Dropdown menu script to install specific comp policy

[sslavieroGSMA]

Hi All,

I'm looking to do something clever, but my scripting knowledge is pretty limited.

I want to create a script which pops a dialog box up on screen with a few options to select from:

London
Atlanta
Hong Kong
etc.

The option select would then install the relevant computer policy via a trigger.

I want to use to this for RescueAssist to install the correct package depending on Office location when building the laptop.

Cheers,
Steve

[tlarkin]

I wrote this many years ago when I worked at jamf as a POC for a site chooser script, this may help you in the right direction. Just tested it on 10.14.6 and it still runs

#!/bin/bash

# set multiple site enrollment via one quick add package

getSite() {

theSite=$(osascript <<AppleScript

set mySites to {"Minneapolis", "Cupertino", "New York", "Hong Kong", "Amsterdam", "Eau Claire"}

set selectedSite to {choose from list mySites}

AppleScript

echo "${theSite}"
)
}

getSite

echo "${theSite}"

# now select invitation codes
# put site names with spaces in single quotes

case ${theSite} in
    Minneapolis) 
        invCode='1234567890';;
    Cupertino)
        invCode='0987654321';;
    'New York')
        invCode='6789012345';;
    'Hong Kong')
        invCode='8901234567';;
    Amsterdam)
        invCode='3456789012';;
    'Eau Claire')
        invCode='4567890123';;
esac

echo "put your enrollment command here with code ${invCode}"

exit 0

[howie_isaacks]

This helped me. Thanks!

[IT-Chris]

Is there away to change make a selection to something else?

[sslavieroGSMA]

Thanks @tlarkin I'll take a look at this.

QQ - say I pick Amsterdam, if I want to run a command like:

jamf policy -event <triggerName>

Can I just replace the : invCode='3456789012';; part??

Cheers, Steve

[tlarkin]

@sslavieroGSMA correct, you can put any unix command in there

[sslavieroGSMA]

@tlarkin Does this look correct??

#!/bin/bash

# set multiple site enrollment via one quick add package

getSite() {

theSite=$(osascript <<AppleScript

set mySites to {"London", "Atlanta", "Hong Kong"}

set selectedSite to {choose from list mySites}

AppleScript

echo "${theSite}"
)
}

getSite

echo "${theSite}"

# now select invitation codes
# put site names with spaces in single quotes

case ${theSite} in
    London) 
        jamf policy -event rescuelondon;;
    Atlanta)
        jamf policy -event rescueatlanta;;
    'Hong Kong')
        jamf policy -event rescuehongkong;;
esac

exit 0

The idea is to select the location and it will go off and run the select Policy via it's trigger.

I pop this script in a Policy, which I can use during deployment > which in turn runs the policy I want to install the correct software.

[tlarkin]

@sslavieroGSMA

It looks like it might work, have you tested it? That script I gave you I wrote really fast for either a POC or some sort of training I cannot remember as it was easily 6+ years ago at this point. You just need to test and tweak for your needs. I also had some redundant echo commands in there when I was writing this. This is literally a 5 minute job, not much debugging and definitely no code tidy up at all. So, just make sure you keep on testing it out.