Set layout Magento in advanced search - magento-1.7

Question

I have several stores with different layouts. When I make a search in a store, the result is displayed with the default layout. If I call getStore by AdvancedController, the result is correct but the page has incorrect layout.
In the default layout:
<catalogsearch_advanced_result translate="label">
<label>Advanced Search Result</label>
<reference name="root">
<action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-right.phtml</template></action>
</reference>
<reference name="catalogsearch_advanced_result">
<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>4</columns></action>
</reference>
</catalogsearch_advanced_result>
while in another store layout:
<catalogsearch_advanced_result translate="label">
<label>Advanced Search Result</label>
<!-- Mage_Catalogsearch -->
<reference name="root">
<action method="setTemplate"><template>page/3columns.phtml</template></action>
</reference>
<reference name="catalogsearch_advanced_result">
<action method="setColumnCount"><columns>3</columns></action>
</reference>
</catalogsearch_advanced_result>
The result from each store is always displayed with the default layout.
How I can resolve it?

Answer 1

The Advanced Search Results layout is controlled through your theme's catalogsearch.xml layout file.
You can either modify that or override it using a local.xml layout file and change the template used for the advanced search results;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<layout>
<!-- Advanced search result -->
<catalogsearch_advanced_result>
<reference name="root">
<action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
</reference>
</catalogsearch_advanced_result>
</layout>
If you are changing the catalogsearch.xml and scratching your head as to why the layout isn't changing in your site then first of all verify that the theme author/other developers haven't already overridden this in local.xml