Setting a property in a segue with Navigation Controller containing another view

Question

Since the destination view controller is actually the navigation controller, try accessing the root view like so:

UINavigationController *navController = [segue destinationViewController];
ShowItemsTableViewController *SITViewController = (ShowItemsTableViewController *)([navController viewControllers][0]);
[SITViewController setItems:[self itemsFromCoreData]];

For Swift:

override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
    if segue.identifier == "segueShowNavigation" {
        var DestViewController = segue.destinationViewController as! UINavigationController
        let targetController = DestViewController.topViewController as! ReceiveViewController
    }
}

Get the topViewController from the UINavigationController:

- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"showItems"]) {
        UINavigationController *navigationController = segue.destinationViewController;
        ShowItemsTableViewController *showItemsTVC = (ShowItemsTableViewController * )navigationController.topViewController;
        showItemsTVC.items = [self itemsFromCoreData];
    }
}