@casafrancisco totally possible and something we do today. We utilize country, business unit name, and a portion of the machine serial number to name computers. I spoke about it in my JNUC preso last year and you can find a sanitized version of the script we use here:
namingTEMPLATE.sh
You can walk back from that script to get to the PDF of the presentation. The slide showing the dialogs is towards the end.
Basically, we use cocoa dialog to ask for the information, then based on the info we set the name. This should do the trick to ask for the department, grab the user name and capitalize it, combine the two, and then set the name on the computer using the jamf binary.
You will obviously need to install cocoaDialog on the systems before you can run this.
#!/bin/bash
# cocoaDialog path
CD="/usr/local/bin/cocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/cocoaDialog"
currUser=`python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or [None])[0]; username = [username,""][username in [u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + "
");'`
department=`$CD standard-dropdown --height 125 --text "Please choose the department:" --float --no-cancel --title "Department" --items "Pharmacy" "Physical Therapy" "Physician Assistant" --string-output --icon gear`
department=`echo ${department} | cut -d' ' -f2-`
case ${department} in
'Pharmacy')
deptCode='RX'
;;
'Physical Therapy')
deptCode='PT'
;;
'Physician Assistant')
deptCode='PA'
;;
esac
## uppercase user name
currUser=`echo ${currUser} | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`
## buid computer name
computerName="${deptCode}-${currUser}"
# update Jamf
/usr/local/bin/jamf setComputerName -name ${computerName}
exit 0
