Structural Area Reinforcement tag

[luis_brionesalonso]

I'm having an issue with my structural reinforcement tag. Im trying to make a tag that only shows information about the bar type and spacing if the Direction is turned on since I obviously don't want to tag a layer that isn't there. 

The more I try to achieve this the more it seems that the only possibility of achieving this is by creating a different label for each layer, linking them to a visibility parameter, and then creating a different tag type for each situation (Top Major Only, Top Major and Minor only, All layers visible, Bottom Major and Minor only) and so on. 

This seems like such a roundabout way of achieving something that seems like it such be the obvious default. Am I going crazy or not seeing an obvious solution to achieve this? 

The label includes Bar Type and spacing. Creating a conditional statement in the label doesn't work since I can't create a label of the Bar Type and SAR tags can't include the Bar Diameter as a parameter. 

Linking the visibility parameter to the Direction parameters also doesn't work. 

I attached a screenshot of what the label needs to show. Basically I want to achieve the same result but have the tag only show the information for layers that are actually present (Direction=YES).

[Tom_Kunsman]

can you post a test project with some rebar and your tag family? I sort of feel you might be trying to do to much in your tag. just my initial thought.

[luis_brionesalonso]

I can't really agree about wanting to do too much with the tag to be honest. Just want a Tag that only shows bar type and spacing of the layers that are present (or in other words, have their Direction set as YES) and have the ability to choose what parameters I include in it. 

The specific example is that I have an Area reinforcement with a Top Layer (Major + Minor) that is smaller than the Bottom Layer (Major + Minor). The only way to achieve this (that I know of) is to model two instances of SAR in the same plate, with different boundary lines. 

I need to tag these seperately, which is fine. But then I can't use my regular tag that shows bar type and spacing for every layer, since it shows info on the layers even if their direction is displayed as off. 

The usual solution is create visibility parameters and create two labels that have top layer info and bot layer info seperately, and then create a type for the top layers and bot layers. 

The reason I do not want to do this is that it becomes too easy to tag the wrong SAR element in for example a section since they are on top of each other. If the bar type and spacing of the 'missing' layers are the same then the tag will look fine. If you then make an adjustment to the SAR (and obviously only for the layers that are on) the change won't update in the tag since it's actually showing info on the layers that are missing, and thus not adjusted.  

I hope the attached file can illustrate what I mean a bit better.