How to display all versions in a SharePoint list view page

This is a small article about several undocumented query parameters that can be used on SharePoint list view pages to extract and display additional list data, e.g. the previous versions of the displayed list items.
The parameter that forces the display of all versions of the list items is “IncludeVersions”, it can be used like this:

http://someserver/sites/1/docs/Forms/AllItems.aspx?IncludeVersions=TRUE

A big note here – when you click the context menu commands for the list items they will be applied on the latest version of the item, and for document libraries always the latest version of the document will be opened. So the net value here is only the possibility to see the differences between the values of the displayed fields in the different item versions.
[UPDATE: check this posting for a possible work-around]
Another parameter is the “RootFolder” one, especially when the value that is provided for it is the asterisk character – then it forces a flat view of the list items, analogous to the “RecursiveAll” view scope option:

http://someserver/sites/1/docs/Forms/AllItems.aspx?IncludeVersions=TRUE&RootFolder=*

And here is how using the “IncludeVersions” parameter in conjunction with the well known “FilterFieldN” and “FilerValueN” parameters you can display all latest approved versions of your list (as if you are a user with reader rights who can’t see the pending or draft versions, but sees the latest approved versions of the items that are now pending):

http://someserver/sites/1/docs/Forms/AllItems.aspx?IncludeVersions=TRUE&RootFolder=*&FilterField1=_ModerationStatus&FilterValue1=0&FilterField2=_IsCurrentVersion&FilterValue2=1

Note the fields used to filter all versions – the _ModerationStatus and _IsCurrentVersion, the value 0 for the moderation status field corresponds to the approval status “Approved”.