[TYPO3-calendar] Event view in list

[Michael McManus]

Hi Mario,

Yep, what you suggest is pretty much what I'm doing. Glad to know that I 
wasn't too far off the mark.

Thanks for your reply :)

-michael

On 6/15/11 12:05 PM, Mario Matzulla wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Am 15.06.11 03:04, schrieb 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.
>
> What about a list view with max = 1 and starttime = now ?
> BTW: you can adjust each plugin through its own typoscript field in the
> flexform. So you could have a different template for the next upcoming
> event, which could look like the single event ;)
>
> Regards,
> Mario
>>
>> All the Best,
>> Michael
>