Forum Moderator cannot edit/delete forum posts due to inaccessible input format

even with all the permissions, it would still not allow the forum moderator to edit/delete any forum posts

Please follow the procedure that was displayed when you created this issue.

The Forum Moderator role is not created until it's actually needed. Define some users as moderators and you should see it again.

Yes, DNA is Devel Node Access. It's the right information, but it's scaled down and I can't read it (nor zoom it).

Please attach it here in the queue.

'authenticated user' is a role — I hope you haven't actually created a user with that same name. This would cause unnecessary confusion.

I have given a user by the name of "authenticated user" the "Forum Moderator" privileges thus they have the forum moderator role.

Your terminology is completely mixed up, I don't understand what you're trying to say. 'authenticated user' and 'Forum Moderator' are roles. You cannot "give" one to the other. Please state on which page (URL) you did what.

Joe is denied Update access because he's not allowed to use the input format of node/10 — you see this near the bottom of the screennshot.

Technically, Joe would be able to delete, but because he can't get to the edit page, he can't reach the [Delete] button.

In addition, you've given Joe a role with the administer nodes permission, so for him, Node Access is bypassed completely, anyway. You'd get the same behavior if you removed FA, CA, and ACL.

BTW, the first table should be color-coded, like admin/reports/status. Apparently, your theme hasn't implemented the appropriate classes.

So 'Joe' has the 'authenticated user' role.

I call this user 'account' — he has nothing but a bare account on the site.

We add 'Joe' as a moderator for the forum container at admin/content/forum/edit/container/6 and save the page.

Being Moderator for a container gives you only View and See ("Moderators receive all grants above"), which is what you'd usually have even without being Moderator. The grants are NOT inherited, so this probably does not what you think it does.

We are running the "content access" module on the site as well so we have unchecked all boxes for 'anonymous user' and 'authenticated user' at admin/content/node-type/forum/access. We also leave the "Give content node grants priority" value at zero.

You could set priority to -1 and save a little performance, with the same result.

We go to the user permissions page at admin/user/permissions. Forum Moderator has access to the following:

access content
administer nodes
access comments
administer comments
post comments
post comments without approval
create forum topics
delete any forum topic
delete own forum topics
edit any forum topic
edit own forum topics

Did you assign all those permissions? You shouldn't do that. The only thing you're allowed to do with the Forum Moderator role is to rename it. Please delete the role and let FA recreate it. I recently updated the -dev version so that you cannot change the Forum Moderator permissions anymore. Please update to the new Forum Access — it should provide better guidance.

We check the forum masquerading as user 'Joe'. 'Joe' cannot edit any posts.

As mentioned near the top, this has nothing to do with node access.

We then check the 'Joe' user at admin/user/user/list however he has not been assigned 'forum moderator' as a role. We manually assign him the 'Forum Moderator' role but 'Joe' still cannot edit any forum posts.

The Forum Moderator role is assigned temporarily by Forum Access and removed again a fraction of a second later during the same page load. You should not assign it to any user.

When FA creates the Forum Moderator role, it displays the following message:

Forum Access has created a new role named 'Forum Moderator' and given it the 'administer nodes' and 'administer comments' permissions. This role is used internally by Forum Access. You can change the name of the role as you like, but you must keep it unmodified otherwise.

I was hoping that this would make it clear that the Forum Moderator role should be left alone, but I should have known better (you're not alone, of course). The current -dev version tries very hard to keep you from messing with it. Please update FA and tell me what you think.

Why does your title say "cannot create"? Are you sure Joe cannot create? DNA says he can...

We are using 'User Protect' and 'Permissions Lock' so this will allow us to stop our clients from assigning any users to the 'Forum Moderator' role. We haven't uploaded the -dev version yet as we weren't sure if it is production ready? Is it relatively bug free to use for the moment?

Yes, the -dev version is ready to go. I recently added one last feature, namely the ability to hide the 'Forums' menu item for users that have no access to any forums. I'm having this tested actively in RC1 of the Image Gallery Access sibling module.

Based on the experience in this thread I'll add one last thing (a hook_update_NNN() function to remove any Forum Moderator role assignments) and I expect to release IGA 1.0 and FA 1.1 in about a week.

I don't know those modules. FA is now making a reasonable effort to guard the Forum Moderator role, but there are contrib modules that provide additional ways to process roles and users, and it's not possible to guard against these.

Why does your title say "cannot create"? Are you sure Joe cannot create? DNA says he can...

You changed this on post #4, there was never a problem with creating posts, it was originally because I overlooked the message that clearly says FA will create the 'Forum Moderator' role when a user is made a moderator.

Oops, I meant to write 'delete' — fixed.

Thanks for your kind words.