My customer brought up an interesting requirement to filter their document library to show just the last approved versions when content approval and major/minor versions applied.

Any unpublished document – that is a document where the major version is 0 will not show up in the filter. Any document that has a major version number greater than 0 and is in draft or pending status – e.g a document at version 1.1 – will only show a link to the last published version.

Turns out the solution was quite easy and involved just adding some query string parameters…

?IncludeVersions=TRUE&FilterField1=_ModerationStatus&FilterValue1=0&FilterField2=_IsCurrentVersion&FilterValue2=1

The IncludeVersions parameter instructs the list view to show all versions. Then it’s a simple case of filtering on the most current version of each item where not in moderation state.