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# criteriaCount

Update: Please use our updated [Hibernate Criteria Builder](/v1.x/coldbox-criteria-builder.md) objects instead so you can have much more control, granularity and coolness!

Get the record count using hibernate projections and criterion for specific queries

## Returns

* This function returns *numeric*

## Arguments

| Key        | Type  | Required | Default | Description                                                 |
| ---------- | ----- | -------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| entityName | any   | Yes      | ---     | The entity to run count projections on                      |
| criteria   | array | No       | \[]     | The array of hibernate criterion to use for the projections |

## Examples

```javascript
// The following is handler code which has been wired with a virtual entity service

property name="authorService" inject="entityService:Author";

function showAuthors(event){
var rc = event.getCollection();
// Get the hibernate restrictions proxy object
var restrictions = authorService.getRestrictions();
// build criteria
var criteria = [];
// Apply a "greater than" constraint to the named property
ArrayAppend(criteria, restrictions.ge("firstName","M"));

// Get the criteria query first        
prc.example1 = authorService.criteriaQuery(criteria=criteria, offset=(prc.boundaries.STARTROW-1), max=getSetting("PagingMaxRows"), sortOrder="firstName ASC");

// get the total records found via projections
prc.foundcount = authorService.criteriaCount(criteria=criteria);
}
```


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