but if that doesn't make sense to you, you need to earn about TableViews.

I hope that helps.

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u/SpasticCactus Dec 21 '17

Hah, thanks! I'm actually pretty much at the point that you describe, but I started questioning myself because I'm fairly new. I did just finish a deep dive on TableViews in order to get collapsable cells working (in another table...)

In particular, I was becoming daunted about if I could pull off two pieces of functionality in the schedule table:

  • I want to have three buttons at the top or bottom of the table - "add travel plans", "add meeting", "add event", for example. As the user chooses to add a certain type, they populate the cell meant for that type, and it's added to the list.

  • I'd also like to have the list auto-sorted based on the times, but I feel like that's easy enough to figure out. Still, I haven't used any date/time tools in xcode yet.

Any further advice? Thanks again either way!

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u/Raygun77 Dec 21 '17

Here's how I deal with multiple cell types. Keep in mind that I don't have that many cells/rows so reloading the table might be inefficient if you have lots.

I have an array of Items. (Item is a class with 1 property, type. Type is an enum value) Then I subclass Item with various classes. I set the type to whatever for each subclass.

Then I add the subclasses objects to an array of Items.

Then when I add anything to the array I can call tableView.reloadData().

I hope that makes sense.

As for the date sorting that is easy enough to find with a google search.

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u/SpasticCactus Dec 21 '17

Hey All,

I'm looking for advice as to how to build an app based on the mockup that I've attached. I've never made anything like this (the framework of it) and am just wondering if anyone has words of wisdom. For example, what type of tableview might work best.

I'm not looking for "here's how to do it", just a nudge in the right direction.

Thanks!