ordering bars in bar chart

Dear Power BI Community, 

This is my first message to this group (which I use a lot as a help when I have a problem) so I hope I'll able able to post to the right place and the right manner so that maybe someone is able to help me  🙂 

What do I want to achieve ?

I have a simple bar chart and I need an another ordering of the bars: open // open to recruitment //closed to recruitment - in follow-up // closed, follow-up complete // completed.

the chart with wrong order

What did I do ?

So I created a new numerical variable Project_Status_Order which has the correct order (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) by status. See below the same graphic witht the legend.

the legend is the order I need

And I did try to apply the following procedure (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-sort-by-column) , and especially the part on "Select which column to use for sorting" which seems very straightforward but for a reason that I do not understand, is not working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, there must be something I don't see... 

the procedure how to sort by a loumn - why is this not working ?