# Is there an official way to declare data model and store and retrieve data from custom database tables within tasks

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**Category:** Flowable Application\
**Created:** [February 1, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/is-there-an-official-way-to-declare-data-model-and-store-and-retrieve-data-from-custom-database-tables-within-tasks/3369 "2019-02-01T16:36:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robinyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Robinyo](https://forum.flowable.org/u/Robinyo)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/is-there-an-official-way-to-declare-data-model-and-store-and-retrieve-data-from-custom-database-tables-within-tasks/3369/4 "2019-02-04T00:55:27Z")

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Hi @m.farahat

Often the functionality associated with finding a user’s manager is provided via a [directory server](https://forum.flowable.org/t/configuring-user-task-based-on-parameter-from-task/3278/6?u=robinyo)

Another approach would be to provide a RESTful service that returns a user’s manager. You could try out this approach using [json-server](https://github.com/typicode/json-server) and Flowable’s [Http Task](https://www.flowable.org/docs/userguide/index.html#bpmnHttpTask).

You can send an email using Flowable’s [Email Task](https://www.flowable.org/docs/userguide/index.html#bpmnEmailTask).

Cheers  
Rob

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