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Jesse Stewart Total Posts: 67 Joined: 2008-02-18 Salt Lake City, Utah Ignore user	Ive tried everything I can think of. I need to default category view to be a two column layout with the shopping cart and compare items on the left. I have tried editing numerous xml files with numerous different things and nothing seems to change at all. I was able to set the layout of an individual category through the admin, but i would rather change the default view to make it easier for future changes. v1.0 is great! Thanks everyone at Varien and this community for making it the best ecommerce solution available, period. Image Attachments Click thumbnail to see full-size image Signature Jesse Stewart Creative Graphic design and web.
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Jesse Stewart Total Posts: 67 Joined: 2008-02-18 Salt Lake City, Utah Ignore user	<catalog_category_default> <reference name="root"> <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-left.phtml</template></action> </reference> <reference name="left"> <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" after="currency" template="catalog/navigation/left.phtml"/> </reference> <reference name="content"> <block type="catalog/category_view" name="category.products" template="catalog/category/view.phtml"> <block type="catalog/product_list" name="product_list" template="catalog/product/list.phtml" /> </block> </reference> </catalog_category_default> If i am correct, that should show only the left bar, but every category page still uses the 3 column layout. Signature Jesse Stewart Creative Graphic design and web.
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Jesse Stewart Total Posts: 67 Joined: 2008-02-18 Salt Lake City, Utah Ignore user	It appears to be an issue with caching. Signature Jesse Stewart Creative Graphic design and web.
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Jesse Stewart Total Posts: 67 Joined: 2008-02-18 Salt Lake City, Utah Ignore user	I love replying to my own topic. I’ve been playing around and created more questions for myself then I have answered. I can’t seem to get the shopping cart on the left side of the page in the category view. I was able to get it to be a 2 column layout and I was able to get compare products on the left. Shopping cart doesn’t want to budge. Signature Jesse Stewart Creative Graphic design and web.
	Posted: April 1 2008 \| top \| # 3

andyellis_2000 Total Posts: 41 Joined: 2008-02-15 Ignore user	I am glad you are enjoying your conversation with yourself. Just as a thought, you are familiar with the templates \app\design\frontend\default\default\template\callouts\right_col.phtml \app\design\frontend\default\default\template\callouts\left_col.phtml I made some changes to mine via those pages, the customer service thing (which I made my own) is now on the left, and replaced the blackboaord with a random tips script Maybe those pages will help you with what you are trying. I suspect you can put the cart code into the let col phtml file, but not sure.
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Jesse Stewart Total Posts: 67 Joined: 2008-02-18 Salt Lake City, Utah Ignore user	This should be done with an xml file, but I can’t seem to get it right. Also, what happened to main.xml? Signature Jesse Stewart Creative Graphic design and web.
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Jesse Stewart Total Posts: 67 Joined: 2008-02-18 Salt Lake City, Utah Ignore user	looks like main.xml is depreciated. Can anyone help me figure out how to move mini-cart to the left side. Image Attachments Click thumbnail to see full-size image Signature Jesse Stewart Creative Graphic design and web.
	Posted: April 1 2008 \| top \| # 6

karynn Total Posts: 69 Joined: 2008-02-07 Ignore user	Just posting an update, since I couldn’t find the answer on this page for changing the default page layout for all categories. The file to update is \app\design\frontend\default\default\layout\page.xml —the reference to the template is right at the top. Before: `<default> <block type="page/html" name="root" output="toHtml" template="page/3columns.phtml">` After: `<default> <block type="page/html" name="root" output="toHtml" template="page/2columns-left.phtml">` To move the mini cart, see the exercise on this page: http://www.magentocommerce.com/design_guide/articles/intro-to-layouts
	Posted: May 13 2008 \| top \| # 7

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