Trying to create a simple characters page and it's giving me:

variable [CHARACTER_COUNT] doesn't exist

I am passing in the variable into the view: Handler:

component extends="coldbox.system.EventHandler" secured {

	// Default Action
	function index( event, rc, prc ){
		prc.pageTitle = "Characters";

        var character_count = getInstance("character")
            .where("userid", auth().user().getID() ?: -1 )
            .count();

        if (character_count > 0 ) {

        var characters = getInstance("character")
            .where("id", auth().user().getID() ?: -1 );
        }

		event.setView( "characters/index", { character_count: character_count } );
	}

}

View:

<cfoutput>
		<h1>Characters</h1>
		<cfif character_count EQ 0>
			<p>No Characters, why not create one?</p>
		</cfif>
</cfoutput>

Any ideas?

Arguments passed to the view are available in the

args

struct, so you want to use

args.character_count

in the view