iphone - How to remove a Static Cell from a UITableView designed in StoryBoard

Question

The solution is probably very simple, but I couldn't just find it .. !

Working with storyboard (iOS 5), I have a tableViewController, and a designed STATIC tableview with 5 sections, with differents static cell inside each section.

My question is: How to delete a cell programatically in the viewWillAppear?

For example, I have a cell designed for a date

IBOutlet UITableViewCell * cellForDate;

And.. if there's not date, I want to remove my cell.

cellForDate.hidden = true; //Hide the cell, but leave a blank space

Ive tried [tableView deleteRowsAtIndexPaths...] didn't work

Anyone got an idea?

Answer 1

Try to hide the cell before it is shown, in UITableViewDelegate's tableView:willDisplayCell:forRowAtIndexPath: method. That's the final method where you can manipulate the cell's appearance. This however won't remove the space the cell should take, so another thing you can try is to set cell row's height to 0 using the tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath: method of the same protocol.

Another method, which is most robust, is to devise a method for determining whether you need the date cell in the section and depending on the result, return the proper number of rows in the section, and return other section row cells taking the situation into account. And then reload tableView's data on viewWillAppear.