: Through integration with third-party font encoders, version 8.5 was commonly used to generate Code 39 and other barcode types for inventory and tracking systems. Integration & Development
CR 8.5 allowed a main report to pass a parameter to a subreport and the subreport to return a value to the main report (via Shared variables). This is incredibly powerful for complex summaries (e.g., "Top 10% of orders by region") but is notoriously fragile.