Customer Portal and Optional Login

Customer Portal and Optional Login

Hi,

Zoho Creator looks like amazing product in many ways, with clear and properly written guides and tutorials, well done! However, I have studied the eBooks, looked into this community, watched YouTube videos and browsed the Internet, but unfortunately I didn't find a solution for my need.

I would like to create Event Management portal, where customers could browse the events and also create them. Browsing events and buying tickets should be possible without signing-up, because if sign-up is required, I very much afraid the potential customers won't do that. Ideally, the customer would land on the view shown on the screenshot and be able to find event and buy a ticket. Only if the customer wants to create an event, he/she would need to login into the customer portal (blue Login-button added on the upper right corner of the screenshot for the illustration).

To my understanding it's not possible to bypass Customer Portal login/sign-in, is this correct? Alternatively, I could create a simple landing web page, where I could have a "Login"-button to allow login to Event Management application. On that simple landing web page, I could also have an iFrame for which I could publish the events from the application. But I afraid this approach would not really work, because the customer should be able to browse those events and buy tickets without logging in, I don't think all this would work inside that iFrame?

In case some one has a solution for similar use case, I would be happy to hear about it :)
Zoho Creator and Event Management