I have a view controller called vc0 which is presented like this:

```
[self presentViewController: vc1 animated: YES completion: nil];

```

And in vc1 I have a button to present another view controller:

```
[self presentViewController: vc2 animated: YES completion: nil];

```

Then in vc2, I have a button to dismiss the view controller:

```
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion: ^{
// over here I call one method in vc1
}

```

And as expected it returns back to vc1.. however there is a button in vc1 to go back to vc0 by dismissing the view controller like this:

```
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];

```

But for some reason it doesn't work, the view controller does not get dismissed back to vc0. When I first present vc1, I can press the button to dismiss the view controller and it works. But when I press the button to open vc2, and when I dismiss vc2 back to vc1, and THEN I press the button to dismiss the view controller, that is when it doesn't work.

Sorry if the question is a bit unclear, it is a bit hard to phrase what I am trying to say.

Also one more thing:

I tried replacing `dismissViewControllerAnimated:` in vc1 to manually present vc0, but then I get a log in the console saying that I am trying to present a vc0 but vc1's view is not in the window hierarchy. What does this mean?

Thanks for help!

UPDATE:

**IN THIS CASE VC0 IS `MenuMileIndexViewController` - VC1 IS `FlightViewController` - VC2 IS `BookmarksTableViewController`**

Here is code involved:

> 
> MenuMileIndexViewController:
> 
> 
> 

```
- (IBAction)goToOriginPage {

FlightRecorder *origin = [[FlightRecorder alloc] init];
[self presentViewController:origin animated:YES completion:nil];

}

```

> 
> Flight Recorder:
> 
> 
> 

```
    - (void)searchBarBookmarkButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar {

        [self bringUpBookmarkkTable];
}

- (void) bringUpBookmarkkTable {

    BookmarkTableViewController *bookmarkTVC = [[BookmarkTableViewController alloc] init];

    [bookmarkTVC setModalTransitionStyle: UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal];

    [self presentViewController:bookmarkTVC animated:YES completion:nil];
}

- (IBAction)cancel {

[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];

}

- (void)endBookmarkProcessWithBookmarkCollection: (NSDictionary *)dict {

    presetBookmarkContext = [dict mutableCopy];

    bookmarkMode = YES;

    NSString *compiledText = nil;

    NSNumber *number1 = [NSNumber numberWithInt: 1];

    if ([dict objectForKey: @"bookmarkTag"] == number1) {

        compiledText = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@ to %@", [dict objectForKey: @"origin"], [dict objectForKey: @"destination"]];
    }
    else {

        compiledText = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%@ to %@", [dict objectForKey: @"destination"], [dict objectForKey: @"origin"]];
    }

    compiledText = [compiledText stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"Origin: " withString:@""];

    compiledText = [compiledText stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"Destination: " withString:@""];

    flightContext = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [dict objectForKey: @"miles"], @"miles", compiledText, @"location", [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey: @"tempD"], @"date", nil];

    NSString *string = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"\nMiles: %.2f\nFlight: %@\nDate: %@", [[dict objectForKey: @"miles"] floatValue], compiledText, [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"tempD"]];

    UIAlertView *bvkBookmarkAlertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Confirmation" message:string delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"Add", nil];

    [bvkBookmarkAlertView show];
}

 - (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView didDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {

    if (buttonIndex == 1) {

        [self cancel]; // Even though cancel is an IBAction, IBAction is the same thing as void so it is callable
    }
}

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {

    if (buttonIndex == 1) {

        [TheMileIndexViewController addDesiredMilesToIndex: [[flightContext objectForKey: @"miles"] doubleValue]];

        [TravelLogViewController addFlight: flightContext];

        if (!bookmarkMode) {

            if ([checkbox isSelected]) {

                [BookmarkHandler uploadBookmark: bookmarkFlightContext];
            }    
        }
    }

    if (buttonIndex == 0) {

        if ([alertView.title isEqualToString: @"Confirmation"]) {

            bookmarkMode = NO;
        }
    }

}

```

> 
> BookmarksTableViewController:
> 
> 
> 

```
    - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated: YES];

    NSDictionary *dict = [[BookmarkHandler bookmarkCollection] objectAtIndex: indexPath.row];

    fl = [[FlightRecorder alloc] init];

    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^{

        [fl endBookmarkProcessWithBookmarkCollection: dict];
    }];
}

```

NOW, I have created a screen recording of the app in simulator showing what is the problem. I can email that to you for reference. So I can email that to you.