Editing the Menu layout

[rrehn]

Hello, I have a problem regarding the structure of the customer menu.

As you can see in the screenshot, when I enter the 'Account Dashboard' the menu is on the right side: Account Dashboard.

This is exactly the layout I want. The problem is hower that whenever I click on any other in the menu, the menu moves to the left side, as can be seen here: Customer Menu.

Can somebody help me and tell me how to change / edit the layout of those pages so the menu always stays on the right side?

Regards!

[AddWebSolution]

Goto magento root directory app\design\frontend\my_pakage\my_theme\layout\customer.xml

Edit and perform changes as per the below steps.

Step 1:  Find <customer_account translate="label">  in customerxml file and  the below code 

<reference name="root">
                <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-left.phtml</template></action>
                <action method="addBodyClass"><class>customer-account</class></action>
</reference>

Replace the above by below code:

<reference name="root">
                <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-right.phtml</template></action>
                <action method="addBodyClass"><class>customer-account</class></action>
</reference>

Step 2:  Find <reference name="left_first">  and replace the changes as shown below.

<reference name="left_first"> To <reference name="right">

Step 3: Find <customer_account_index translate="label"> and replace the changes as shown below.

<reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-left.phtml</template></action>
</reference>

Replace the above code with below provided code:

<reference name="root">
        <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-right.phtml</template></action>
</reference>

Hope this helps.

[rrehn]

Hey there,

thanks for the help, this worked pretty well. Now I have a different problem though, which is very strange.

The menu is on the right side and stays there, but there are now two menu blocks below each other. I checked with firebug and for some reason two 'block-account' blocks are created.

I had the same problem before with the cart, which was also shown two times at one point, which I presume is because I am using a custome theme. I was able to 'solve' this by changing the sidebar of the cart to the right sidebar, which I don't use, but that is a rather bad way of doing things as I know.

I presume the problem comes from the xml file where the sidebar is created.

Here is a screenshot how the sidebar looks now with both customer menus and with both carts:

http://i.imgur.com/sSF8owE.jpg

Any other blocks that would be on the right sidebar are deaktivated.

[AddWebSolution · Accepted solution]

@rrhen The possibility of menu blocks displaying two times can be: 

If local.xml is there it would be placed in your custome Theme at the below path: app/design/frontend/your_package/your_theme/template/layout/local.xml 

Menu's code is called twice in both files local.xml and customer.xml.  So you can remove code from any one of the file.

[rrehn]

Thank you very much, everything is working now!

[AddWebSolution]

Pleasure! @rrehn 

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