How to create tag with warning?

[Anonymous]

Hi 

We are tagging a railing to obtain its length but the problem encountering is that we would like a custom message to display base upon railing being a certain length. Controlled via 'if condition, true , false' statement.

The tag is set set as and we have a label reading length working but can't figure out how to get the length to speak to the preset warning message. 

Any ideas how to go about this

[L.Maas]

A tag just reads parameter values from the object it is connected to. So it can not be used to generate a awarning message.

I am not sure how and where you would generate and show this warning message.

A more common solution would be to create a schedule for this. In the schedule you can put the lengths. If needed you can use conditional formatting so that a length value will be highlighted with a colour when certain conditions are met (e.g length longer than certain value)

[barthbradley]

You might be able to get there through a Calculated Value in the Tag. 

[bin]

As mentioned by @barthbradley , something like this...

[Anonymous]

Yes this what i am trying to achieve!! 

I can't figure out how to get the length label linked someway to a custom parameter. 

How did you go about setting up the tag to state too short or too long?

[Anonymous]

Got the railing length parameter to speak to the custom parameter (travel distance) so that this would talk to the visibility parameters for the warning message on/off.  But in project environment the length does not trigger to warning text to appear or disappear. 

[bin · Accepted solution]

Visibility parameter won't work, but here is a workaround:

In your tag, create another label and add a calculated parameter to it.

Put in the formula: if(Length > 10000 mm, "Too Long....", " ") something like this, make sure there is a space between the two "

Here's the result: