Hi,

I have been tasked with implementing a new set of designs for an Umbraco 8 website. I'm new specifically to Umbraco and come from more of a frontend background.

Would like to leave the pages using the old existing templates but implement a new V2 for example. This would allow me to change the template over one at a time for each page as I work through. Therefore leaving a fully working version in place for the untouched pages using the old version with no broken features.

I tried simply carrying out what I thought would be the correct steps below but get the following error.

Server Error in '/' Application. Cannot bind source content type XYZ.UmbracoDocTypeModels.PageName to model type XYZ.Common.ViewModels.PageNameViewModel.

Created as an example the following under Settings > Templates:

PageNameTemplate.cshtml (original) PageNameTemplateV2.cshtml (new) [copied source from original to keep simple for now]

Under Document Types > RootDocType > TemplatePage:

Added the PageNameTemplateV2 to the Allowed Templates.

Made a small comment non breaking change to the source for PageNameTemplateV2.cshtml to output in HTML .

Under Content I chose MyWorkingPage and changed the template from PageNameTemplate to PageNameTemplateV2.

    @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<PageNameViewModel>
@{
    Layout = "PageNameTemplateV2.cshtml";

        var pageName = Model.UmbracoModel as XYZ.UmbracoDocTypeModels.PageName;

}
<!--TESTING-->

Umbraco seems to want to force the Model Name to match which does not for V2.

Is there are way I can work around this or am I trying to go about this right way and there is another recommended method?

Many thanks.