Hi @lsbwebdesign
ACF does not have any filter that would allow you to hack into this.
Hmm… Have you tried writing a custom function that would filter out the values for you. The custom function would look something like this:
function get_user_field($field_name, $post_id, $format=false) {
$user_field = get_field($field_name, $post_id, $format);
return $user_field['user_nicename'];
}
Now when getting the user field, you would get is like this $username = get_user_field('user_field_name', 22);
Hope this helps 🙂