Chord symbols not showing when only bottom staff visible

Dorico
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After some searching, I haven’t found a solution for this:

  • chord symbols show as normal when both staves of a multi-staff instrument (piano) are showing
  • chord symbols show as normal when only the top staff is showing
  • chord symbols don’t show when only the bottom staff is showing (ie when only the bottom staff has contents, with Layout options > Vertical spacing > Staff visibility > Allow individual staves of multi-staff instruments to be hidden is enabled).

I don’t want to have chord symbols showing between the staves when both staves are showing, just would like them to appear above whichever staff is showing.

Is this the expected behavior, or am I doing something wrong or missing a setting somewhere?

EDIT: slight update - it actually sometimes work as I would expect where there are slash regions, just not with normal notation, and also sometimes even when there are slash regions

I’ve been trying to upload an example file, but unfortunately every time I open the file again to pick an example bar it behaves differently, seemingly randomly choosing whether to show or hide chord symbols each time I open the file

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As far as I have understood, in grand staff instruments it is the top staff, where things like Chord Symbols or Figured Bass Numbers are “attached” to. If you want to hide one staff of that instrument, it should be the bottom staff then. May be move music from there to the upper staff in those regions. Add a bass clef, if you wish.

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Chord symbols in general should appear above whichever staff of a grand staff instrument that is showing – but you do need to have Position of chord symbols on grand staff instruments set to Above top staff.

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Position of chord symbols on grand staff instruments set to Above top staff.

I do have that set, yeah.
I’ve been holding off uploading an example file because unfortunately I can’t reproduce the behavior consistently — it changes every time I re-open the file in question.
No worries until I can repro it!