Actually the best way to do this is through the whitelist with control plane security ON, because whatever you put into the whitelist (name, ap-group) will automatically name the access point and put it into an ap-group. There is a process, however:
1. Send an englarged copy of the floor plan with physical AP locations to the team mounting access points (names are not important for now) along with APs that are still in the box (or you can have a team take them out of the box, your choice.)
2. Have the crew that mounts the APs tear off the AP sticker and place it onto the paper floor plan where they actually put the access point. (they can put any access point anywhere, really).
3. Have the mounting crew give the englarged diagram back to the WLAN engineering team.
4. The engineering team can then use a barcode scanner to scan the barcodes add the AP mac address/ to the whitelist and name them at the same time.
5. When the access points come up, they will have the correct name and ap-group, based on the cpsec whitelist.
6. If you are using Airwave, that will carry over and you can also place them on the RF plan floor map.
*The big issue with having a crew mount access points is that frequently the access points get lost and mixed up and the wrong access points are mounted in the wrong place, and your floor plan/names are wrong. If you allow the crew to instead say where they placed the access point by simply putting the AP sticker on a diagram, this is much more accurate. The administrator can name the access points in the whitelist by scanning the sticker on the map and naming it AFTER they are mounted.
You can of course enter the names before they are mounted, but you are counting on the mounting crew to be perfect...