[TYPO3-calendar] Event view in list

[Michael McManus]

Hi Everybody,

I've searched through the list and found a few threads that address 
issues similar to the one I'm encountering, but there's a particular 
aspect of what I'm doing that I haven't seen discussed. Apologies in 
advance if this has in fact already been mentioned.

Similarly to Sebastian's question from a few days ago, I'm trying to 
render an event and list view on the same page. I want to render the 
event view for the top-most item in the list.

Just like Sebastian, "i have got a cal plugin on the left showing the 
event-list and another plugin on the right. The right one has got the 
allowed views list and singleEvent, so i can show the upcomingevent on 
page load (using the List) and when i click on an event(link) in the 
list(left plugin) the page reloads and the choosen event shows up in my 
right plugin."

My question is, what's the best way to use the event (single) template 
for the upcoming event that shows on page load?

My current solution is to make a few alternate templates and then 
override the typoscript used by the one list view, like so:

view.list.listTemplate = fileadmin/ext/cal/single_and_list-list.html
view.event.eventModelTemplate = fileadmin/ext/cal/single_and_list-model.html

view.list.event.description < .view.event.event.description
view.list.event.enddate < .view.event.event.enddate
view.list.event.startdate < .view.event.event.startdate
view.list.event.endtime < .view.event.event.endtime
view.list.event.location < .view.event.event.location

I'm thinking that there's gotta be a better/more efficient way to do 
this, no?

Again, sorry if I'm missing something obvious :) Working on a really 
tight deadline.

Alternatively, if there's a way to just use the event view to render the 
next upcoming event, advice on that approach would also be extremely 
appreciated.

All the Best,
Michael