Reusing UIViewController for two tab bar items

Question

I have 1 tab bar controller in the storyboard and 1 associated UIViewController. I would like to reuse the same UIViewController to create a second item in the tab bar. When I create a second relation from the tab bar to view the controller, I need to specify 2 different element names. How can I reuse the same view controller and set different element names from the storyboard? If this cannot be done in the storyboard, then do I need to rename each of them in the controller class of the tab bar or is there a better way?

I was going to provide different data to view the controller in prepareforsegue.

UPDATE:

a bit more details and clarifications

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Answer 4

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In a subclass ("GeneralNavCont") of these navigation controllers; I override the init method and check the recovery identifier self. Then I launch my TableViewController and set its data source based on these identifiers:

class GeneralNavCont: UINavigationController {

   var dataSource1 = [Countries]()
   var dataSource2 = [Cities]()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.

    }

     required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
            super.init(coder: aDecoder)
            initiateTableVCBasedOnId()
        }

      func initiateTableVCBasedOnId() {
            let storyBoard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
            let tableVC = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "tableVC") as! MyTableViewController

            if self.restorationIdentifier == "navCont1" {
                tableVC.dataSource = self.dataSource1
                self.viewControllers = [tableVC]
            }
            else if self.restorationIdentifier == "navCont2" {
                tableVC.dataSource = self.dataSource2
                self.viewControllers = [tableVC]
            }

        }
}

Hope this helps someone. Greetings.