YTD calculation: shows total not YTD?

[#1]

I am trying to get a YTD calculation to work.

I used examples here:

YTQ, QTD, MTD and WTD

However, it always returns the TOTAL SUM so if I just do SUM(MySalesField) it gets the same result as:

Sum({$<Date = {'>$(=Max(([Fiscal Year](Date)))) <=$(=Max(Today()))'}>} [MySalesField])

or

SUM({$<[Calendar Date] = {'>=$(=YearStart(Today()))<=$(=MonthEnd(Today()))'}>}[MySalesField])

I am not really sure how to parse that.

What I would expect is that with no calendar applied to the visualization I would just get YTD for sales for this current year (2016).

That isn't happening though, I am getting total of ALL sales.

Thanks!

[#2]

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