I have an iOS app targeting iOS 8 and 9 which I'm in the process of upgrading to use Storyboard References instead of links through code. I've gradually converted more and more bits over, when suddenly I started getting this compiler error:
: error: Deploying Storyboard References to iOS 8.0 requires that your storyboards do not share any view controller identifiers. A.storyboard and Z.storyboard both contain a view controller with identifier "ZNavigationController".
Z.storyboard
absolutely contains ZNavigationController
, it's supposed to be there, however A.storyboard
assuredly does not contain any such navigation controller. I've opened the .storyboard file in a text editor and verified that there is no mention of ZNavigationController
.
To give some more context:
A.storyboard
has a reference to B.storyboard
, and it has a manual segue from one of the viewControllers in A
B.storyboard
has a reference to Z.storyboard
- it gets there via a manual segue from one of the viewControllers in B
Running XCode Version 7.0 (7A218) which is the GM seed build
Found the problem (I'm using Xcode 7.1.1).
After using Product --> Refactor to storyboard, it create a storyboard references with a storyboard ID same than the reference ID (attributes & identity inspector).
This is a bug, storyboard ID should be nil and only the reference ID should be filled.
Update #1 :
When creating multiple storyboard reference using "Refactor to storyboard", it create the same object ID which cause this error too.
Update #2 :
Just don't use the "Refactor to storyboard" feature if you target iOS 8. It create multiple doublons with objectId which cause an error like :
/* com.apple.ibtool.errors */ : error: Deploying Storyboard References to iOS 8.0 requires that your storyboards do not share any view controller identifiers. Category.storyboard and Home.storyboard both contain a view controller with identifier "UIViewController-BX3-FJ-k0T".
I did a bit more digging and it turns out that even though A.storyboard
didn't have anything with that storyboard ID, there was a controller in B.storyboard
and also in Z.storyboard
which both had the Storyboard ID of ZNavigationController
.
The one in B.storyboard
had an incorrect ID which I removed.
Looks like Xcode is misattributing the (correct) error to A.storyboard
instead of B
First you need to find which Reference is doubled
UIViewController-5kv-Ul-Bah - it was my error
Press cmd + 3 and input id (5kv-Ul-Bah) without "UIViewController-" find doubled references
You should see something like this
In my case it is InvitationDetails.storyboard and Location.storyboard
You have 2 options:
Option 1: Remove Storyboard Reference from storyboard and add another one (do this with my other instructions https://stackoverflow.com/a/33753164/2493555)
Option 2: Open new created storyboard as source code
then find our id and change it to another like "5kv-Ul-Bahxx" (I add xx postfix) but you need to be sure that string "5kv-Ul-Bahxx" is not exist in project (by pressing cmd + 3 and find)
- Click on the offending storyboard reference
- Open the identity inspector
- Delete the "Storyboard ID".
As far as I can tell, there's no need to reference a reference, and this seems to be the thing it's complaining about. When you use 'refactor to storyboard', it leaves the storyboard id in the reference.