# How to search by request number and by relative counters

**URL:** <https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/how-to-search-by-request-number-and-by-relative-counters/348>\
**Category:** Process Design\
**Created:** [February 9, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.workflowgen.com/t/how-to-search-by-request-number-and-by-relative-counters/348 "2006-02-09T21:52:31Z")\
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The User Portal search feature allows you to search by request number. This request number corresponds to the value of the `Request.Relative Id` macro (process request counter never reinitialized).

You can use one of the three request counters relative to each process, which are accessible via WorkflowGen macros (IN action parameters ):

- `Request.Relative Id` (process request counter never reinitialized)

- `Request.Month relative Id` (process request counter reinitialized at the beginning of the month)

- `Request.Year relative Id` (process requests counter reinitialized at the beginning of the year)

Otherwise, if you want to follow up on requests based on a process counter, you can specify the counter value as an IN parameter of the first action and follow-up on that process data based on that criteria.