By default, the Swaption Volatility Surface opens with your default market data source setting. This is the source set via the Settings window > Default Settings tab > Market Data Source dropdown list, and not the market data source setting as defined in the pricing page from which you have opened the Swaption Volatility Surface window.
In the Volatility Surface you can always see which rates you are using, even if you only have one market data source. You see this via the Market Data Source dropdown list.
In addition, if you have access to multiple market data sources rates and you have permission to toggle between those sources, you can also manually change the market data source currently used for the page for the current session using the Market Data Source dropdown list.
In the Volatility Surface, if you choose to use your own rate feed for the volatility surface, if any data needed for this page is missing from your rate feed the following rules apply:
Within a currency, if you provide swaption volatility rates for some of the tenors and not for all of them, SD calculates the data for the empty tenors based on the data you have provided.
Within a currency, if you do not provide swaption volatility rates for any tenors SD uses its own market rates for all tenors.
For more information see Changing the Market Data Source.
To change the market data source in the Swaption Volatility Surface:
In the Swaption Volatility Surface in the Market Data Source dropdown list select a different source. The page is updated using the data from the selected source.