Posted on by tania

Using Trigger to present a form

I use Trigger in our Mac deployment workflow to prompt the deployment technician on the details of the Mac’s end user. I use this information to then create the user account, enable the newly created account for FileVault, and to give them administrator rights, if required.

All of this is run from the one JSS script that:

  • creates the HTML file to present in the web view,
  • runs Trigger so that the web view is presented (and waits for the user to click one of the two button options,
  • parses the results and then calls the functions required to create the user account, enabled FileVault, and provide administrator rights accordingly.
Example web view to prompt the deployment tech for the end-user details
Javascript function in the web view code prevents the Create button from working until all three input textfields are filled, and highlights the fields that are missing.I

For the sake of simplicity, I’ve commented out the functions that do the actual grunt work of creating the user account and enabling FileVault, but I will share the code in a future post if there is any interest.