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Hi all

Is there a way to change the default 3 products per row view in the magento category sections?

thanks

Version 1.4

Use action name="setColumnCount" in the catalog layout file

My catalog.xml file has the following line:

That’s the only reference to setColumnCount that I can find and I’m unable to get more than 3 products on one line in the category view.  I have ruled out a width issue and can see in the HTML that a separate UL is created for product number 4 causing it to start on a new row.

What am I doing wrong?

Which version of magento are you using up?

Can you give me the link to your site so I can probably look at?

Hi, did this ever get resolved? I have the same issue, in Magento 1.4

What worked for me was in catalog.xml right above:

I placed this code, like so:

There are 2 places that the “addColumnCountLayoutDepend” code exists. I just put the “setColumnCount” above both.

Flush the cache and I got 4 across.

aboswell - 01 May 2010 10:59 PM

What worked for me was in catalog.xml right above:

<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>empty</layout><count>6</count></action>

I placed this code, like so:

<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>4</columns></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>empty</layout><count>6</count></action>

There are 2 places that the “addColumnCountLayoutDepend” code exists. I just put the “setColumnCount” above both.

Flush the cache and I got 4 across.

Tried everything in the book and this was the only solution that was VERY easy to implement and worked right off the bat. Preesh!

+1
I searched for like 20 mins before finding this thread.  Brilliant, Aboswell - many thanks

insert the following snippet inside the layout tag inside your local.xml file

Under Category - Custom Design tab in the backend, I entered the following under Custom Layout Update:

<reference name="product_list">
<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>4</columns></action>
</reference>

I am using 2 columns with right bar as the Page Layout for the Category, and Magento version 1.5.0.1.

This worked!

Trilby - 11 March 2011 08:32 AM

Under Category - Custom Design tab in the backend, I entered the following under Custom Layout Update:

<reference name="product_list">
<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>4</columns></action>
</reference>

I am using 2 columns with right bar as the Page Layout for the Category, and Magento version 1.5.0.1.

This worked!

Works perfectly for me in 1.3.2.4. No tempering with files neccesary. Excellent!

Thanks. Adding the line worked.
I changes my layout of page.xml to 2 colums and found that only 3 products were being shown in a row.

Trilby - 11 March 2011 08:32 AM

<reference name="product_list">
<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>4</columns></action>
</reference>

Question, i use the attribute promotion to show articles in a grid view on the home page.
How to change the grid view to 4 products? So that the system is creating a ul with 4 li’s.

The example(s) on the top does not work for me :(
Thanks!

Magento 1.5.1.1

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Trilby - 11 March 2011 08:32 AM

Under Category - Custom Design tab in the backend, I entered the following under Custom Layout Update:

<reference name="product_list">
<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>4</columns></action>
</reference>

I am using 2 columns with right bar as the Page Layout for the Category, and Magento version 1.5.0.1.

This worked!

Excellent work! Well done!!!

Thank you aboswell. Works like a charm! :-D

Maybe others run across the same problem: if you want search results with 4 columns: It works like described by aboswell, just that you have to insert it into your catalogsearch.xml so that the two occurrencies look like this:

Doesn’t work for me - it changes on refresh but on another refresh 4 product per row become 3 again. Weird.