Certain views and dialogs in FotoStation let you choose metadata fields from a dropdown list. This is the case with the data mining feature and Search dialog, among others. If you only need certain fields in these dropdown lists, you can remove the fields you don’t need by selecting Drop down menu filter in the Metadata node in the configuration window. Clear the fields you don’t need to access to. This makes the dropdown lists shorter so that it’s easier to select the field you want to use.