Issue: Currently if you create a Discussion and add a participant, at initial creation, it does not send a notification to the participant to let them know a discussion is there. So a user has to create a discussion, then send a separated email to tell them to go to the discussion. Also, please sort all users in the Participant Picker, to be alphabetical and searchable. Sometimes the participants list can be over thousands of users. It is very difficult to try to find who you want to add as a participant.
Downfall: This is an extra step and forces the user to have to go to an external (email) to notify the participant. If they have to create an email, they will not use Discussion where tracking can be captured, because it is an extra step. Back to emails back and forth and no transparency on a document.
Enhancement: Send an email notification to the participants added (as it does in all other areas of Windchill) at creation. This will act more like other areas of Windchill as well as get users using the tool instead of outside emails.
