Judging from the description of this plug-in it is a great extension offering just the functionality I am looking for. A great review on this site lead to me downloading it and giving it a try, but that made it only a bigger deception when I simply could get it to do what it says 'on the tin'.

The instructions (a 5 line readme.txt)are simply way too limited to be even the slightest bit useful. Now that in itself would not even be a showstopper if only you get some support via the listed site. But on the site the developer continuely states that he is no longer able to devote the necessary time to rectify documentation issues and is no longer active in the Joomla community. Furthermore he cites that it "is the beauty of open source" that mods which are released under the GPL can be contributed to by those who "are unhappy with the documentation but have worked it out" by adding comprehensive documentation.

As it seems like a good extension that performs well if you have the programming know-how to understand how to implement the module without proper instructions by analysing its code, I would consider it again once there is comprehensive documentation available... For now I would not recommend using it...