Autofill date in PDF form created in InDesign CC

I am creating a form using InDesign CC which I will convert into an interactive PDF. I would like it to automatically fill in the date into the date field and add 7 days and fill in that date into a second field. Does anyone know how this can be done?

you will have to add a respective bit of JavaScript code in Acrobat.
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