Changelog: Add documentation hovers to dashboard widget properties

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Summary

A new feature has been merged into the main langfuse repository that adds hover documentation to widget properties in the dashboard. This enhancement improves the user experience by providing in-context descriptions, types, and units for views, metrics, and dimensions when configuring dashboard widgets.

Details

• Feature: Adds hover documentation to widget properties (views, metrics, dimensions) in the dashboard's widget configuration form.
• UI/UX: Introduces a new WidgetPropertySelectItem component that displays a hover card with property details (description, type, unit) for each selectable item.
• Data Model:
  • Adds description, type, and unit fields to dimensions and measures in the data model (dataModel.ts, types.ts).
  • Updates view declarations to include descriptions.
• Affected Files:
  • web/src/features/query/dataModel.ts
  • web/src/features/query/types.ts
  • web/src/features/widgets/components/WidgetForm.tsx
  • web/src/features/widgets/components/WidgetPropertySelectItem.tsx (new)
  • web/src/features/query/server/queryBuilder.ts
• User Impact:
  • Users can now hover over widget property options to see helpful documentation, making it easier to understand the available data fields and configure widgets accurately.

Reference

• Merged PR #6856 in langfuse/langfuse

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