IOS 8 contact sharing

My wife and I have one set of contacts which we share for family business and work. The new iOS 8 does not allow us to share contacts across different Apple IDs. Since contact sharing is so important to our lives, family, and business, most of the family sharing options are worthless to me since we cannot share contacts. Is there anyway to share contacts across different Apple IDs. Currently we are using just one Apple ID for the new iOS 8 system. That pretty much makes find my friends worthless to us.

With iOS 7 you would open your camera roll or album, select the photo you wanted, click on send as a message, then it would take you to the text screen where you could see the photo being sent as it asked you for the recipient's phone. Now when I click on send as a message it takes me to the text screen, but as you can see, the photo is not attached. Same thing with a contact…I can click on "share contact as a text message" but when it takes me to the text screen, nothing is attached.

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Hi,
It will suggest and look like it will auto-complete until you type further.
As 204 is unlikely to be the full number the issue does not arise.
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I am trying to grasp all the possibilities for consolidating my stuff and my family's stuff from multiple devices and multiple accounts from multiple sources but I cant.
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c) Store and use my Aperture Library on iCloud Drive?
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a) Have a main family shared area (on iCloud Drive i suppose) where we can share documents.
b) Sync private documents across ALL individuals devices (Available locally and on iCloud).
c) Store private documents (One instance) on iCloud drive and make them available on ALL individuals devices.
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You and I are data soulmates. I have been having this trouble for a while and have yet to get my head around it. Our problem is that we've cycled through multiple macs and the "home" or "host" for all the stuff that's now been moved or moving to the Cloud is very scattered. It drives me crazy... almost to the point where I'm thinking about starting a brand-new iCloud account and beginning from scratch.
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I have set up family sharing me husband being 'in charge' and wife 'as member'
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Except how do i do the bit where i can add some of my contacts which are saved on my macbook and phone to my wifes, not all just some as there is no sync section on iTunes?
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Out here in the South Pacific where we get intermittent Internet connectivity, with gaps of weeks, the sync issue seems to me to be more complex. For sure, some of this could well be due to configuration/preferences errors.
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