Circles Unable to be shared to When not a member

[Shinrai]

When a user is not part of a circle they are unable to share to a circle. If they can view the circle from the apps/circles page they should be able to share to that circle.

[ArtificialOwl]

Unfortunately, sharing to a circle should only be possible to members

[Shinrai]

I disagree. If you can visibly see the circle you should be able to share to it.

Unlike groups you can see a circle and it can be visible to you without you being a member of that circle.
Per the module itself:

Anyone can find the circle and request an invitation; but only members will see who's in it and get access to shared items.

[Art4]

I would like to see this happen. My use case is the following: My organisation has self-organized teams. Now the management should be able to share a folder/calendar with Team_A without being member of Team_A.

[ypatios]

I am also for this feature. Circles have several setting options; this could be one more for users to decide if they want to offer users to share resources with a circle if they themselves aren't a member of that circle. It is undoubtedly a very common use case at our institution.

[ArtificialOwl]

This will not be implemented, because it is out of scope and will generate so much technical debt.
I tried to work on a solution but it generate too many exception case in the flow of the code.

However, you can still:

• Create a new Circle (Circle A),
• Invite in 'Circle A' the Circle you want to be able to share,
• share to Circle A.

Users from the sub-circle will have access to files shared to Circle A.