Can I count the items in a collection, without loading the whole collection?

By Marcel admin, Created 16-FEB-2017, last editted 24-FEB-2017

I've got a collection varying between 50 to 500 tasks. I want to show these tasks in a list view in the front-end on which I want to apply pagination.

So I want to know how many items I've got in total (to count the number of pages I've got), but only load the first 20.

Is this possible?

EDIT: This is now possible using the count_full_collection() expression. See this topic for more info.

I've got a collection varying between 50 to 500 tasks. I want to show these tasks in a list view in the front-end on which I want to apply pagination. 
So I want to know how many items I've got in total (to count the number of pages I've got), but only load the first 20.
Is this possible?

EDIT: This is now possible using the count_full_collection() expression. See this topic for more info.

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