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Information about a facilities management system for a building can be obtained by a remote computer accessing a Web server at the facilities management system via the Internet. The Web server employs a generic Web page layout and an active server pages program to create a Web page that displays inf

Information about a facilities management system for a building can be obtained by a remote computer accessing a Web server at the facilities management system via the Internet. The Web server employs a generic Web page layout and an active server pages program to create a Web page that displays information from the facilities management system. This mechanism does not require that the Web pages be custom developed for each particular building and its unique system configuration. Instead, the present invention provides dynamic Web page construction based on the number of items of data supplied by the facilities management system to the Web server. A authoring tool for custom Web page layout also is provided.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A method for accessing a facilities management system comprising steps of:connecting a first computer to the facilities management system and to a communication network;executing a Web server program on the first computer to exchange messages over the communication networ

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A method for accessing a facilities management system comprising steps of:connecting a first computer to the facilities management system and to a communication network;executing a Web server program on the first computer to exchange messages over the communication network utilizing a Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP);connecting a second computer to the communication network;executing a Web browser program on the second computer to exchange messages over the communication network utilizing the TCP/IP;sending a request for information about the facilities management system from the second computer to the first computer;the first computer responding to receipt of the request by obtaining operational information from the facilities management system;the first computer executing an active server pages program to select predefined items of the operational information and create a Web page that contains the predefined items;transmitting the Webpage to the second computer; anddisplaying the Webpage at the second computer.