UITableView Edit mode

Question

I have UITableView and I am trying to load it by default in edit mode. The problem is when I this line table.editing=TRUE; my rows disappear, I implemented this methods:

- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
// Return NO if you do not want the specified item to be editable.
return YES;
}

- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
return UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete;
}


 - (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
 {
 return NO;
 }

but with no luck. What should I do?

Ahmad Kayyali · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-29T11:03:25.583

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as Anish pointed to using

[tableView setEditing: YES animated: YES];

But you need to have it in viewWillAppear view event to make it work.

edited Jan 29 '15 at 11:03

answered May 14 '11 at 12:39

Ahmad Kayyali

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Yes this worked but made my right button disappear. How could i stop this. – user739509 May 14 '11 at 12:44
you mean `self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem`? why don't you also try adding it in `viewWillAppear`? – Ahmad Kayyali May 14 '11 at 12:45
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No.I mean that i had a button where you could move to another page. – user739509 May 14 '11 at 12:48
It existed in normal mode.I mean the accessory button. – user739509 May 14 '11 at 12:51
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are you adding `[cell.editingAccessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator;];` in `cellForRowAtIndexPath` delegate? – Ahmad Kayyali May 14 '11 at 12:54
You need to have a look to this [editingAccessoryType](http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UITableViewCell_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UITableViewCell/editingAccessoryType) – Ahmad Kayyali May 14 '11 at 12:58

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '11 at 12:37

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try this...

[tableView setEditing: YES animated: YES];

answered May 14 '11 at 12:37

Anish

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No luck. I also tried realoding data after setting the edit mode: [table reloadData]; – user739509 May 14 '11 at 12:41
have a look at here...http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UITableView_Class/Reference/Reference.html – Anish May 14 '11 at 12:44

Hardik Thakkar · Answer 3 · 2016-05-05T04:52:41.087

In ViewDidLoad write

UIBarButtonItem *addButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Edit" style: UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(addORDoneRows)];
[self.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem:addButton];

addORDoneRow

- (void)addORDoneRows
{
    if(self.editing)
    {
        [super setEditing:NO animated:NO];
        [_dbSongsTblView setEditing:NO animated:NO];
        [_dbSongsTblView reloadData];
        [self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem setTitle:@"Edit"];
        [self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem setStyle:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain];
    }
    else
    {
        [super setEditing:YES animated:YES];
        [_dbSongsTblView setEditing:YES animated:YES];
        [_dbSongsTblView reloadData];
        [self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem setTitle:@"Done"];
        [self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem setStyle:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone];
    }
}

For MultipleSelection of Row

 - (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    return YES;
}

- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    return UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone;
}

Note: There are Three Editiing Style as below

UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone,
UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete,
UITableViewCellEditingStyleInsert

Note: And for multiple Selection set Selection and Editing Style to Multiple from Attribute inspector

was there a reason to call `reloadData`? In my case it isn't, apart that disables the animation when entering/exiting from edit mode — rgkobashi, Sep 10 '21 at 05:38

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 09 '16 at 12:53

To load a tableView in edit mode you should call setEditing(true, animated: false) in viewDidLoad().

If your view controller is a subclass of UITableViewController there's no need to change, just make the above call. Otherwise if your view controller is a subclass of UIViewController, then you should make a call in this way: tableView.setEditing(true, animated: true).

Tested with Swift 2.2.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 09 '16 at 19:38

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[self.tableView setEditing:!self.tableView.isEditing animated:YES];

answered Jun 09 '16 at 19:38

George

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