Hi David,

Right now it is not possible to re-post someone else's items in a way other than sharing a public link (available next to the social networks sharing options). Every item that is posted on Totara Social can have a unique set of permissions attached to it. The case where you can view something doesn't mean that everyone else can too. Is it possible that some item was shared with you only and the author would prefer it to stay that way. Allowing to re-share without original author's permission is not something we would like to add to the system, while public URL is added only when the author agrees that their post can be shared in other places.

I definitely see that we can do a better job of showing more information about the local URLs posted in a status update. I will file an enhancement request for that.

Yuliya